From the transcript

But if there are issues and they understand those specific issues, then they usually make that part of the proposal change during the budget process. So we wanted to make sure that everybody was aware that the Assembly is paying attention to the overtime, that part of our budget this year is going to be the adjustment of those overtime amounts, either to make sure that the departments that do not have overtime understand that they should not be charging to overtime within their powers, and that the departments who have overtime and operate on overtime time like APD and AFD have the right amount allocated for their overtime because the overtime amounts— we don't have total numbers on it yet, but they haven't been changed in I think at least 4 years, which means that the labor rates that they're calculated on are out of date. So that's part of the overtime adjustment that you'll see as part of the budget process as well. But for the most part, everybody seems to be running this sort of similar patterns that they were at the first half of the year, except for M&O who has tightened up, but their number you see again halfway through the page, they are 100% spent on their overtime. And that is why the overtime budget was adjusted in the last assembly document that was approved to allow for additional overtime for the second half of the year.

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