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are recovering through user fees, and those would also include other sources of income including grants. There is a new category called PSA SMA, and those are the transfers in as service management agreements with some of the other departments. That's how each traditional budget is still in the ordinance and still funded, but we are paying professional service agreements or service management agreements to get corporate level support. On the expense side, facilities and grounds is the largest portion of our expenses. The overall budget review and the changes this year are pretty basic. Healthcare, the mayor's desire to increase the minimum wage, and some new compliance we have to do with the Department of Labor in overtime rules accounts for many of the changes. Committee Chair White asked in terms of the interfund allocations, how much of that additional cost goes back to IT? Mr. Perri responded $600,000. Committee Chair White stated that most of that $700,000 is for IT. She asked if Mr. Perri has been told what they are receiving for that, or is that just maintaining what they have in terms of IT? Mr. Perri stated that is a charge that we have historically been responsible for as a department. IT was covered outside of the City, and now this year they are asking each department to take on that responsibility. It is based on the number of employees, phones, and computers in the department. They'll take care of all of the backbone infrastructure, and it has removed the internal IT people, centralizing it. Committee Chair White asked if he sees the budget being reduced as everything becomes more centralized, and we have also spoken to the point of needing to make sure you have the support to do the things you are talking about. If you do not have the financial support to do those things, it is very difficult to come back and say this is what you need. Mr. Perri stated that the new duties they are talking about taking on, right now they are talking about what they need to accomplish those. In terms of the groups that are coming together here, there is not a lot of cost savings that we are looking at. By putting people together, we're able to get those additional positions that we haven't been able to get in the past. We'll be able to become more efficient. We can't approach it as though we are saving money, we are redeploying the resources in a more effective manner. Committeemember Regina Williams- Preston asked if we are going to say that we need to make sure we are retaining, are we actually increasing salaries because of different responsibilities. Mr. Perri stated that the scenario is true. In terms of the top, there is no assumption, we're in the middle of our Teamsters negotiation, so we didn't want to put anything in there so there wouldn't be a shift after the budget negotiations. 19