Norb spoke about the increased cost of utilities.
Salaries are also an increasing expense.
This will create a compression problem where newly hired people make the same as their supervisors who have been there longer. This applies to the hourly OPS employees. Housing is also losing talented professional staff, who could make more money in the private sector. To offset higher utility and salary costs, the projects and purchases budget was reduced to 4.1 million. Furthermore, many expenses will be reduced.