. >> i would like to see howitt done at the retirement board. i'm sure they may hire somebody. but i think it's important -- >> we can't hear you guys. >> i think it's important considering what happened. some thing that happened last year. is it didn't seem to be clear that the tou actuarial didn't seem to be clear. >> i hope we are searching for respond environments to the rfp and one of them is that the actuarial is a key resource for that to happen. we do not have the brain power, the expertise, the level of underring of the requirements that actuarial insights and professional services provide. so we rely very heavily on the guidance that is provided by the du actuary. that they have an accountability to the board as well as to the staff of the hss system. and i realize that that accountability may manifest itself in different ways in different times but there is an accountability to both unities. i also want to be very, very clear that there need to be -- by whoever the responsents are to this, confidence and expertise and it's not to be, in my view, some sort of ad hoc c

so you can see over here the top, on the year-over-year, and the chart here, that we have -- howitt increased and then the administrative budget. last year 11.1 million and now 11.4 million. that is of course increases in salary benefits of course. we do a lot of with the small staff and i think this particular meeting and included in this annual report you are able to see with about 50 employees we do quite a bit of work. there's always room for improvement and i'm hoping with the onboard of the new director we can go through some potential new thing that we can look into as far as helping the staff or improving the staff. as we go down to the next section on the overview, when we talk about the overall trust fund contributions in our overall payout we are looking at $147 million. this was a fiscal year number. so this is the end of 2017 fiscal year. and last year it was about 800 million. if we go to the right, in the other section, the next section to it, you will see that some thing that i've spoken about before, operations we did over 14,000 manual transactions and we helped about 77,000