mr. haley can speak to that. our fleet of facilities are in the latter part of their life cycle and require a lot of maintenance attention. i did not put this into the key consideration, but some of our labor contracts until recently, they were scheduled monday through friday, but we need electrician's available, so they are working on weekends to provide service and that is being changed and we had a workweek monday through friday even though we had a 24/7 service delivery. we're trying to chew up our contracts to make sure we have a service delivery that is much more than monday through friday schedule. supervisor farrell: a lot of this is referring back to labor contracts and i guess -- why are we referring to those in the first place when electricians on the weekends since muni has been around. why won't -- why words those discussed before? it seems like poor negotiating beforehand. it's not an excuse to say we are just realizing these things. >> by a understanding of what happened is the e

mr. haley can speak to the number -- like operators that enter into recruitment and driving a new large difference between the number of operators to end up driving between the ones who actually initiate interest in the position. the board is receiving monthly overtime reports and their drilling down on these overtime areas. we are also working to schedule -- working to manage unscheduled absences. that increases over time needs. we have significant issues with unscheduled absences for a variety of reasons. we are trying to drill down and look at those areas. as i mentioned, we are looking at our scheduled practice and contractual requirements. for example, we are able to implement part time operators that we would see some reduction in over time because there is over time where we could staff the peak time schedule as well as local 6. when the contract comes up next, we would be looking to break away from the city in terms of our needs there. a lot of the overtime is driven not by contractual

the one piece of information that i got from john is that -- mr. haley, is that if we did not use this level of overtime we would not provide the 98% of service we are providing, it would sink to 96 pk or below level service. the bottom line is, if we don't use overtime, you are impacting service delivery. >> one additional fact i want to point out if a statistical standpoint, scheduled overtime, built into the skell jewels, built off the contract an scheduling capabilities but built off the work rules and policies in our contracts, is approximately 80% of the overtime that you're seeing here. there's actually the remain 20g% is kind of what you call management discretion or unscheduled overtime that we do have some clear day-to-day responsibility in terms of controlling. as we go through these contract negotiations, once we hopefully have a negotiated contract or arbitrated contract, that will change the rules of the game in some way in terms of overtime usage, sick leave usage, all those things that we have discussed with you as a board. >> so the mess

more than the term of the current contract, which is what i think mr. haley was speaking to. supervisor farrell: if it has been in effect for that long, it seems to be an excuse that that's the ability and that's why the overtime is so high. shouldn't that be budgeted in? right now, we're looking at not just over all, but transit operators and the transit division has basically all if not 90% of the overtime increase. it is well over 50% over budget this year. how is it -- we have known this for however many years that it's not part of what we know honor scheduling route? >> first of all, the budgeted number you are measuring as against, it is unclear to me what the assumptions were when that number was built in terms of service levels and staffing levels. in terms of the second part of your question, forget part- timers, why are you over the budget? a couple of things -- first is the number of operators we have them available to drive. our schedules as we need a 1174 operators available to put service on the street every day. when we have some number less than that, we eithe