. >> clerk: item 9, hss financial reporting as of december 31, 2017, pamela levin. >> pamela levin, chief financial officer, the report in front of you summarizes the actual revenues and expenses of the employee benefit trust fund and the general fund administrative budget through december 2017 as well as the fiscal year ending projections for june 30, 2018. in terms of the trust, we always start with what the fund balance was as of june 30, 2017, and that was 72.5 million, based on six months. we are projecting a year-end balance of 71.3 million, which is about 1.7% change. we continue to see unfavorable claims experiences for the medical plans and favorable claims experience for the dental plan. we received 2.3 million in pharmacy rebates from blue shield and 300,000 from united health care, and we are projecting a savings in the $3 budget, the health care sustainability fund. no performance guarantees have been received thus far and we have approved two additional reimbursements with the adoption surrogacy assistance plan, brings the total span since inception, $78,000. amount of -- an