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We have on the expenditure side we are living within budget. Youll see that we have a projected 16. 6 million favorable variance in salary and Fringe Benefits so were coming in below budget by 16. 6 millions. That is due to a couple of things. We have a couple units that are under their budgeted agent census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco gene ....
Census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and registry, so thats not whats driving these savings. Its the units below census and the other positions we are having trouble back filling, which are things like our information technology, weve ha ....
Up by about another 6 million so that has made laguna honda project to end the year in a more positive financial bottomline. In the other divisions you see essentially similar outcomes to what weve seen in the past. We continue, although we did fix the structural budget issues at San Francisco and general and laguna honda. We still do have some issues at the other divisions and you cant to see a little bit of personnel cost variance in those divisions thats been historical and were going to try to chip away at that over time in the coming budgets. So again, not a whole lot of big changes compared to what youve seen before, but we are really in a place where were watching the big federal dollars carefully and watching our enrollment information carefully to try to narrow down some of the uncertainty about where were going to be coming into the coming year and refine our projections, but were in a much better place than we were in th ....