No, we put it mostly into paying down the pension. Okay, so basically on the margin we're still faced the following year with those same kinds of painful choices. The Appropriations Committee has the payment schedule. I've been told that this was the worst year, that it'll start to ramp down so it's not going to get any worse. But that payment has been issued eating up any increase in revenues. Between that, the school payments and Medicaid, there hasn't been money to do anything else. (15:37–15:53)
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