Sounds like a great number, right? How much money is actually, you know, available for things like ECS when you account for, hey, Medicaid's going up, raises salaries. Yeah, right. So That billion dollars does get consumed by a lot of our fixed costs. Fixed costs being personnel, debt service, Medicaid, other types of major programs. So I don't know the total, the final number offhand, but it's not $1.3 billion. Even though we have that room in our growth under the constitutional spending cap, we know it's going to get consumed by a lot of our fixed costs. (13:38–13:47)
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