Thank you for the question.
From Public Works' perspective, the focus will remain on delivering core activities, while focusing on priority-setting and containing the growth to a reasonable level. We know that the budget freeze is about generating efficiencies, and not necessarily a hiring freeze. So for Public Works we took a few measures.
I'm going to start with travel management, travel hospitality, and conference management. Two years ago the total spending in those categories was $35.9 million. Last year we achieved a reduction of about 34%. The expenditures were a little less than $24 million. On hospitality alone, the reduction was 50%, so we went from $453,000 to $233,000.
As the CFO, I monitor those expenditures on a monthly basis and report to the deputy management team.