I understand all that, as those are principles of healthy management, but some organizational history needs to be taken into account. Administration cannot be based only on sound management principles, as in your case. You also have to take into account who you are, what you do and your mandate. In addition, you said in response to another question that the context was complex.
If we look at your actual spending compared with what you had planned for this year, we see a reduction of 7.5% in adopted budgets, and that is a fairly significant drop.
Are you relatively certain you will be able to reach that target?