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[one is] especially grateful for the teams’ commitment to retain jobs; nothing could be more important in the current economic environment. We have made every effort to reduce our staffing by eliminating currently vacant positions or positions that will become vacant because of an upcoming voluntary retirement. Regrettably, we will not be able to achieve the necessary deficit reduction without the elimination of some staff positions through layoffs. Decisions about exactly which positions will be phased out will be made by senior officers in the coming weeks now that the final budget parameters have been established by the [people who decide].