The magnitude was surprising and we were fairly conservative in trying to estimate the economic cost of lost labor time.

It's so much better than walking around the nursing circle trying to locate someone all the time. They're so efficient, it's hard to remember what it was like when we didn't have them.

Varner wrestled a great match. He's gotten better. But David was being conservative, trying not to aggravate an injury and he didn't, so that was good.

The labor supply was very tight last year. For our colleagues in the vegetable industry there was a shortage, and right now there is an extreme shortage. For our colleagues in raisins, there was a severe shortage. Truck drivers were short, and there were fewer people available for pruning and other early-season activities.

Labor is not the problem. They have core cost problems.

We are trying to be as conservative as possible. This is something we feel needs doing, but we want the voters' input. We'd rather have it voted down as a separate line item than have the entire highway budget voted down.