We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

I did my best, but fell a little short. To me, that's more important than the handshake.

We do give preference to the lower volume renter. It's simply a resource allocation. We don't have to do it too often. We prefer not to have to do it at all. The realities are of business that sometimes we have to make tough decisions.

On an annual basis, during our cycle of budget and resource allocation, we review all expenditures. The Imperial County is part of that.

I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina.

That means if you buy only what you need every week, you overspend on 13 out of 15 categories. We teach people to stockpile when things are on sale.