Constantly trimming down the university employees, whether it is faculty or administration... I don't see how you can say that that is directly going to increase productivity when you load everyone else up with more work.

We were only talking about the tax collector position as a last resort. It's not like that's the direction we're moving to.

Basically, the academic units are running as lean as they can. We've already cut everything we can cut.

There are still some points of disagreement we need to iron out.