I am confident that salaries in the St. Tammany Coroner's office are commensurate with the credentials and work history of each member in this office. On a personal note, a significant amount of time has been dedicated to completing the new, state-of-the-art coroner's facility, which was financed by a 4-mil tax approved by voters in 2004. Over the past eight years, I have dedicated myself fully to building a facility that would stand the test of time and become a high-powered weapon in our fight against crime. Soon, we will showcase the facility that is a result of countless hours of research, meetings, planning, development, and forensic analytics. A budgeted $11 million facility could have easily ballooned to over $18 million with routine change orders, but because I personally met with many analysts, engineers, consultants, and colleagues, I was able to save significant money for the parish. The projected final cost for the new facility is approximately $7.5 million. It is smart business to employ approximately $36,000 over six years of fact-finding to save no less than $3.5 million and upwards to $10 million.