UOK Prioritization and Budgetary Issues Question

You are Chief of Watchamacallit Fire Protection District. You have an annual operational budget of $27 million, and annual expenditures are 97% of your operational budget. Due to increased fires in the area between Bad-Neighborhood Parkway and Get the Heck Out of Here Street, your expansion committee and local government request you build a new fire station in the area. The estimated cost of the fire station is just over $2 million. At the same time, you are understaffed by 20 fire fighters, resulting in certain companies running with only 2 people on an engine. The estimated cost of hiring, and promoting to balance the staff is $950,000. The public is up in arms over the recent string of house fires and is demanding action.