In step 1 you have five options you can mark.

• Description: Enter the description of your scenario in this box so that it can be distinguished form other scenarios you analyze.

• Base Budget: Mark this box if you want to calculate a scenario using a Base Budget. Unmark this box if you want to calculate a scenario using a Yearly Budget.

• Use Percent of Budget: Mark this box if you want to use a Percent of the budget for determining budget dollars allotted for Preventive Maintenance treatments and/ or the Budget Increase factor. Unmark this box if you want to use an Actual dollar amount for determining budget dollars allotted for Preventive Maintenance treatments and/ or the Budget Increase factor.

• Excess Rehab Funds Added to PM Funds: Mark this box if you want the excess funds left over from the Rehablitation treatments budget to be added to the funds available for Preventive Maintenance treatments. The Rehabilitation funds will be added to the Preventive Maintenance funds after the Rehabilitation treatments have been applied to qualifying sections. Unmark this box if you do not want excess funds left over from the Rehablitation treatments budget to be added to the funds available for Preventive Maintenance treatments.

• Stop Gap Funds Taken from PM Funds: Mark this box if you want Stop Gap Funds to be subtracted from the available Preventive Maintence funds. Unmark this box if you do not want Stop Gap Funds to be subtracted from the available Preventive Maintence funds. Marking this box will cause the funds alloted for Preventive Maintenance treatments to be reduced. Unmarking this box will cause the Stop Gap cost to all be unmet costs, but Stop Gap treatments will still be applied to qualifying sections according to the Stop-Gap Application Interval you specify in Step 3.