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B. Counter Proposal Two: "Parity and Flat-Amount Increase" The second counter proposal offered by the Union would also mirror the Sheriff's proposal with only one difference: 1. Instead of a 5% across the board raise, all bargaining unit members would receive an across the board raise of$3,550.00. See Union Ex. 4. The Union offered this proposal to accomplish parity within the bargaining unit and achieve the Sheriff's desired goal of increasing starting pay to $42,000.00. Tr. 15. See also Tr. 73. As noted previously, the Sheriff's proposal does not provide an "across the board" raise. Instead, new employees can earn as much as a 9.1% raise, while the rest of the bargaining unit receives only 5%. Those employees who would receive a 9.1% raise would receive $3,550 as a total salary increase. See Union Ex. 5 (42,500 - $38,950 = $3,550). Therefore, in order to have complete parity in the bargaining unit the Union offered its Counter Proposal Two which would provide every employee with at least one-years' experience the exact same dollar amount raise ($3,550). See Union Ex. 4. Union Counter Proposal Two did not request to increase all twenty- plus(20+)year employees to topped pay. This was because the Union recognized that this counter proposal would top-out most of the twenty-plus (20+) Deputies and get the rest within approximately$1,400 of top-out pay. Tr. 16 It is of particular note,the Sheriff's bargaining representatives never stated that their refusal to agree to the Union's counter proposal was due to the cost of the proposal. See Tr. 12, 72. In fact, the Sheriff's Office has never stated to the Union that this proposal is in excess of the total budgeted amount for salaries for Fiscal Year 2018-2019. See Tr. 13, 72-73 (Harpring: "I didn't 5 22