she sat at the desk and laid the thick print-out she had been carrying on top of the one that had been left on her desk.of the original five hundred volunteers , there were two hundred and forty three requiring disaster control contact.she was sure she had already spoken to many of them , but now she would be contacting them.the maximum figure she was authorized to offer any one person was ten thousand dollars and that was only after a lot of negotiating.some of the volunteers would not be expecting any compensation at all , but of the ones who did , she was instructed to begin at twenty-five hundred dollars .