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Hawaii County Council July 2, 1997 MR. WURDEMAN: I would recommend that separate and apart from the resolution, if that were the wish of the Council, that the Council commission a program review that should be independent--either in-house or bringing in professional assistance from outside. MR. TYLER: So if it's a concurrent matter that goes on in conjunction with these proposed contracts, some of which were to start on January of this year, it would also meet the spirit of the law, in your estimation? MR. WURDEMAN: I'm sorry, could you repeat that? MR. TYLER: Yes. if a separate resolution were drawn up regarding a mandatory program review, an independent mandatory program review along the lines of what you said and what appears to be intention of the maker of that amendment, that we would be in compliance with the Charter? MR. WURDEMAN• Yes. CHR. ARAKAKI: Mr. Tyler, I have drafted a resolution to do that, so I will be sharing that with you and sharing it with all the Councilmembers and see if you'll concur with a program review concept. Mr. Reynolds. MR. REYNOLDS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Wurdeman, I wanted to ask you just a couple of things. One is, in this proposed amendment regarding spending some of the funds on this program review out of this grant, it seems to me that that's a flaw that we're taking money that is designated by the Federal Government for our use and now trying to take some of it for our own use. Would you agree with that or--- MR. WURDEMAN: Well, off the top of my head, I wouldn't. I would have to take a look at the grant, the terms of the grant carefully to. MR. REYNOLDS: We asked, initially, when this all started at Committee level, for a copy of the contract because we didn't know what was in the contract from the Federal Government, and governing what was to be done. In that, it requires an audit, which, I would consider, a type of review. 14