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MS. CRAWFORD: <br /> Yes. This year, well our budgeting for a number of years has been <br />status quo and for a while it was status quo and then plus a little because maybe we <br />thought we had enough. And then it’s been status quo and then we start cutting. This <br />year we are doing a zero base budgeting, which means departments are not starting <br />with whatever they had in the current year budget and saying keep it the same. Or they <br />line by line it. It’s a lot more work for everybody. It will be a lot more work for our <br />budget because we’re centralized. Everything comes into our very small budget <br />division. But every line needs to have justification. And so, if you’re talking about, most <br />of us have very little equipment purchases anyway. But say contract services or <br />something like that, every service would be there and the justification for it so that when <br />we sit with that department and have that discussion, it’s forcing everyone to take a <br />really close look at what they need, starting from scratch. They are in that process right <br />now. The departments are working hard at developing those budgets to get them in by <br />the deadline at the end of this month. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br /> Another question. On the contract services, I think Gilbert mentioned <br />something about going through various approval process which is one of tax office, one <br />of DLIR, and so forth. Is it up to the contractor to follow through and make sure that <br />they have the appropriate approval or is there someone within your department that <br />would follow up to make sure that they have <br />MR. BENEVIDES: <br /> The responsibility is on the contractor. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br /> It is. <br />MR. BENEVIDES: <br /> We tell them in the cover letter that goes along with the contract <br />package exactly what it is that they have to provide. But the responsibility for then <br />obtaining those certificates and compliances lies with the contractor. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br /> Is there a limit or a period of time? <br />MR. BENEVIDES: <br /> We say up to 10 days, but in the real world 10 days doesn’t usually <br />work out. So we just give them a reasonable amount of time based on the <br />circumstance. Did we have other bidders that we can go rely on as a second lowest <br />bidder? So, I think the average I would say ends up being about three to four weeks. <br />From the time we send it out they usually get it back to us is a fully executed package <br />for us to, of course some of them come in a lot quicker. Some go beyond that. But an <br />average about three weeks. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br /> Thank you. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br /> I have another question. We’ve gotten a lot of comments back from <br />department heads about the departments using more video conferencing. And so it <br />may come from this department and this department, so to say various departments are <br />requesting equipment to do video conferencing, how does the county look at this overall <br />for all the departments as a policy that we’re going to do it, versus having this having <br />this very departmentalize way at looking at things? I’m also thinking of say you get a <br />request for a couple of different servers but there’s been some talk about going to virtual <br />servers, how does the county look at those sort of larger issues and not get out of the <br />12 <br /> <br />