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<br />RAY: Okay.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: That they’ve given us.
<br />RAY: Right.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: They did a lot of work.
<br />RAY: Okay. Thank you. All right. Why don’t the minutes reflect that I’ll send a letter of thanks to them
<br />for, you know, helping us with that process.
<br />So I think we’ve handled the office space category, as well. Seven C, Budget Considerations, you know
<br />we, there again, until we get into the actual, you know, scope and where we’re going to go with this
<br />thing, it’s going to be hard to discuss budgets. I do have the budget breakdown here for the 1990 Charter
<br />Commission that I’ll pass around, and I want to reflect that I also have the breakdown, the detailed
<br />breakdown of those expenses that we have in the file here, so this gives an exact breakdown of -, a
<br />detailed breakdown of these expenses. Okay, so this is the 1990. Does anybody think -? I put this on
<br />here so that I could give you this information. The other thing that occurred to me, you know, we are in
<br />the middle of the budget process. We are, you know, as I mentioned, the administration has got
<br />$100,000 appropriation into the works, you know. The budget is just in process, so if we wanted to, you
<br />know, modify that or have any input, there is still time. You know, it’s getting kind of late in the game,
<br />but I wanted to, you know, throw that out there.
<br />SANTANGELO: The one input I’d like to give, Mr. Chairman, and you and I both agreed when we
<br />worked together that getting information out to the public was one of the hardest things that we dealt
<br />with on the Council. And it’s been the -, it’s been prevalent in the conversation among other
<br />Commissioners here of rectifying that. So I would like to see this budget reflect, with the input of all
<br />Committee members, some attitude towards this informational position of whatever it is, but getting the
<br />facts out to the public, getting their input, and getting, you know, just communicating with the public is
<br />really important to me and I don’t see it in this ‘90 budget, and I just wonder how other people feel
<br />about that.
<br />RAY: Yeah, I think it’s difficult to tell. There’s more detail in this, but, you know, you’re correct, and as
<br />part of our, you know, report on communications, we’re going to give you some information in terms of,
<br />you know, hiring a public relations, you know, person to help with this effort. But you’re right, it’s not
<br />well included in terms of the budget here.
<br />HERKES: Advertising?
<br />RAY: That advertising -.
<br />HERKES: Eighteen thousand dollars?
<br />RAY: I think that advertising, the bulk of it, is just advertising the meetings.
<br />SANTANGELO: Good Lord.
<br />HERKES: That’s a lot of money.
<br />RAY: Well, there were -.
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