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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 17 of 41 <br />YOSHIYAMA: Right? Do you have any comments on an operating budget, capital budget that goes <br />biennial, you know, two years? <br />TAKAHASHI: Okay, during my time as Legislative Auditor. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Yeah. <br />TAKAHASHI: I prepared legislation to do biennial budgets, but subsequent to that, I think there’s a <br />conflict with State law. State law requires us to be on an annual. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Oh, okay. <br />TAKAHASHI: You know, fiscal budget. Corp. Counsel pointed that out to me. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Okay. <br />TAKAHASHI: So that’s when we, you know, we dropped that idea. But it would make sense because <br />we spend a lot of time on budgeting and, you know, like the legislature, they go to a biennial budget. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Right. <br />TAKAHASHI: And the second year would just be supplemental. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Yeah. <br />TAKAHASHI: You know, that makes a lot of sense. But yet, since they pointed out the conflict, we <br />kind of -. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Conflict meaning like -. <br />TAKAHASHI: Let it go. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Prohibition from going multi-year? <br />TAKAHASHI: No, it -, the conflict meaning it’s specified what our fiscal year should be. So, you know, <br />I mean they had a dissertation on why -. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Yeah, okay. <br />TAKAHASHI: We couldn’t do it. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Thank you. <br />RAY: Okay. Questions? <br />SANTANGELO: Harry, did we ever -? <br />RAY: John. <br />SANTANGELO: Then subsequently lobby them or anything? Was there any dialogue in terms of <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-19-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />