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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 19 of 41 <br />IRVINE: Okay. So everything’s split into budget and program. <br />TAKAHASHI: Program. <br />IRVINE: The other thing that it talked about in this model county charter was including the estimated <br />annual cost to maintain anything that we have in our capital budget. <br />TAKAHASHI: Yeah. <br />IRVINE: And we have that in our -. <br />TAKAHASHI: We -. <br />IRVINE: Charter? <br />TAKAHASHI: In the information that we provide to the Council, we provide not only the planning, <br />design, construction, but there is also an estimate on operations and maintenance. Departments more <br />recently have been reminded that they need to look at the operating costs, so they are now inserting <br />numbers for operating costs. <br />IRVINE: But you -, then you said that your budgets right now are a little less specific than they have <br />been in the past. I know -. <br />TAKAHASHI: Yeah, you know, like before, we would tell them how much we planned to spend for <br />supplies, subscriptions, you know, those lesser things. Right now, we will just tell them we plan to spend <br />so much money for salaries, wages, so much money for what we call other current expenses, and so <br />much money for equipment, and that’s it. <br />IRVINE: And that’s okay in the way the Charter is now? <br />TAKAHASHI: Yeah. <br />IRVINE: Okay. So, yeah, that sounds good. <br />RAY: Other questions? Steve. <br />BESS: Yeah, Harry, you’re not alone in helping us to limit the number of issues; the Mayor was here <br />earlier, and he suggested that he wanted to limit his comments to the major issues and that he didn’t <br />want to burden the public with, you know, a number of -, or confuse them with a number of different <br />issues. And I can appreciate that, not only from the standpoint of the limited amount of energy that we <br />might have as a Commission but also from the standpoint of the public. <br />But I got to tell you, you know, I am interested in knowing some of these other issues that may be minor <br />but I believe that it is the Charter Commission’s responsibility to determine what goes out to the public. <br />And I’m not asking that we get carried away with manini stuff, totally manini stuff, but I want to know <br />what those troublesome issues are and then we make the decision whether or not we ought to be <br />burdening the public or ourselves with those issues. So I guess my -, it’s a comment, but I am interested <br />in the other issues that may be there that are of lesser importance than what you put down on this piece <br />of paper. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-19-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />