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<br />TAKAHASHI: Okay.
<br />BESS: I’d appreciate receiving those.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Okay. We’ll let you -.
<br />BESS: That’s my own personal comment here. I don’t know if that’s the feeling of the Commission.
<br />IRVINE: I’ll second that.
<br />RAY: Okay. Other comments?
<br />KUROZAWA: I agree. I was going to ask you the question whether you were totally satisfied with
<br />everything here. It would be good to hear if there’s other things, little issues.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Well, a lot of the little issues, you know, we -. I guess because I’ve been on both sides,
<br />as a Legislative Auditor and as a Finance Director, I can see where there could be potential conflicts, but
<br />there’s not really a reason, you know. It’s not a frequent conflict, so, you know, I think if we, you know,
<br />people may get just confused if we try to, you know, explain that. But we can provide you a little bit
<br />more, you know, as far as, you know, the conflicts, and you decide.
<br />BESS: I would agree with you, Harry. You know -.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Okay.
<br />BESS: Those things that are really abstract that -.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Yeah.
<br />BESS: Potentially this could happen.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Yeah.
<br />BESS: That’s one category. And there are the others where, hey, this is a troublesome thing, but it’s
<br />money, so in your sense of priority, you’ve dropped it out of the list but -.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Because, you see, right now, that -, it seems like the State, you know, at the -, the State
<br />is right now placing a lot of requirements upon the counties, but yet, you know, the counties’ charters
<br />have their own little requirements, so, you know, we have some potential conflicts, but we don’t know
<br />how long the State will continue that. You know, if they drop their effort, then what happens if we don’t
<br />have anything in the Charter? You know, that’s what makes us very uncomfortable, you know, because
<br />we don’t think it will continue. We don’t think it’ll -, you know, we think eventually the thing will
<br />resolve and the process will flow again. And we think our process is okay.
<br />RAY: Okay. Marni.
<br />HERKES: I’m interested in the program budget. I firmly believe that program budgeting is the way to
<br />go. I got -.
<br />TAKAHASHI: Yeah.
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