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minutes 12-08-99Page 3 of 31 <br />BESS: No, I understand. I’m trying to get away from an amendment of the Charter, and to argue that we might be able to do <br />it by ordinance. <br />YUEN: I don’t know. I think what’s happened is that Corp Counsel has always been very cautious about doing that, simply <br />because it’s not absolutely clear, and then you want the contract to be official, and rather than worry about it, just go ahead <br />and have the Mayor sign it. Is the Mayor still signing Section 8 housing contracts? <br />TAKAHASHI: Yes. <br />YUEN: I think that’s actually the biggest group of contracts, like mass group of contracts. These are housing subsidies that <br />are signed between the County and landlords, and there are a lot of those, like in the hundreds. Apart from those, I think that <br />probably - how many contracts is it? Is it really a major thing, a time consumer? <br />TAKAHASHI: Let’s put it this way. Summer Fun hires are done by contract. There’s two hundred and some odd contracts <br />that are signed by myself and the Mayor, and I sign it twice because it crosses fiscal years. You’re talking about $800. <br />SANTANGELO: Chris, when it comes to signing contracts, that’s part of the balance of power, Administrative vs. <br />Legislative. <br />YUEN: Right. <br />SANTANGELO: So, if you start putting this into ordinance, you’ve got the Legislative Branch, pretty much, crossing over <br />into an Administrative side. But with the Managing Director, who would be, again, Administrative, we might be able to deal <br />with that as the Chairman suggested. <br />YUEN: I think, even if it were possible for the Council to pass ordinances authorizing people to sign, they would have to be <br />people in the Administration except for contracts that the Council can enter into on it’s own. <br />RAY: Other questions for Harry in regard to any of his previous testimony? Gary. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Harry, you talked to us, at some point, about the crunch time with the Legislative session and the adoption, <br />or the submission, of the operating budget. Did you react to Al Konishi’s proposal regarding changing the fiscal year, and the <br />time in which the Council has to adopt the budget? <br />TAKAHASHI: No. <br />YOSHIYAMA: He wanted to, in essence, push, like, one month. <br />TAKAHASHI: I think State law provides for fiscal years for the Counties, if I’m not mistaken. <br />YOSHIYAMA: So, that was out already. Thank you. <br />RAY: Anybody else? Sue. <br />IRVINE: I guess I did have one more question on Section 13-18, still on the same page, 30. You’d mentioned claims. <br />Personal injury and property should be eliminated from this section? <br />TAKAHASHI: No, no. It should be expanded. <br />IRVINE: But what if you just take that out and just say "claims"? Maybe this is for the lawyer. <br />TAKAHASHI: Yes. I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know why specifically to personal injury and property damage, because there <br />are a few incidental claims that could well come along. <br />IRVINE: It says no action shall be maintained for the recovery of damages for any injury to persons or property by reasons of <br />negligence, etc. If you just took that out, for any injury, it wouldn’t be just property or persons, is that correct, Chris? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 12-08-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />