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and then I can say, if I, you know, go along the lines of what I read in some of the minutes,
<br />why? The public doesn't read "Dateline." Of course, that is not true. I don't read it every
<br />time, but I was, by accident on Sunday, you know, I read the whole paper and I read the
<br />whole "Dateline." There has to be an official notice, legal notice, and there are plenty of
<br />people who read the legal notices apart from the sports page that they may be interested in.
<br />When Mr. Legaspi tells me there was no money for an ad for this meeting, let alone the
<br />previous one, you know, but let's forget about that one, that's over, but for this meeting there
<br />was no money, then I want to tell you that you are enabled by the State law and maybe in the
<br />charter itself, I don't know, to demand money. You can say we need $25,000 for a secretary.
<br />We need $75,000 for one or two attorneys. You may get to that point, you know, I'm talking
<br />about yearly salary, and it looks like you're going to be busy for a year. If you have to make
<br />expenses, you know, in whatever way or form, you can demand money. You can tell -, Rudy
<br />Legaspi is filling in right now, so it's not personally directed at him, but you can tell your
<br />secretary or Mr. Legaspi or whoever later is appointed to deal with this, we are going to
<br />expend so much money.
<br />RAY: Henry, we do have funding, and we clarified that.
<br />ROSS: Okay.
<br />RAY: And addressed it earlier.
<br />ROSS: Okay. It's important that you know that you pull the ropes. You are
<br />not dependent, you know, on what the County gives you, because then they screw you. I tell
<br />you, you'll get plenty of static from the administration.
<br />RAY: Okay. Henry, I think we got that one in hand.
<br />ROSS: Pardon?
<br />RAY: I think we've got the funding in hand, so that's -.
<br />ROSS: Okay.
<br />RAY: Good.
<br />ROSS: But it also pertains to other things. I want to impress upon you that the
<br />charter, the County Charter is, so -to -say, the constitution of the County. It is comparable to
<br />State and Federal constitutions. It is on a smaller scale, but it is a form of constitution, so it is
<br />a very important document. And I'm just going through some things that I have already said.
<br />I must tell you that I've read the 34 pages of minutes of the previous meeting, and I was not
<br />greatly impressed, but after all, you were just starting and so on, so I hope that there was no
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