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Takahashi, in regard to our finances, and what I learned was that there is a miscellaneous
<br />Charter Commission account which has $10,000 in it. The administration forwarded an
<br />appropriation to the Finance Committee yesterday for an additional $20,000, it was heard on
<br />the agenda yesterday, and that would be just to address the budget from now until June 30th.
<br />Whatever money is not used would drop off, and then they plan on asking for an appropriation
<br />of $100,000 for the following year. There was some concern at the Finance Committee
<br />meeting because there wasn't a budget, but I think they addressed that to some degree, but I
<br />talked to Aaron Chung, the Committee Chair, and he asked me to submit a letter just, you
<br />know, basically let them know that we're -, in writing, that we're organizing right now, we're
<br />just figuring out what our budgets are going to look like, and just basically leave it at that for
<br />now. So I don't expect that'll be a problem.
<br />Let's see. We did -. We have incurred a couple of expenses, Rudy gave me the initial
<br />information on that, for letterhead and for the initial ads that were run in the paper, that I gave
<br />you a copy of, the notices, rather. Let's see. I'm trying to decide whether we want to discuss
<br />this now or in budget considerations. I guess we are going to need to decide who is going to
<br />handle or serve as somewhat of a treasurer for the organization in terms of handling that
<br />paperwork. Right now, I met with the Accounting Department, and Dixie Kaetsu agreed to
<br />just open up an informal file right now, so she's got our original, I mean these first couple of
<br />invoices which aren't ready to pay for now, and we set up a system where she'll just receive
<br />that stuff. But we are going to need to, you know, take responsibility for that.
<br />And also, Rudy gave me, or the Finance -, no the Finance Department gave me authorization
<br />signatures, so we need to decide who's going to be authorized to, you know, sign for these
<br />things, sign on the POs and basically, you know, process these funds. And the suggestions
<br />that I heard were myself, the vice chair, and our secretary, as possibilities, you know,
<br />however, you know, we want to handle that. We need to decide that and get something, you
<br />know, turned in because this has to be processed by the County; it has to go through the
<br />Finance Department and whatever, and then they have to, you know, certify names that are
<br />okay to sign off on the POs for payment and whatever. Marni.
<br />HERKES: Are we going to have one signature, number one? Number two, are we
<br />going to -, why wouldn't you have a treasurer as the signator?
<br />RAY: I think, you know, anything that the group wants to do is the way we'll
<br />do it, so I'm open -.
<br />HERKES: I wondered if you -.
<br />RAY: No, no, when I -.
<br />HERKES: Thought of a new reason here.
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