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in there an addition where or restoring the original amount. The Mayor cannot add <br />more but he can at least put back what existed prior, so he can voice his objection. <br />RAY: Is everybody clear on that? <br />TAKAHASHI: Example is the Council deleted all vacant positions, funding for <br />vacant positions. How would the Mayor say I object to that? There's no way. <br />BESS: One of the things that I see they could do, if they put those funds in <br />the Council's budget, he could delete the Council budget without putting it back into <br />his, so there wouldn't be any funding, period, but that wouldn't carry out his intent to fill <br />those positions, I agree. <br />IRVINE: But it might mean that the Council wouldn't do that sort of thing if <br />he had just vetoed their amendment. <br />TAKAHASHI: What it amounts to, actually, is they literally can hold the Mayor <br />hostage by deleting a lot of funding proposals and placing it in their budget, and in the <br />course of the year, the Mayor would be required re -approach the Council. <br />IRVINE: But he has line -item veto. If they put it in their budget, he can - <br />• TAKAHASHI: He can veto that but then there's no appropriation. <br />IRVINE: Right. <br />TAKAHASHI: So whatever program he had proposed does not occur any way, so <br />he has no way of objecting to that deletion. <br />BESS: With regard to this particular problem, was the matter brought up <br />with the Corporation Counsel? <br />TAKAHASHI: Yes. <br />BESS: And his opinion was that they did something in violation of the <br />separation of powers? <br />TAKAHASHI: He didn't go - <br />BESS: The Council is grabbing money for positions that are not Council <br />positions and maybe involved with the administration of County government. So how <br />can they possibly do that? 1 just think that there's a legal problem here and I'm amazed <br />that nobody took it to court? <br />27 <br />