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change the fiscal year, basically just a month. Give you a month more time and I can see from your answer, that's not a very appealing idea. TAKAHASHI: No. RAY: But just in terms of this whole dilemma, it effects the County, it effects agencies. You don't know what the State's going to do. TAKAHASHI: Right now, we have federal programs. Their fiscal year ends September 30 and begins October so most of those programs get appropriated during the course of the year, after we get word as to how much is coming down, so I think the system still works. RAY: You mentioned the biennium, the two year budget. TAKAHASHI: There was a proposal that was submitted to electorate and that got defeated a couple - RAY: Yes, what was that? Was that a Charter Amendment? TAKAHASHI: That was a Charter Amendment that was proposed by the Council, but I think the problem, at that time, was that, I think, people got confused because they didn't understand how it'd work. Now, the proposal that I had developed for the Council was that the County's biennium would begin during the supplemental year. You would not be tied to the State, but I think what came out of the Council at that time, was, it would be concurrent with the State, so people couldn't understand the benefit of it. It didn't make sense so it got defeated. RAY: body? Do you think that's something we should consider or explore, this TAKAHASHI: But we got an Opinion from Corp Counsel that we were not able to address that issue because of some HRS provision, so we dropped it. RAY: They can do it but we can't? TAKAHASHI: Yes. BALOG: Ask Mr. Yuen. Every attorney has a different opinion. TAKAHASHI: But they made specific reference to an HRS section. RAY: Maybe we can follow up on that and see if it's something to 34