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• OLSON: But that's where my - <br />IRVINE: That's the Chair? <br />OLSON: No, that's why my proposal is that you have only nine regular voting <br />members. <br />IRVINE: Oh, the chair - <br />OLSON: The Chair only votes to make or break. <br />IRVINE: Okay. I didn't catch that. <br />OLSON: As under Roberts, right? <br />IRVINE: Okay. <br />HIGASHI: Okay, any more questions? No. Thank you Jon. <br />OLSON: Thank you. <br />• HIGASHI: Ms. Henry, do we have anybody else that has signed up to testify? <br />HENRY: No sir. <br />OLESEN: I've got one more. I remember what it was. <br />HIGASHI: No objections? <br />?: No objections. <br />OLESEN: My name is Norman Olesen. This particular one is going to take the <br />wisdom of Solomon to figure out how to do it but that's why there's two ex -Council <br />people who are on the particular Charter Commission Board and you wonderful people <br />can figure out how to make some sense of this one. It has to do with appropriations. <br />MARTIN: Excuse me, if I may. There's three ex -Council people on the - <br />OLESEN: Oh that's right, there's three. Excuse me. And it has to do with the system <br />that is in place with regard to appropriations and allocation of funding. We have a <br />very unfortunate situation where I don't think the general public is fully aware that the <br />appropriation process, in the time, let's say, of an election year, can have all kinds of <br />things thrown in there by the Council for a given district, where there's absolutely no <br />12 <br />