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Council. And the budget set up , let ' s say in December, could be drastically changed by the monies appropriated to the County by the Legislature , because of there not being funds for those specific items they wanted the money for. The Legislature is just about as picky as the Council is in setting up funds for specific things . DUNCAN : I understand , Pete , you saying that the County should go with a common voice. L'ORANGE : Yeah. That ' s it. GREENWELL: Well , they do. But the thing is that the Legislature doesn' t always give monies for the purposes the County is asking for. And so the change in the budget may be a drastic one. L' ORANGE : Oh, I realize that, but when you ' re reviewing it . . .if you reviewed it together previously , the two-month time from May 1st to June 30th, you ' ve just gone over the changes because of what your referring to , you 're not having to review the whole thing in public hearing in 60 days. BETHEA: Ron , could you go on with your particular (inaudible) . IBARRA : Yes. The other provision that needs to be looked at is Section 13-13 pertaining to contracts. And. . . BETHEA : 13-13? IBARRA : Yeah. It ' s page 28 (tape change, lost some conversation) the officer of the County to be the (unclear) . I preface these remarks, as an aside. . .you may have the most ironclad constitution or charter or contract , but if the players aren ' t cooperative or follow the document , you ' re always going to have problems. Whereas if you don' t have a document and you have honorable players, I 'm not saying the players are not honorable , but you don' t have to have documents that are ironclad. But , the contract section that authorizes onlythe mayor to sign contracts on behalf of the County comes up in the situation where the Council may want to hire a consultant and the mayor may not want to sign that contract. And , so now we have a separation of powers ' conflict here. And certainly I researched this when I was corporation counsel , that I' ve always told the department heads that if the Council demands information, and the purpose of this is, you know, the contract (inaudible) mayor. But when the Council demands certain information, that the department heads should cooperate fully as far as providing Council with the information so that the Council can make policy. The biggest complaint by the Council at times is that the department heads do not share information, so how can they make policy? And they cannot get their own consultant. But even with 48