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BETHEA: That' s right. L'ORANGE . .that much in one month. BETHEA: I don' t know. . .I've tried to find out about this budget item. I don ' t know whether some of the work was done out of a pool. As you know , the Charter has a secretarial pool provision. And whether transcriptions were done, it ' s kind of off in time. That ' s why this thing is sort of uncertain. I think there ' s going to be , if we can utilize this person correctly , I think there ' s goina to be a lot of work. When we get into this work plan, then David and Patricia have volunteered with a little coercing to try to come up with a work plan along the lines that they talked about. Yes, Karolyn. NAGAO : I come out of the Mayor ' s Clerical Services Center, it ' s called and (inaudible) about that. That ' s where i come out of (inaudible) strictly clerical support for all of the mailings (inaudible) under Office of Information & Complaints. (Inaudible) think that would probably be available to (inaudible) . BETHEA: Well now, he was asking in lieu of , really , you see. NAGAO : I didn ' t know if you knew how it was (inaudible) ; that ' s why I couldn' t (inaudible) . BETHEA : Quite frankly, Pete, I didn ' t understand this at all. When I look at the volume of minutes that are. . .that we produced, they just an enormous amount of work, depending on how frequently these meetings are held. At the same time , I. . .we don ' t know over the long haul what the work load is. That ' s why it was set up as an exempt position in the Mayor ' s Office. Marie would be an employee, in effect , at-will. She wouldn ' t be subject to the usual Civil Service regulations , so that if the workload didn ' t deserve it, we can back down and look for look for something else. L'ORANGE : I 'm in favor of it, Chairman. What I 'm saying is these budget figures are way different than what ' s in place today. The Council felt they were very generous in giving us a $100, 000, but the mileage is now almost double what the mileage was, you know, at that time. The salary and wages were much higher. I (inaudible) Corporation Counsel fifteen bucks an hour or a legal counsel for fifty bucks an hour. We got to get a realistic budget. The Governor was already told by a Council member, we ' re not going to give you five cents more. BETHEA: Well, that ' s why the job is going to have to be ultimately subject to funding limitations. And I ' ve asked Akira Omanaka to start working on the budget considerations. And , as a matter of fact, he ran this down, but when I talked to people over there, no one really had a handle on it. But. . . 59