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money. And as a result , the budget has different , what you call , line items : equipment , maybe salary & wages , contractual services, and various different categories of classifications . And the practical problem is sometimes as you know, even in your everyday living, it ' s hard to project to the exact number. If you say that you' re going to buy a car for a $100 and you go out there , and the car costs $105, now you only got a $100. So the question is, should you go back to Council and get the $5 appropriated? And you can hear it from department heads. They 'll tell you the Council will be busy 365 days a year, because every one penny , or two cents , or five cents over, if you take the strict interpretation, then you ' ll have to go back to Council every time, which would certainly hamper the administration ' s operation. But on the other hand, now the Council certainly has a right, and we haven' t litigated it. But I always felt , and I'll tell you frankly , as corporation counsel, we haven' t had the right case, but if the Council say had appropriated $100 for a car, and the administration went out and bought $200. Now, I think now, that much we all can see , well, if I knew it was $200, we wouldn' t have appropriated the money and certainly maybe now the Council should have the say in whether or not the administration to. . . spend the money for that particular purpose. And so the question is how much over, should the administration go back and get Council ' s approval. Well, the. . .that section which says the mayor may transfer, that ' s the authority that not only myself as corp. counsel took, but in reviewing. . .before rendering another opinion, I reviewed all the opinions from the first corp. counsel which cited that language which would authorize the mayor to transfer. However, there is another provision, Mr. Bethea, that you may see being inconsistent which is because there is. . .in order for. . . JUVIK : Excuse me, Ron. Which provision are you looking at? IBARRA: Yeah. 10-11. 10-11. Okay. The first one was 10-9, the second paragraph that says the may may at any time, if you have unincumbered appropriations (inaudible) you may transfer. Then if you look at 10-11, no payment shall be authorized or made and no obligation incurred against the County except in accordance with appropriations duly made. So now Council ' s position certainly is a, you came to us , we appropriated money, $100; that ' s it. So why are you transferring money against this provision? GREENWELL : You and a number of the Councilmen have a difference of opinion. IBARRA : Well. . . but. . .that ' s the. . . GREENWELL: It is value. 77