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BETHEA: . . . on 11 . 2. The initiative and the referendum. VAN DYKE: Well , 11 . 2 in the version I have says it ' s deleted. BETHEA: Oh. VAN DYKE: Deleted in 1982. BETHEA: Then I have an old copy of it. VAN DYKE: The version I got out of our library simply has a couple pages inserted with a new chapter. . .new Article 11 , 11 . 2 deleted. OMONAKA: It ' s on the last page (inaudible) . BETHEA: Oh, yeah. There ' s an insert here. VAN DYKE: Was this a major issue in 1982 or was this . . . OMANAKA: It had to do with. . . originally the Charter did not go by for initiative on things such as budget , so I think the initiative changes that . . .you can allow an initiative on the budget (inaudible) . VAN DYKE: Has there been any such initiatives? OMANAKA: Only to change the Charter (inaudible) . VAN DYKE: But since ' 82 , have there been any budgetary initiatives? In California, of course. . .there' s been plenty of budgetary initiatives that . . .having to do with taxes and so on, which are. . . created a lot of chaos and so, I think that limitation was put in simply because budgetary matters tend to be the sort of things that seem to lend themselves better to the legislative give-and-take, whether (inaudible) totally up or down situation on an initiative. So, this is a definite. . . I don' t know what the percentage of the vote was , but it must be something that is faithfully foreclosed by that election. Of course, you may want to reconsider. OMANAKA: One other question. BETHEA: There were something like 40 or 50 initiative items on the last California budget. I would just make a general comment to the commission. How many people here can remember the items that were on the ballot of the last election? You know, it shows that. . . I mean, if you had to sit down, you all looked at it , probably some of you understood it maybe at the time, but you can' t remember it now. 114