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duplicating reviews that occur at many, many levels to assure that there is . . . we don' t encourage any abuse of the system. BETHEA: Yep. In other words, if this. . . these really should be ors, some of them. . . ONO: Yes. BETHEA: . . .or. You. . . if the public existency will not or anyprocedure, bo that ' s of the delay, other y, pretty wide open it seems to me, that you can always go down to five and not advertise for anything. That ' s the way I would look at it . Yes. CUSHNIE: I have a question, Mr. Ono, about what is your opinion of the mayor ' s right to line-item veto? and to transfer funds within departments? Would you like to see that continue? ONO: I . . .my personal opinion on that is that the. . . I think the system the way it is now works pretty fine. The beauty about having our County Council right here is . . .you have the ability to go to the County Council and get approval of interdepartmental transfers if they're necessary. In comparison to the state, you don' t have a legislative session always there, so that perrogative is not available to you. So I think it works fine . BETHEA: Was your question to interdepartmental or intradepartmental? CUSHNIE: I believe it ' s intra, within the department . ONO: Oh, I agree that we should be able to transfer funds within the department. CUSHNIE: I think that i s the wording, if I 'm [not] mistaken. I think. . . ONO: I think I misunderstood you. CUSHNIE: (Inaudible) ; ability to transfer funds . BETHEA: Yeah, I think that was pointed out to us earlier, that there ' s some inconsistent provisions in the Charter that at some stage we need to look at. I have some more questions . In your referring to your outline, you said maximize departmental revenues with effective fiscal management. What revenues . . .what do you mean by revenues? What revenues do you receive? ONO: The sewer fund is the one that I 'm speaking 134