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BETHEA: Contingency funds? Is that a special fund? INOUYE: You need to find an area to appro. . .to put some money in if you' re going to amend the budget , if you ' re going to take out some funding from a program in a department and you need to put it somewhere. A creation of a fund has . . .you have to put that money somewhere if you don' t want to expand it . BENNETT: What do you mean, like a bond fund, highway fund, sewer fund , general fund? INOUYE: Let ' s see if we want to save 10 . . . let ' s see our recommendation comes out from our Finance Committee for instance, I ' d say. For instance, let ' s say $1 million dollars this fiscal year. But you gotta go put that million dollars somewhere. So you can create a special fund. That ' s how I would read it. Because you need to balance your budget. POPPE: Presumably, this clause was put in at some point . . . INOUYE: I don' t know. POPPE: . . .and not in the last couple of years for contingency. Because the Charter obviously was done longer ago than that . May I ask that we review the discussion of the last Charter Commission and see if that ' s when it was put in and, if so, what the discussion was? UNKNOWNN: That would be an excellent job for the counsel. BETHEA: Right . Because I did read this . I 've got it written down that I didn' t know what it meant . Except that I can remember the Council appropriated something, but then they also wanted to administer it . You know, say how the funds were being spent ; do the administrative part of it . That was my recollection. But . . .well , we 've taken a lot of time on a very important topic. Are there other questions or observations from the commission members? What we will do at this time then. . . thank you very kindly for your presentation. We' ll very much appreciate it if you will follow through in writing as we. . . commission members have suggested with four specific subjects about this very important topic (inaudible) (Break) 280