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difficulty on the basis of your revenue forecasting from <br /> property taxes or other revenue sources that draws the <br /> County' s budget? Do you feel that we have a reasonable <br /> handle on the two-year forecast as you would on the one- <br /> year forecast? I mean, how would the forecast been <br /> (inaudible) on (inaudible) ? Does the County have a pretty <br /> good handle on it? <br /> MIZUNO: I believe we do. And I think with the new <br /> computer programs , I think, as time goes by we ' ll get even <br /> better at forecasting. So I don' t see that as a big <br /> problem. <br /> BETHEA: Mr. Mizuno, if you could bear with me and pull <br /> out your copy of the Charter there and turn to page. . . <br /> actually, the financial procedure section starts on page 16 <br /> and goes to 17 and on. I have a couple of questions about <br /> Section 10. 3 , items (a) (2) to (4) , about what is required. <br /> And it says , "and the proposed expenditures shall be shown <br /> by agencies and programs . " You see that at the end of item <br /> (2)? 10 . 3 , subparagraph (a) (2)? <br /> MIZUNO: Yes . <br /> BETHEA: Alright . And then (a) (4) , "The sums <br /> recommended for appropriation on the basis of the proposed <br /> expenditures , which sums need not be itemized further than <br /> by agencies and programs. " I assume that you' re working on <br /> the budget now. I mean, you have to have it submitted with <br /> what , 10 days after the close of the Legislature? So. . . but <br /> when it says itemized. . . shall not be itemized further than <br /> agencies and programs , that leads me to believe that it ' s <br /> not very finely broken down and yet on the other hand my <br /> understanding has been that the budget when it ' s proposed <br /> deals with very small items within particular departments. <br /> Which is the case? <br /> MIZUNO: It ' s . . . I believe over the years and now. . . I 've <br /> been in it only for four months now, but my understanding is <br /> that the budget process has now changed to a very finite <br /> type of line-item budgeting that . . . I 'm sorry, the Council <br /> has become involved in that area now, meaning very tight <br /> controls over our numbers that we submit . Am I . . . <br /> BETHEA: Yeah, you' re answering my question. Let me <br /> direct a question to Mr. Greenwell . Because I understood <br /> that you had said at our last meeting the week before that <br /> that it always had been the County Council practice to get <br /> into all the budget details . I mean, down to all . . . <br /> GREENWELL: Not to scrutinize it quite as thoroughly as <br /> they have in the last , from the experience that I 've had , <br /> 260 <br />