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virtually impossible for the general public to perceive what ' s going on to respond to what ' s happening; because the data is very difficult to obtain in a timely fashion. And there' s so much data, it ' s very difficult to review with that short period of time. And if the Council is truly representing the public, the public should have a meaning- ful opportunity to respond and I know the Council is not happy when it constantly goes to outlying districts because not too many people come to the public hearings . The difficulty is it ' s very difficult to make a responsible statement , because you don' t have the data, which (inaudible) in Kona. JUVIK: Excuse me, following along that line, Mr . Mizuno, is there any reason. . . I understand the deadlines are basically written by the state Legislature in their own (inaudible) . However, the state Legislature does not provide the bulk of the money for the County. It provides obviously grants-in-aid and other sources . Is there any reason the budget process could not begin before or during. . .even before the legislative session, in which a draft budget comes . . .proposed budget is coming. . .a whole number of things in that budget are not going to change at all as a consequence of the legislative session. And it would seem to me if the draft budget could be developed and circulated and run around to the different districts and so forth, so people would get an idea of whether it ' s an annual or biannual budget doesn' t matter , where the County' s proposing to spend this money, debate these things , you know, it comes out in the paper that the County has a certain priority list of things they want to do, capital improvements and so on. Whether it ' s the mayor ' s proposal , the County Council (inaudible) share where this came from, they' re not really vague. . .doesn' t seem like. . . seem like they' re not (inaudible) that strong in the community. And I agree with. . . that (inaudible) up on districts , probably you don' t get much chance to input the public anymore. Is there any reason that you couldn' t develop a fairly substantial budget proposal much earlier in the year with the Council , review it with the public, and obviously, they' re are gonna have to be some blanks in there for state, legislative input , capital projects and so forth. But it would give it. . . I think it would be easier to finish the budget obviously by just plugging in these new numbers that come out of the state Legislature, rather than sit around and wait until they finish, and go into an extra session or whatever. So, what do you think' s the matter? MIZUNO: First of all , we don' t wait around . . . JUVIK: No, I know. I understand, I 'm sorry. 263