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the Council portion, not under Section 10-5. <br /> This needs to be cleared up; it ' s a dispute area <br /> between Council and administration. Council <br /> should not be able to change the operating <br /> budget later on. <br /> 3 . Section 10-8 , first sentence, does <br /> give Council an option to change the budget in <br /> case of (a) emergencies and (b) if additional <br /> revenues are available after the adoption of the <br /> budget . Mr. Carpenter feels in the latter 12. Whenadditional <br /> instance that the administration may "certify" funds are <br /> or recommend where those funds might go, i .e. in received, admin- <br /> the case of a short fall . istration should <br /> decide where they <br /> 4 . Discussion took place regarding go. <br /> "unencumbered funds" , which Mr. Carpenter said <br /> the media considered "surplus , " whereas it is <br /> not . <br /> 5. Section 10-9 , paragraph 2 - Appropria- <br /> tions . Mr. Carpenter supported the idea that <br /> administration has the right to transfer <br /> unencumbered funds within an agency or from <br /> agency to agency; he quoted: "The mayor may at 13. Re-define that <br /> any time during the fiscal year transfer part or may can transfer <br /> all of any unencumbered appropriation balance I funds within <br /> between classifications of expenditures or departments or <br /> programs within an agency or executive agency; within agencies. <br /> and if at any time the may so requests in <br /> writing, the council , by resolution effective <br /> immediately upon adoption, may transfer, part or <br /> all of any unencumbered appropriation balance <br /> from one agency or executive agency to <br /> another. " He interprets this to mean the mayor <br /> initiates it and it can be done without Council <br /> approval , but that Council needed to be <br /> advised. This language needs cleaning up. <br /> 6 . Section 10-11. Chairman Bethea said <br /> part of the previously mentioned conflict is <br /> based on this section also, which needs <br /> clarifying. Mr. Carpenter pointed to one <br /> sentence that says if you incur an obligation <br /> which has not been appropriated, that is cause <br /> for dismissal , reminding the Charter Commission <br /> that everyone is going to take that seriously. <br /> 7. Section 10-14 - Centralized <br /> purchasing. He suggested raising the bidding <br /> 435 <br />