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Hawaii County Council August 2 , 1989 a Miscellaneous account for the purpose of doing a certain thing, does that limit them from doing that? Cause they have other purposes within that account which moneys have already been "appropriated" and that ' s why I firmly believe the question of appropriation has to be answered . CHR. KOKUBUN: Thank you. Mr. Domingo, followed by Mrs . Hale. MR. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr . Chairman. I can appreciate some of the concerns expressed about tying down the hands of the Administration. But I think what we ' re looking and what we ' re treading on is a fine line as to whether we are actually doing that or whether we ' re really trying to grab hold of the budget and make the budget a meaningful document . I think what ' s proposed by the Legislative Auditor ' s Office is appropriate in the correct direction in trying to address their concern. In addition to that, Councilman Yamashiro ' s suggested that or asked the question of when does a transfer constitute appropriations of some sort? I think we should have that cleared. If we can get that cleared and with the appropriate language, as recommended by the Legislative Auditor ' s Office, would be sufficient . CHR. KOKUBUN: Thank you. Mrs. Hale, followed by Mr . Schutte. MRS. HALE: I just like to say, unless we eliminate the Miscellaenous Contractual accounts in every department, we ' re still going to have the same problem. MR. YAMASHIRO: That ' s right. MRS . HALE : So, it depends on how detailed you want the budget to be and I don' t think that this body is in a position to anticipate for a whole year how much you ' re going to spend on supplies and how much you ' re going to spend on paper and to detail it that much. I ' d like to also warn this Council that a number of individuals here probably have ambitions one day to be Mayor . Don' t tie your hands so much that you ' re going to find it difficult to administer . I ' d just 465 . 13 8