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Hawaii County Council August 2, 1989 CHR. KOKUBUN: Thank you. I think it was the policy, actually, of the Council to pass on recommended changes to the Charter Review Commission, if there was unanimity from the body. Otherwise, any Councilmember really can do his or her own presentation to the Charter Review. Maybe the recommendation at this time then, after hearing all the discussion, is that this communication be referred back to the Inter-Governmental Relations Committee for more clarity in regard to appropriation and the relationship of appropriation with expenditure . Is that the request, Mr. Yamashiro, primarily? Mrs . Hale moved to refer Comm. 736 to the Inter-Governmental Relations Committee. Seconded by Miss Lai . CHR. KOKUBUN: Even though I know you would vote for it if we brought it up for a vote now, you still would like clarification in that area? MR. YAMASHIRO: I don' t care where it goes, I just would like to see that it gets to the Charter Commission for their consideration and not be bogged down in our own procedural questions because I don' t think we ' re going to, you know, it ' s not for us to make the final decision. You know, we can hammer out the fine-tune language of what we want, but I think it more important we get the thought to them along with the proposed language and let them take it from there. CHR. KOKUBUN: Maybe along those lines then, why don' t we leave it at the Council level , have the Legislative Auditor provide more clarity to the. appropriation, I guess more than what is already included here, and then we can decide at that point in time whether to refer it on and, procedurally, we can deal with it at this level and not have it' go back and forth. Mrs . Hale . MRS. HALE : We have a motion. Even if it goes back to Committee, it would still come back to this ; Council by the next meeting, so I don ' t see it makes much difference. 465 . 15 10