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Bethea: Questioned whether Fire Chief should appoint his deputy. There' s no deputy provision in the Charter. Yuen: Deputy' s position is funded by Council ; and Sec. 4-5 (a) allows Fire to have a deputy. IX. AGENDA ITEM NO. 9 : Art . VII: Civil Service. Bethea: Civil Service is controlled by state law. Yuen: Voted on 02/02/90 to retain Chapter 1 as is ; that motion was defeated. L'Orange made a motion to conform Chapter 1 to state law; this motion passed. Bethea: Questioned whether this item would be housekeeping or a single item to be placed separate on the ballot . Omonaka: Hope to decide that at end of this process when all motions can be reviewed. Motion No. 5: L'Orange: Moved that this Civil Service change to conform Chapter 1 to state law be a house- keeping item. Poppe: Seconded. All were in favor. ARTICLE IX: Bethea: Noted that Article IX was not on the agenda and supposed that it had previously been discussed. Yuen: Noted that nothing was voted on per his list of items accomplished. An issue was brought up re Sec. 9-3 , salary issue. Cushnie: One suggestion was change 9-4 to read, "The prosecuting attorney or his deputy shall . . . " so that deputy could assume his duties. And that an insertion be made in 9-4 (a) about prosecutor being a chief law enforcement officer of the county. Bethea: Suggested that 9-3 be changed to include prosecutor as an elected officer. L'Orange: This article should be put on next agenda. Bethea: Correct; it should not be discussed at this time, but will be on the next agenda (Tape 1 : 2: 22) . X. AGENDA ITEM NO. 10: Art. X: Financial procedures. Yuen: Major items brought up are: a) Fund transfers within the operating budget. Presently, the mayor may transfer funds within the agency at any time so long as there is an unencumbered fund balance. Alternatives: Let mayor and Council continue to work it out; require Council notification of transfers ; limit the dollar amount that can be transferred from one account to another; or set a percentage limitation amount that a particular account may be increased by or reduced by. b) The time frame available for Council to review mayor ' s budget was said to be too short. c) Council requested that they be given power to enter into consultant contracts. d) There are other items but these are major . 824