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Bethea: Incoming revenues cannot be estimated until <br /> Legislature is over. Mizuno: Administration should have <br /> first opportunity to decide how money is spent. <br /> L'Orange: Possible to change accounting year to <br /> September 30th? Federal fiscal year is October 30th. <br /> Bethea: May cause a problem with receiving state funds . <br /> Kokubun: Does not mind administration deciding what to <br /> spend money on initially, because Council is part of the <br /> checks-and-balance system. <br /> Bethea: Once operating budget is adopted, understands <br /> that it is not subject to Council amendment. See Section <br /> 10-5 . Capital budget can be amended. Kokubun: Said see <br /> Section 10-8 . Cannot know revenues until see what <br /> receives from the state. Bethea: Council is involved in <br /> lobbying process as well as rest of County. <br /> Kokubun: Legislature will probably be out late this year <br /> (Tape 1 : 2:43) . So budget will be submitted without <br /> benefit of counties knowing exactly how much they will <br /> receive. Greenwell : Council creates legislative program <br /> and mayor carries it through. Mayor modifies money <br /> breakdown. <br /> Yuen: Questioned details of program breakdown submitted <br /> to Legislature. Mizuno: Submits programs ' total amounts <br /> for each department to Legislature. But worksheets with <br /> more detail stays with County personnel . Yuen: <br /> Questioned whether Mizuno could submit preliminary budget <br /> to Council before Legislature closes , based on assump- <br /> tion. Mizuno: Not possible because wouldn' t know how <br /> much are going to be given. Duncan: Council wants to <br /> see where priorities are in administration' s budget. <br /> Mizuno: Yes , can indicate tentatively, without detail , <br /> what budget could be. Bethea: Questioned whether <br /> Council wants too much budget detail . Kokubun: Doesn' t <br /> need to get into detail of budget , but other items were <br /> handled too loosely before (i .e. fund transferability, <br /> definition of "appropriation duly made" ) . Finite item <br /> budget review caused by abuse of privileges in Charter by <br /> administration. <br /> L'Orange: Doesn' t like the idea of having a "preliminary <br /> budget. " Kokubun: This is opportunity for Charter <br /> Commission to' solve problem which Council and administra- <br /> tion can' t. "Transfers" and "appropriations duly made" <br /> need to be defined. Bethea: Charters says transfers <br /> within departments of unappropriated fund balances can be <br /> 837 <br />