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MR. CADINHA: If you need $100 , 000 to <br /> operate this year, who do you give that to? . The Mayor? <br /> MR. KIM: ' That is correct. We prepare two <br /> budgets, to make things more. confusing now. One for the <br /> federal boys and one for the operating functions. We prepare <br /> two budges which we give to the Mayor. <br /> MR. CADINHA: These budgets are identical? <br /> MR. KIM: Yes. <br /> MR. CADINHA: Then the Mayor takes your <br /> request for, in this case, the $100, 000 so we can follow on. <br /> Where does he budget that? In other words, the Mayor has a <br /> budget, an administrative budget. . .Rudy, do you know the <br /> answer to this? <br /> ' MR. LEGASPI : It appears as a separate entity <br /> in the budget requests , titled Civil Defense. And as Mr. Kim <br /> said, it is funded with the sharing of funds. <br /> MR. KIM: It is matching funds that the <br /> federal puts in. That would eliminate some of the confusion. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: Rudy, maybe you can explain <br /> this. I don ' t particularly understand this situation where <br /> you have an organization within the county structure that <br /> is funded partially by state funds and partially by county <br /> funds. There is nothing mentioned in our County Charter that <br /> allows this provision. However, the employees of this <br /> particular organization come under the County Civil Service. <br /> In other words, they are hired through the County Civil SerViGe. <br /> They are funded 50% or better through county funds but they are <br /> neither listed here within the Mayor ' s portion of it or any <br /> other portion within the County Charter. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: I think Mr. Bess; the Corporation <br /> Counsel can answer that. I think what he ' ll tell us is that <br /> there are two charters that we are working under, practically <br /> speaking. Isn ' t that right, Mr. Bess? <br /> MR. BESS : There is a provision in our State <br /> Constitution relating to local government that provides this. <br /> Where the State Legislature may pass uniform laws of state- <br /> wide application and these would supersede any provisions in <br /> the Charter so that although we have a certain amount of power <br /> at the local governmental level-in areas such as Civil Defense <br /> where the State Legislature determines that it is advisable <br /> to have a uniform system of Civil Defense in the entire state <br /> they have seen fit to pass I believe it is Chapter 127 that <br /> provides for this kind of uniform system of Civil Defense. <br /> And that is basically what the problem is. .we have had the <br /> State Legislature determining that this was necessary and what <br /> had happened, apparently. . .and I have to research this. . .but <br /> in the last Charter Commission Review, they did not see fit to <br /> reiterate what alreadyLiis in 127 in our County Charter. <br /> -24- <br />