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C. Section 3-14 Adoption of Pay Plan The adoption of the annual pay plan seems to be a redundant action, the Council must approve the positions established in the pay plan and it must approve the funds for the positions in the opera- tional budget. With proper amendments, the Council could take up the approval of the positions at the same time the budgetary appropriations are approved. D. Section 10-13 Post Audit The Council does not concur with the administration in changing the post audit requirements to a biennium audit. Appropriations are incorporated in an annual budget, thus the audit report should address the fiscal year coinciding with the budgetary appropia- tions. We are dealing with the public trust and thus it should be incumbent upon us to provide a disclosure of public fund expenditures on a timely basis. E. Section 13-4 Boards and Commissions The Council recommends that the boards and commissions be retained intact. These boards and commissions are another means by which the public is able to foster their input into the governmental processes. This is another segment of the all-important system of checks and balances incorporated into our democratic system insuring the rights of the people to be heard. II . NEW CONSIDERATIONS A. Real Property Tax Assessment The State Constitutional Convention has resulted in an amendment of the real property taxation powers by transferring the powers and functions relating to real property taxation from the state to the counties. Being as the County Council is charged with the responsibility of establishing the tax rate, we would recommend that the tax assessment function be assigned to the County Council ' s Legislative Auditor. B. Confirmation of Department Heads The Council would also recommend that their confirma- tion authority be expanded to include all the depart- ment heads. It is the accepted practice that basic policy-making functions remain with the council and traditionally the administrative officers have been charged with the responsibility of executing the policy decisions of the Council. In order to assure that policies and programs of the legislative branch are implemented some supervision by the Council should be incorporated. The confirmation of the cabinet members of the administration would cast some onus on the departments to adhere to the Council policies and programs. -4- I _