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To cut it down this is the way it goes. Make the mayor responsible, that is the way it should be. So I think within the department any sort of balance between classifi- cation of expenditures within an executive agency, fine. But between departments, no, I think that is where problems come. MR. TRULSON: What about the council ' s ability to transfer funds? At the present time the charter is silent on that. MAYOR MATAYOSHI : That is right. MR. TRULSON: Should the council have the prerogative to transfer funds between agencies? MAYOR MATAYOSHI : No, I don ' t think so. I think otherwise you would be frustrated in your efforts. Example, now, this is not happening, but if you use an example it has to be quite qualified. It is not now happening, it is not now contemplated, it is an example. . . .the SATW, the Society of American Travel Writers conference is coming here on October 15 of this year. We are working very diligently on it. Our research and development is working and we have very, very good response from all of the travel writersIndustry people are all extremely enthusiastic because they say this is really the way to promote an island or any destination like ours with the reasonable amount of bucks to get the biggest bang, this is the way to go. So we are 'working on it, putting all of the funds in it and setting it all up and going down the way. . . . . . . .if you want to frustrate it, what the council could now do with that particular fund is shift it out. You would virtually cut the program at that particular mid-point. It would become impossible to have any kind of a goal set up, administratively, you would frustrate the administration so much. Then the people who are the civil servants would say look, I worked like heck on this thing. So if there isn ' t a council change at the election point, suddenly their votes swing the other way. , All your efforts go down the tube, you have no continuity or the achievement of the goal. What people would like to be called down on or pat on the back for is achievement of a goal , right? In the R & D, research and development, and this SATW in particular have been working with the varied divisions on it and everything is coming out very nicely on it. Now I am sure, in October, if it all goes well , and we get good response. . .it is really an accomplishment. . .we cannot as government officials give any compensation for work well done except a pat on the back, right? Because there is no bonus system like industry may have. But certainly a pat on the back for having achieved that goal with the amount of money that is available. But you could frustrate it by cutting it off at any point, as an example, and I 'm not saying this is going to happen. Just an example. -14-