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Page 40 <br />1 I have my reservation whether we can do it by <br />2 February. Implementing the charter amendment requires <br />3 a lot of information to take place. But that's okay <br />4 because we have to go through it. Once we go through <br />5 it, it will be in place for our future deliberations. <br />6 Anything else? <br />7 MR. HIGGINS: I'm just a little bothered <br />8 by -- I'm feeling pressured that we have to give pay <br />9 raises without having some input or some coordination <br />10 with the budget people, even though they're not working <br />11 on it yet. But the question of affordability. I keep <br />12 thinking that if this volcano had not stopped, the <br />13 budget would be in huge jeopardy. And so, I don't feel <br />14 right about us proposing something, throwing it at the <br />15 budget people, without having at least the input that <br />16 you mentioned on many times, that we ask somebody -- <br />17 what's her name -- directly, "Is there enough money to <br />18 pay for this?" And she said "Yes." Well, we haven't <br />19 even gone through that. Here we are talking about <br />20 major pay raises. <br />21 The thing of it is -- is right now, the optics <br />22 to me really stand that we just made massive pay <br />23 raises, and it was overdue and for good reason, but <br />24 right now, there's a lot of people in businesses that <br />25 are struggling, and here we hit the pavement with a new <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br />