Ever. Japans Political Parties have agreed to quickly begin deliberations on the countrys next budget. The process has been delayed since a key economic minister resigned last week. Twelve Political Parties agreed to try to Start Committee deliberations after the new economic revitalization minister gives a policy speech and takes questions in the diet. The secretarygeneral of the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party called for budget deliberations to start as soon as possible. Translator the Global Economy is somewhat increasingly unpredictable. And japan must take steps in accordance with the current situation. We must come up with concrete measures through discussions in the diet. Such measures will be included in the budget. The former economic revitalization minister, akira amari, resigned thursday, saying his secretaries had mishandled funds. He admitted to personally receiving cash from a construction company, but he said the money had been registered as political funds. A Senior Mem
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And the second frankly is that the Decision Making process about appropriating funds from the reserve to the district is now resting with the mayor and the board of super visors so certainly that was the intent of the original language, but that is something that the city has you know, the willingness to revisit and change. Thats some of the discussion thats taking place now. The possible changes. One is that there would be two separate reserves created so right now instead of having the one plot of funds in the rainy day reserve, that there would be a split of the one reserve into two reserves. One would be for the district and one would be for the city and the city would receive 75 percent of the current balance and the district would receive 25 percent. And then if the say if and when the city in any year where they would make an additional deposit to the reserve then the same per centages would apply. In other words, we would use the funds to avoid lay offs rather than rescinding l
Is one change, but in technical terms, that would be less than 25 percent of the whole balance in the rainy day reserve, but at least there would be certainty about that. Thats why we think there would be less money. Thank you. I want to follow up on that. This is where my antenna goes up because i want to make sure we thought through the whole thing. Clearly there are people that beyond the Rating Agency issue think this is a better situation for them. So i mean, i havent i have to confess and i havent read through your whole memo that you sent us so you may have done this, but it just seems to me, like, if you could play out the scenarios of the last few years i mean, i understand those conversations were very id owe sin cattic but if you look at the city had this much in the fund and this is the amount that we were the gross amount we were entitled to regard less of what we actually agreed to or negotiated, i wonder if we should do some comparison that way. Do you know what i mean .
[inaudible] or whether or not we would be getting [inaudible]. Not in the materials that i went through tonight, but yesterday i sent an email with scenarios and calculations to you. Its hard to tell because its speculative. We dont know what the among other things, we dont know what the policymakers of the city would do in the future, including the near future about making draws or appropriations to the district under the current language so its part of this depends on one zone predictions about how likely and for how long the city would continue to appropriate funds from the rainy day reserve to the district so in my view, it is certainly not guaranteed that the city would continue to make appropriations to the district as theyve done for the last four or five years, at least indefinitely, especially as our own revenues hopefully will continue to increase as the lcff rolls outs and gets implemented. We could see that each year wed certainly make the case, but even in bad years weve h