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bad financial statement that year. You cannot go back after the millage is adopted; so we had a loss that year, and when you are an expanding county going into the financial markets constantly as we are, they don't like to see losses on your financial statement. Commissioner Scurlock believed Commissioner Bird is saying you can simply go back into your budget and defer capital expense and use that as operating funds to clean up. Administrator Chandler concurred you can do that, but you want to build a sound consistent financial base, and this is simply insurance so that if you do get hit, you can cover that cost and continue on normally with your capital programs. Commissioner Scurlock agreed that it gives a more stable environment, and Chairman Wheeler believed it is simply good business planning. Commissioner Bird noted that we sat here last year and refused to put $100,000 in the budget for this when things were tough and now that we have found some excess funds, they want to increase it to $500,000, and he still is not in favor of it. He questioned why it is necessary to make these allocations at this meeting. Director Baird explained that he just felt the Commission should make a decision as to how they would like to utilize their money. Commissioner Scurlock felt the real answer is to look at our contingency for the last 8 years. By not allocating, we put all that money in contingencies, and then in about 6 months or so, it is all gone because it gets nickled and dimed away. Every year that he can remember, we have exhausted the entire contingency fund before the year is out, and this is just an attempt to earmark the use of these funds so we don't have everyone gearing up to jump in and try to get part of them. Chairman Wheeler concurred with Commissioner Eggert that it APR 1 8 1889 45 aoor 76 FnE 634