The second amendment is less far reaching but still unwise. Under current procedures, the council can cut from the mayor's proposed budget but can't move money from one line item to another and can't add to any appropriation. Council members have frequently negotiated with mayors to shift money within the budget, but if they reach an impasse in which the mayor refuses to reallocate the savings from budget cuts, the default option is to reduce the property tax rate by that amount. The amendment would let the council directly reallocate funds. Such a system isn't without precedent — some cities handle their budgets that way, as does, for example, Montgomery County — but it would put a potentially broad new power in the hands of council members who campaigned without knowing they would have it. Voters might well have made different choices in the primary if they had known that was coming.