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WATANABE: Okay. OGATA: I have a WATANABE: Yes, Ms. Ogata. OGATA: I have a question. As I read it now and as I understand it - so please correct me if I'm wrong - we would receive a draft of the Plan, we would have, the proposal is to have 60 days to turn that around; however, if the Commission saw the need for an amendment or a revision, would that restart the 60 days? YUEN: No, that would be part of your recommendation up to the Council. OGATA: Okay. So it wouldn't, I mean, say we have been discussing that for 40 days so far and then all of a sudden somebody comes up with a recommendation for a revision, or something like that. Would that kind of amendment or revision restart the clock or we'll already be in the 40 days? YUEN: No, once the Plan is transmitted to the Commission, that's when the 60 days start, and regardless of what the Commission may do in its own deliberations. Because if you restart it for amendments by the Commission, conceivably, you know, that could itself take forever; just as if you had no timeframe, you would not know when to bring it out of the Commission. OGATA: Okay. WATANABE: Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: I think what Mr. Yuen is saying is we don't make the final deliberations; we just send a recommendation to the Council. And we have quite a bit of leeway. If we want to send a recommendation to approve provisions 1 through 8 of 9, we send that recommendation to the Council; if there is one we object to, we suggest revisions to it. It's really up to the Council then to make the decision. So I don't think it's a matter of having it back and forth between us and the people that drafted the original Community Development Plan; it's a matter of sending our recommendation to the Council. And we have the ability to modify or make recommendations on, you know, line items essentially. WATANABE: Mr. Alameda. ALAMEDA: I'm just thinking about it, I don't see three more months being that big of a problem considering the ten years that we may never see the document again. You know what I mean? It's just three more months of more scrutiny, additional scrutiny that the County Council can probably benefit from. I mean nobody is going to look at one document better than Commissioner Siracusa. You know what I mean? So that may be additional, I don't see that as a huge problem unless there is some backlog or maybe there is some issue with administration- wise. But, I don't know, three more months for documents that we are not going to see again in ten years, I don't know, to me it's not a big deal. 8