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doing in terms of processes, just go down with what they put down as high and follow through. If it was something related to an item then maybe we'd pull it in so we're doing things more comprehensively. You know, I've been comfortable with that. We also talked about, at the last meeting, we had something from, a referral from Brenda Ford to this committee, and I think at the last meeting the one thing, I think with referrals we should look to see where they fit in terms of the items on here and fit those in and not do, okay we're going to do referrals. I don't want to do them out of context. The more, for me and particularly cause I'm not an expert in this area, the more I do things in terms of the bigger picture the better I feel I can comment rather than pull this category out of the bag and say okay how do we handle that. I'm not comfortable with it without looking at what is that compared to. Sort of how we do that. So I felt good with starting with the list that the other Council Members, including Bob, sort of looking at their, respecting what they put here and following their list that we've been doing. Except where we see something that maybe we should combine this and whatever seems common sense otherwise. The other thing is we are, we made a point and I think the point has been made repeatedly, that we'd like to really focus on agricultural issues and the public's made comments. We'd like to, when we get into sort of a big category, that if we're going to look at that, that we do focus on that area. Regardless if whether it's true or not, the sense that there are a lot of inequities that affect ag versus others in that area and appreciate that public perception that that's an area that needs to be addressed. Nancy also spoke up and said that that was, she felt, we ought to be in terms of big categories in starting, in looking at that. The other thing is that we need to be responsible to bring a quarterly report to the Council. Now, exactly at what point we are starting and here's our quarter and how we handle that. But I think that we need to think about that and realize that the public is 'let's get stuff done'. At the same, but get stuff done and again I don't want to do sort of one item here without sort of feeling here's what we're presenting as a package. So if we're not ready to do ag that we're not doing. Anyway, just so we do things in the most organized fashion possible. Mr. Onishi: Good that you brought up about that, about the report. What I was going to suggest to this committee is that, what I wanted to see or what we could do is that we could do a monthly report. So when we have our meeting, like say March 20th, at the next Council meeting or at the next Council Committee meeting on Finance, we could give them a report as to what happened. So that way they'll keep updated. Instead of waiting for the quarterly, we can give it to them every time For example, for like the Hawaii State Association of Counties, once we have the minutes that come to us, then I put that on the agenda for our next Council Committee meeting. So that way it doesn't build up. I think that way the public would be more informed about what's progressing within this Task Force. - 3 -