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FUJIKAWA:Okay. Any other questions of Mr. Yuen? Commissioner Graham, go ahead. GRAHAM:Mr. Yuen, in respect to whether the procedure that seems to be in effect here with the Commission right now of reconsidering based on our own motion as opposed to the Applicant following 6-8 for a reconsideration, it would seem to me to turn in this way. If we had a hearing and granted a permit with certain conditions but there was some procedural misunderstanding like maybe a Commissioner thought an aye vote meant this condition should go in but really he understood wrong, then it would seem perfectly appropriate that the Commission reconsider what it did. I feel like this, even though this action was suggested by Mr. Tsukazaki based on overhearing some words by the Planning Commissioners, still feels to me that thhrhri+sgdhrrtd`sgd`qs here is a factual issue, not a procedural issue. The factual issue of whether the implications of running the buses has been thoroughly understood and agreed upon by the Planning Commission members as to what's implied. So, to me, because it's a factual issue and not a procedural issue, 6-8 really would be the proper way to bring it about, but I can see that the procedure we're looking at right now might apply if there was some procedural misunderstanding by the Commission. YUEN:Can I respond to that? FUJIKAWA:Yes, go ahead. YUEN:The rules -, if somebody actually did misunderstand the effect of their vote, I think it would come out in the meeting immediately after the vote, to take an example. That if the gavel came down and the person said motion denied, and the Applicant frowned and got up with a long face and the Commissioners then, one of the Commissioners thought, realized, gee, I voted, I thought that yes meant approval and yes meant denial, okay, let's take that as an example. The rules say that a person, the rules allow the Commission to make a motion to reconsider at any time before the decision becomes effective. The decision becomes effective when it's mailed out. So in the example of you realizing that a mistake is made at your hearing, a member of the Commission can make a motion to reconsider. Now it has to be a person on the prevailing side, okay. The person that voted the majority realizes oh, something is wrong here, and they can -, that is a procedure, all right. Now once the decision has been mailed out, then the only way to change it is this motion -, the Applicant can bring a motion to amend, and that's the way this works here. GRAHAM:Thank you. FUJIKAWA:Any other questions? KUBOTA:Mr. Chairman? 12