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ALAMEDA:Aye. DARROW:The motion passes five to zero to grant standing to Malcolm and Virginia Scott. ALAMEDA:Fellow Commissioners, now the question of outsourcing or hearing it ourselves? Whats your pleasure? Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:I would move to outsource this to a Hearings Officer. GALDONES:Second. ALAMEDA:Motion made by Commissioner Watanabe to outsource, seconded by CommissionerGaldones.Discussion?Mr.Torigoe? TORIGOE:Ijustwanttoclarify,istheintentiontoconsolidatethethree?Basically youve got three parties who are asking for a Contested Case. Is it your intention to consolidate all three into one Contested Case? WATANABE: I assumed that. I didnt think of it any other way. I dont know about the other Commissioners, but I assumed that it was just going to be one hearing. TORIGOE:Under your Rule 4-15, you can consolidate requests for hearings which may include two or more parties. And, so, I think just for the purposes of, you know, clarity, you should make clear on the record whether that is your intention; and, also, Mr. Lim may have some input on that. ALAMEDA:Okay. Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Yeah, I also feel like if any of the Petitioners would prefer not to have it consolidated, they could come forward and let us know now. LIM:We would prefer that all matters be consolidated for hearing. Wed also prefer that should the Scotts become difficult to contact, that we dont have to take extraordinary measures to get them to participate in the scheduling of the hearings and those type of things. Thank you very much. ALAMEDA:Youre welcome. Okay. TORIGOE:Yeah, you should check and see if theres any objection from the Intervenors. ALAMEDA:Okay. Is there any objections from the Intervenors about consolidation? No? Seeing none, thank you. WATANABE: So we need a separate motion for that? 18EXHIBIT E