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HOUSEL: I want to clarify the motion. Is it to give it a negative referral? Is that correct -? COTTLE: That’s correct. HOUSEL: Okay. Then my vote is no. COTTLE: Commissioner Ogata? OGATA: No. COTTLE: And Chair Woodward? WOODWARD: No. COTTLE: That’s four to three. And that does not pass. WOODWARD: Yes, it does not. COTTLE: Thank you. WOODWARD: I’ll ask Mr. Torigoe. I know there’s a time limit. We have to have five votes one way or the other to send a recommendation. And since this is a State Land Use Boundary Amendment there is a time limit that we have to, if we want to reconsider this. So maybe you call fill us in a little bit on that. TORIGOE: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Basically there is nothing in your rules that specifically speaks to the time limit on State Land Use Boundary Amendments; but the accompanying rezoning request does have a 90-day time limit from the time that the application is received by the Commission from the Director. And I guess I would ask the staff to inform us whether that 90-day time limit has been reached yet or if this can be easily continued to the next meeting. And you can discuss this, but if it looks like you basically don’t have five votes one way or the other then it would make sense to just defer both of these items until the next meeting. ALAMEDA: Mr. Chair? WOODWARD: Yes, sir. ALAMEDA: Mr. Torigoe, what about the possibility of just moving it up as a no, you know, like some kind of recommendation that we basically didn’t get the five to the County Council? TORIGOE: Well, we discussed this before that since you have this 90-day time limit that the intent of the law basically seems to be that you go ahead and take the 90 days to try and get some kind of recommendation. And then after that then it goes up on a default negative, unless the applicant really wants it to hang around longer. 21