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applicant; for the Director’s one, it just says within 60 days after receipt, and does not contain the same language that talks about, you know, a longer period being agreed to by the applicant. Exactly what that means, I don’t think we ever dealt with that, but it’s an issue that I invite the parties to address when we get to argument on the merits. WATANABE: Follow-up. GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: Okay. I don’t know if I’m reading this correctly or not, but we have two opposing proposals here: one from the applicant to extend the time and another from the Planning Director to rescind. And if we are unable to come to a majority decision on either one, then it implies that we will not have a majority decision on the other. But the Rules state in both instances that a negative recommendation is then forwarded to the County Council, and the negative recommendation in each situation will nullify the other. It’s -, you see what I’m driving at? It doesn’t make sense. You know, so unless we decide here, it’s a nonsensical circular argument. GRAHAM: All right. Is it all right if I have Mr. Yuen respond? WATANABE: Please. GRAHAM: Go ahead. YUEN: There isn’t any way around that. If you have contradictory applications and there isn’t a majority vote by the Planning Commission, they will both go up with a negative recommendation. We have had, as you know, quite a few matters go to the Council with a negative recommendation due to the failure to obtain five votes by the Planning Commission either for or against the application. So we do, we transmit it to the Council with a transcript of what happened, we tell the Council what the vote was, and it does formally go up as a negative recommendation. We try to explain, we send the Planning Director’s recommendation on it, so the Council has something to work with. So there really is no way around that, if the Commission does not have -, and in this case where there are two contradictory proposals for the same piece of property. GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman, where are we on the time clock with regard to the submittal for the down zoning to the Planning Commission? GRAHAM: Mr. Torigoe, could you explain that sort of as concisely as possible? TORIGOE: Well, I think it’s kind of a matter of calendar; it depends on when the transmittal was to the Planning Commission from the Director. DOMINGO: So Mr. Torigoe, that means that being that it’s a Planning Director’s initiated measure, and if we pass the 90-day mark, then it would automatically go up to the Council with a negative recommendation; that’s what I understand -. EXHIBIT A 13