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YUEN:You are required to take public testimony because theitem is on the agenda, whether or not you make a decision today. If you decided to, if you decided to hear it today against the wishes of the Applicant and one of the Intervenors, which I dont expect you to do, then you would have to have the public testimony before you made, certainly before you made that decision. But I think all youre talking about right this minute is -. I think, Commissioner Graham, youthought it would be useful to inform the decision of whether or not to take it to a hearing officer, to have the public testimony first? GRAHAM:Correct. YUEN:And I think, by this point, and thats for the Commission to decide, you know, as to how you want to proceed here. The only thing Id mention to the public isthat,doestheCommissionwanttoatleast-?CantheCommissionatleastsignalthe public whether or not its going to decide this today first? That might be useful to the public in knowing how much to get into this. FUJIKAWA:Commissioner McCall? LIM:Mr. Chairman, I guess thats part of the reason why I did the little speech up in the front, because we feel that, you know, we hope to work it out without having to go forward with the Special Permit. But in the event that we dont, we will be coming back to the Planning Commission, we will be bringing our witnesses. And I think whether the public testifies today, or at the Contested Case Hearing, or at the later on arguments before the Planning Commission, I think youre going to hear both sides come out every single time. So I dont think that its going to be a situation where because you didnt hear them today that they, of course, you didnt hear it before the full Commission today that you wont get to hear all the people. Cause I know that people feel strongly from both sides, so Im sure that theyre all going to come out every single time. Weve told our side not to come out today in anticipation of this being primarily a procedural hearing. FUJIKAWA:Oh, you had a question? MCCALL:Yeah, maybe just to throw my opinion out along with everybody else. I have no problem with hearing the public testimony before we go to decision- making on the contested case, on where we want to go as far as a contested case. If the rest of the Commission dont have a problem with that, we could take all the public testimony, and then do it. But as far as I understand it, what were, it seems to me, and I dont want to speak for the rest of the Commissioners, but I believe, we are not, I dont believe were looking at trying to do the contested case at this point in time. I believe were going to, we will either be, if we choose to hear it ourselves, we will schedule another meeting for it. If we choose to hire a hearings officer, we will schedule another meeting in the future for it. So I dont -. You know, what I think all were going to be 15