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MS. NAKAMOTO: No. MR. MELROSE: ThatÓs just a question; and 45 days is good, and I know you were doing this to hopefully give yourself a Christmas vacation this year. Or at least be allowed to take one as opposed to forcing you into doing this. And I think we all said at our last meeting we would like to do that too. The public hearing processes; there are two hearing periods, and I think we are supposed to one, hold a hearing in every district, and that would be the first sequence of hearings. Then the second series of hearings, which is where now we would be reviewing the Draft Plan specifically, thatÓs when there are two; and East and a West. So for the multiple ones, for the nine Commission hearings; the last time this was done, did all Commissioners go to each of these individual area meetings? How does this differ from the last one? MS. NAKAMOTO: I donÓt recall if all Commissioners went to every Public Hear Commissioners did attend the Public Hearings. MR. MELROSE: Is there a lag time for support for the Department to create a---I guess we are going to do this at the Civic Center, so itÓs not a question of having space to do it; but the logistics of getting them done. I think August, September, October; we have about two and a half months to do nine meetings. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: In the last go-around, I remember from reading it, they did, in some cases, two or three hearings in one day. Patrick would know better. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: If I may; absolutely, we did, and the staff had to do it; rem staff was the logistics people. They had to take the maps, the books, whatever we needed to get there. We accomplished it. Sometimes it was twice a week. You then went on the weekend to do it. Especially the places in Ka, and when we got to Kohala and Waimea and Kona, we were there, and Puna. So it was just something that needed to be done. We just needed to get out there. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: How well attended were the meetings? MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: I must say, we were not overflowing with people; but people o district was concerned. I would have to say, Puna showed the greatest concern. But everywhere else, we had---We didnÓt run out of refreshments, how about that. We didnÓt run out of refreshments with the rest of the places. But, that being said, thatÓs the process that was used. thth MS. NAKAMOTO: And the August 16 to October 7 deadline; that was really put in there so that you folks could look at your schedule and see how you could fit this time frame into your schedule. th MR. MIDDLESWORTH: The only one that I might be concerned about is if we say August 16 th to October 7 for the Public Hearings, and then the deadline is three days later. I might say thth August 16 to September 20 or something like that for the Public Hearings, so we have a couple of weeks between the hearings and the submission of the Draft Plan. 28