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CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you, anybody else? MR. MELROSE: We are tasked at this meeting with setting a deadline for communityÓs contribution to the mapping. We are still without the data base that we will ultimately use. So, I have a couple of questions; one, do we know when David will be ready, when the State Elections office will have done that extraction? Is there any way for us to estimate a time in which that might be available? MS. NAKAMOTO : I spoke with David this morning and he told me that he has been engaged with the military and they understand the urgency in providing the information to them. As soon as he gets the information he is going to re-populate the data base. MR. MELROSE: That being the case; and military not being our issue--there or five or six military--it's not an issue relative to our numbers. But, the student population is; and at 1400, being able to allocate that in some way. I see two ways to approach this. One is that we instruct the community to use the existing data base at this point in time, and make some adjustments. I wish we could be a little bit more accurate about it, but at least make some accommodations. The process of bringing numbers into a district is never going to be exact. ItÓs a chunk kind of agreement. One thousand votes is a 5% variation within one district. So if you are a little over 1460 votes, we are still within the variation there. So, we could say that within these districts we wish to see that number higher and in the other districts, for growth purposes or other things we would see those lower as part of instruction to the community; to help them understand what we are going to use as guides. Or, we could just sit back and wait until these numbers show up and say we arenÓt going to do anything until the numbers show up, which I think frankly, puts us all behind the eight ball and it wouldnÓt be a very good way to go. So, maybe David could be helpful. We are just looking for some advice in how we might proceed. This issue is at the core of what we have to do today and we need to figure out what is the method. We have to have a conversation about the method that we advise the community to follow in this process. CHR. SIRACUSA: I might mention that it is also going to affect our other job today, and that is establishing the time line for submission. We have to allow decent amount of time to do this work. Thank you. MR. UDOVIC: I donÓt disagree with anything that you have said, and I wish that there was some way for us to have the information. We did what we could tthe extractions for our county very early on. We have, with the University and the Community College, not even 1200 people; maybe 11 hundred something. I think it is 874 and 261; that is what I recall, I donÓt know if that is exact. But itÓs not a whole lot of people that we are talking about. I think that we could probably be safe to start drawing plans with the population base that we have now, quite frankly. Then we may have to make some adjustments based on each individual census tract; but we might be able to do that. I donÓt think we is just my opinion. You have to set a date now for the alternate plans to be submitted. CHR. SIRACUSA: Is that your personal opinion, or is that a legal opinion? 8