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counted eight weeks and came up with November 10th. November 10th would be the date for the deadline for us to create a Draft Plan. But, prior to that Draft Plan, we will go to the nine public hearings with the opportunity for people to testify on anything about Redistricting Plans. But after the Draft Plan is created by the Commission, there will be two more public hearings at which time the public will have a chance to comment on the Commission's Draft Plan. If we go with the November 10th date, we have to consider that as we schedule the rest of our regular meetings of the Commission, because we will need time to decide on the Draft Plan. CHR. SIRACUSA: And scheduling our Regular Meetings is a different agenda item. MS. EOFF: Yes. So we need to agree on November 10th or somewhere just thereafter as our deadline for a Draft Plan. MR. MELROSE: So if we hold September 15th as the date for Submission of Alternate Plans, it gives people one week to make the adjustments for the data that we just agreed to and for additional submissions. I would just ask the Commission is that reasonable that we allow only a week that we set for the deadline for people to submit their final alternative shot at this? What is the Commission's thinking on that topic? MS. EOFF: September 15th is currently the date for the public to submit. MR. MELROSE: That's right; and we just changed it, and today is the 91h and we have just set the number today, and we are saying that six days from now, the public has six days left to submit an alternate plan with numbers we set today. CHR. SIRACUSA: And that won't be posted until tomorrow. MS. EOFF: There is some tight scheduling though from now until the end of the year that we have to consider to hold all of these public hearings and the two subsequent hearings after the Draft Plan, and to give all this information to Office of Elections. So we don't have a lot of leeway to change things. I've been studying the calendar the last couple of weeks, plus the dates have been published in the newspaper, I think four or five times already, that September 15th is the deadline for the public to submit. CHR. SIRACUSA: Does somebody want to make a motion? MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Rene. CHR. SIRACUSA: Yes. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: I've been working with this software fairly regularly, and a week is plenty of time to make the minor adjustments that are going to be necessary in any plan that anybody has already done. It's not going to take a half an hour to make changes that only involve a handful of people in each district.