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<br />HERKES: Five days a week is probably an exaggeration.
<br />RAY: Well, no, no, but I mean to check things.
<br />HERKES: Yeah.
<br />RAY: I think, you know, you want some -, you want to be able to respond on a timely basis and, you
<br />know, if you’re out there, you know you really throw this out to the public, I think you’re going to
<br />generate a lot of input and interest and questions and -.
<br />HERKES: I suppose another thing we talked about that we didn’t really talk about tonight is we talked
<br />about another person besides the secretary doing research. The secretarial skills were probably not the
<br />best for research skills, and that we probably, as the research questions come up, we probably could
<br />contract with a university student, with somebody like that that has better skills than the secretary,
<br />however, that’s open to negotiation. That wasn’t a hard -. We were just kind of bouncing the ball
<br />around.
<br />HIGASHI: It’s not on the table though.
<br />RAY: Roland.
<br />HIGASHI: You know, you talked about a person who needs to digest all the information and reduce to
<br />writing in the brainstorming session. I think the proposal is to have a PR firm kind of do it all, and I
<br />expect for the fee that all of the information that was presented would be presented back to us in some
<br />kind of written form. So I don’t think the secretary, you know, should be there to take all -, I don’t know
<br />how long the meeting is going to last but -.
<br />RAY: That’s not what I was thinking of. I was thinking of once you hold these meetings and, you know,
<br />not only the people -.
<br />HERKES: You open the dam.
<br />RAY: There but, you know, they’re going to be publicized. You know, I assume the press, you know,
<br />we’ll have press coverage, and then of a sudden, you know, it’s like the box is open, you know,
<br />everybody’s saying, hey, where you guys going? This was -, this came up, that came up. And I think,
<br />you know, I would anticipate we’re going to get, you know, a lot of, you know, immediately get a lot of
<br />questions and a lot of people that, you know, want to input.
<br />HIGASHI: At our brainstorming session, is that what you’re talking about?
<br />RAY: Yeah. Well, from that.
<br />HIGASHI: Okay.
<br />RAY: And -, but I think we can deal with that in part, and we’ll discuss that, you know, when we get
<br />into, you know, the communications, public relations report, how we can be, you know, pro-active to
<br />contact people, let people know ahead of time what it is we’re up to, you know, how they can respond to
<br />it, what the process is, and so hopefully we can, you know, mitigate some of that. But, you know, I think
<br />-, I would expect, you know, we’re going to get a lot of, you know, a lot of calls, a lot of questions
<br />generated by those meetings. So that’s the only question I had with the secretary not coming on until
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