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the kind of area that I think the Commission largely left to me to figure out what were those things. They had some input, certainly from Corp. Counsel and some of the departments that have run into some of these things. So I think that it works well to make a decision on the big things fairly early on. And then I think that we -, on the other things we pretty much marched through, section by section, as a way of just keeping things in order and just trying to keep track of -, sometimes you'll do something in Article II that then you've got to change something in Article XI at the same time and we would keep track of that. But for the most part, after dealing with the big questions, we pretty much just went through things in order. Looking back, it was interesting for me, we have four or five binders like this from -. I don't know if you saved yours. BETHEA: No, I didn't. YUEN:. I'm a pack rat. HERKES: Each of you have four binders like that? YUEN: \ .Pardon me? HERKES: Each of you have four binders like that? YUEN: Yeah. We had a lot of -, we had a binder probably that's just minutes like this, and then I wrote a lot of things. There's some background materials, other people's charters, things from the mainland, civics textbook type things on different forms of municipal government. I was -, and we have all these press clippings that I was looking through, which are very interesting. And I realized that one of the things that happens when you're working on a Charter Commission is that there's -, your -, a lot of the work is inspired by things that have happened in the past few years in the County government that have caused problems or have issues that have come up, and I -. That's not a bad thing, you know, that's the natural thing. You're going to react to certain things that have come up. Before the last Charter Commission, there had been a controversy involving the Police Department which is still not completely resolved, but there was a controversy involving the Police Department and the Commission and the powers of the Commission, and that led, I think, ,directly to some of the things that were proposed as changes in the Charter. Mayor Akana had passed away, and that led directly to some suggestions about what-, and changes in when you have a special election to fill a vacancy, when you wouldn't have a special election. If the period of time was quite short, you'd just let the Managing -Director carry over until the next regular election, those kind -, those are a couple of things. The budgeting things -. 12