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• they didn't put it up on the bulletin board and invite everybody to come up and say what they thought. People have -, you know, County employees, they do have free speech, you know. If they want to come to this Commission and say, well, we don't really need a deputy director in our department or something like that, they, theoretically, they have the right to do that. I think that sure, we did get more of the viewpoint of somebody in the director's position. I was surprised that there was -, there were a couple of instances of people who were a little lower down who came and presented things that I took not to be completely the party line though, so there was a little bit of freedom there. BESS: Well, I -, the reason I raised that, I know that there may be people in higher positions that are appointees that may not have the understanding of government that some of the ones that have been in there for a number of years, and the question would be how do you stimulate that kind of input? YUEN: Yeah. BESS: So we don't get a party line. YUEN: Yeah. BESS: I mean, what you're going to have is -, I mean, I don't know how the current mayor is going to handle this. • YUEN: Yeah. BESS: But there could very well be an administrative meeting to suggest, you know, how the input to the Charter Commission would be handled, and -. ' L'ORANGE: Yeah, but Steve -. BESS: what -. I guess I'd just like to stimulate as broad a based input as possible, is L'ORANGE: The letters come to -, I'm on the Board of Appeals. The letter came to the Chairman of the Board of Appeals. If there's problems with the Board of Appeals process, the Board is the one that's going to be familiar with the community and whatever hakakas. I don't recall -, we didn't decide anything at the last meeting that I recall; we had a very long meeting. But we're going to have a chance to respond if we care to respond, and that will not necessarily be an administrative response. BESS: L' ORANGE: • Correct. I think we got stuck in the Planning Commission, the Commission itself, 20