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• <br />dealing with the planning issues. <br />BESS: Yes. <br />L' ORANGE: <br />chairperson. <br />We got some very good input from the Planning Commission, from the <br />BESS: And how did you stimulate commission involvement? Was it -? <br />L'ORANGE: They were invited, I assume. <br />BESS: Did you have a public relations firm? And if so, at what point in time and <br />what function did it serve? <br />YUEN: No. <br />BETHEA: I don't think we did, no. <br />YUEN: No. <br />L'ORANGE: Couldn't afford it. <br />• BESS: Do you see a need for a public relations firm? <br />YUEN: We did prepare a mailing about what was going to be, what was being <br />proposed, and that was just done -. I think we hired somebody to -, just strictly for the graphic <br />aspect of it. <br />BETHEA: It was at the end, wasn't it? <br />YUEN: That was at the very end. <br />• <br />BESS: Do you see that a public relations firm at an earlier point in time would <br />have been helpful? <br />BETHEA: I don't. <br />BESS: I guess -, so you see the function of a public relations firm as being one <br />that, basically, puts out the message after the fact. All the work has been done, and it's just kind <br />of frosting on the cake. <br />YUEN: Well, we were -, I think it's -, it is part of the Commission's responsibility <br />to explain to the public what is being proposed in a neutral fashion, which is what we tried to do <br />21 <br />