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BALOG: A meeting of the whole, which would be the entire Commission, so all I'm <br />saying is for you have a subcommittee, that's all right, too, to me. I'm not saying that I think we <br />all have to attend all the meetings, because all of us have different peaks and interests in certain <br />things in the Charter anyway. And instead of burning us out to -, all of us out, like Mr. Bess said, <br />he, personally, would like to attend every meeting. Maybe I would, too, but other people might <br />only have an interest maybe in Public Works or Finance or whatever, Parks and Recreation. So <br />all I'm saying is if that's -, if they don't want the option to attend, that's all right with me, too. <br />I'm not saying that they have to attend every meeting. <br />RAY: I was thinking mainly more from a research standpoint. <br />HERKES: Yeah. <br />RAY: A subcommittee, right, rather than -. <br />HERKES: Right. <br />RAY: Yeah. Okay. <br />BESS: Yeah, that -. <br />BALOG: Oh. <br />BESS: That's what I was thinking. And, I mean, if I understand where we are <br />here is that number one, we have set up a schedule of public hearings. That's, you know, a <br />heavy-duty schedule. So now what we want to try to do is we say, well, those are a lot of <br />meetings, but maybe some of those meetings we can combine departmental comments with those. <br />Now, one, where I'm at is that everyone's invited to go to all of these public hearings. If they <br />can't make it, hard luck, that we not have committees set up to take public testimony. <br />IRVINE: I agree. <br />BESS: Two, that what we do is that we say, you know what, because in the <br />interest of our time, we would accept departmental testimony, and we would specify what those <br />dates are so everyone would know what they were, and they make their judgment as to whether <br />or not they were going to be there or not. And then in terms of public hearing and allowing <br />public to testify, look, we're accepting public statements. Thank you. We're pau with the public <br />statements. Now we go to the departments, or we do it in reverse. But what I'm saying is that <br />the public doesn't really get to engage the department heads, that's not what those are all about. <br />RAY: <br />HERKES: <br />Right. Okay. Ms. Herkes. <br />And we have more research to do than just department heads. If we talk <br />7 <br />