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don't have anybody. Let's say you can't find anybody. Let's say nobody steps forward. What you're proposing sounds good but let's say there are nobody for that specific, or particular, Commission. What do you do? You still stay with the 30 day holdover? That was our concern and that's why we brought it up. TANAKA: Hopefully the Administration Will be able to submit names to the County Council, so it depends on whether - there's a couple of stages before you get to confirmation. Number one is Administration nominating the names to County Council, so that's step number one. So the time period there, and then the confirmation time by the Council. So it depends on where the bottleneck is, I guess. But yes, assuming that nobody steps forward, that the Mayor has no one to recommend, yes, the 30 day would hold. We hope that that wouldn't happen if we started the recruiting process early, and part of that, also, is because there's so much to learn, we would like to see the new Commissioners come on in January, or February at the latest, so everybody starts off from the beginning part of the year, instead of somebody coming in in April and June, and they're having to catch up, come up to speed. As far as the training, because nothing like this has been implemented yet, as soon as the person comes on, whether it's January 1st or April lst, or whatever, that person starts their training at that time, so you're in the meeting and that's your training. So having to catch up with all of that. MARTIN: More or less I agree with the concept except for the fact that there's going to be certain Commissions where you're not going to find anybody to step forward. Administration may not be able to find anybody, and I don't think the 30 days is going to be enough as a holdover. I think we're going to need some leeway there. RAY: Questions? Roland. HIGASHI: I think the training concept is good but I don't think the Charter's the place to put something like that. I think it's something administratively they could handle. Maybe as a Commission, you could talk to the Planning Commissioner that when we have new people, we should run 'through an indoctrination and training, but I don't think it should be in the Charter. RAY: Kevin. BALOG: Two questions only. The first one, do you have knowledge if the current Administration has ever stopped looking for people to serve on the various Boards and Commissions? RAY: Has ever stopped what? BALOG: In other words, do you know - I mean we keep hearing that, oh the 10