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• or change them. We would only shorten them if they were too long, because they'd have to fit on this page. Those, as you notice, some of them are half pages but we feel we'll give them a full page. And it's newspaper print. It's cheap to do. I've gotten some estimates on it. The real work is in getting it print -ready and getting all the information. And the League is well on its way in preparing it so if you have any friends in the County Council, we think it's time for them to commit to funding the mail -out and the simple mailing, or the printing of it, because it could be done on bulk rate, and it would be very reasonable. All they'd have to do is take a look at how much money they spend on advertising in newspapers for the elections, and all the other things that they pay for that could be put into this kind of a thing. And so, thank you very much, and I'm open to questions, and I've also asked other members of the League to be here, who may want to add on to what I've said, or may have something as an individual. The statement I've made for you, on what we have approved, is what we have actually voted on. RAY: Just a little bit of clarification on the pamphlet. Did you have a cost estimate on that from printing and mailing? ISBELL: I asked for some written. I've gotten some oral but 1 don't want to use hearsay because I've learned that if it isn't in writing, it's not worth repeating, and so, we are in the process of getting some of those now. Even the estimates I heard were very reasonable, and I know, looking at some of the newspapers and things that are put in by the County and the State, there's an awful lot of money spent on elections. RAY: Because we do have a budget to address, as far as the Charter Amendments, so maybe we could combine or incorporate in some way. ISBELL: We'd be happy to help you. RAY: Have you discussed this and gotten any advocacy from any individual Council members to come up with the funding? ISBELL: Yes, we have. RAY: So, you anticipate that the County Council, or members of the County Council, are going to pursue this? ISBELL: We know it will be introduced. We don't know for sure because we're trying to get all of the information before it creates a problem, and if you have all your homework done, and the information, it just subdues any big antagonistic things about how much it's going to cost. So, we're very careful about it. We want to make sure we get all our ducks in a row and find out what it would be printed in the State, and the prison also, as you know, has a printing press, so we're looking at maybe asking - they don't print money, of course, but we have to look at what is the most reasonable 14