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HERKES: That's right. HENRY: And Meg's last name? IRVINE: K -o -n. HENRY: Thank you. RAY: Any other questions? All in favor? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. RAY: Okay, the minutes are approved. Financial Status Report. We don't have an updated report from the last meeting so it's basically the same as shown in the last report. Communications. In your packets: Agenda for the meeting next Wednesday, the 9th, that we have in Hilo. Remember, it's at 5:00 p.m. That's our regular scheduled meeting. A letter from Mr. Scott and a communication from Mr. Ben of the Department of Civil Service. Unfinished Business. I guess we can just go right down the line and deal with these one by one, in this order, and then I'll just need help from everybody in terms of bringing up other things that we need to cover. But, as I communicated in the memo that I sent out, if we're going to follow the tentative schedule we talked about, I don't think we have a whole lot of latitude in terms of more time. We need to pretty much wrap things up as far as our preliminary recommendations, so that we can come up with the dates and set a series of public hearings, so we can go through that phase of input and have time to refine and incorporate that input into final Amendments, or recommended Amendments, and develop the language around those, and have our attorney have time to do that so we've got ample time to, there again, take that out to the general public. So, I think there is some sense of urgency, especially if it's anything at all major. Let's try to get everything dealt with today, at least as far as deciding if we're going forward or going to table it. We'll start with Unfinished Business, A. Environmental Department/Commission. Does anybody want to speak to that? Sue. IRVINE: I guess I could add that I did do a little more homework on this. I went to website for Longview, Washington, which has, like, 34,000 people. It's more rural and smaller than the other places I looked at. They do separate their Public Works Department into Utilities and Public Works, sort of, along the lines that I mentioned previously. I then talked with Mr. Boucher at our Wastewater Division about the possibility of an Environmental Services Department, or Commission, and he 2