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• RAY: Sure, and I think the only thing to be sensitive to is we're all volunteers. We will have met 30 something times by then so as the time allows, but I'm sure everybody is - HOLSCHUH: Or maybe, if I may, I happen to be president of our community association. I wouldn't begin to want to try to explain this with the expertise you did, but maybe you could prepare a packet of how to explain it for those of us who are in associations. Then we wouldn't have to bother you folks. RAY: Yes, sure. And understand that it is, like 1 said, very much a work in progress so there are Tots of things on here already that we're rethinking just how's that going to work. And I think I can say that of all the things that we're getting input from right now in regard to other changes, I think we've looked at everything that everybody's discussing, so probably the most likely things we'd be likely to consider, and include, is things that we haven't thought of, and I'm sure there are lots of things that we probably haven't thought of, or ways to approach it. So we're very open to that. HERKES: Can I just add to that? Fred, when you were talking about community associations, you were talking from August to November, to the election. I would encourage you to get your community associations to this month's meetings because this is when it's in transition. After August, the Elections Office, the County Clerk, has told us we're going to have to have something ready to go. So, at that time, it will be explaining what's on the ballot, rather than having an opportunity of input. So the input might be better come at this time than later. And I think the document that Chris prepared which is over on the table, you can take as many copies as you like, is fairly well explanatory. The big one. RAY: Just make sure you explain to people, like I say, that it's a work in progress and to regard it that way. Now, Statements from the Public. We have two folks signed up. First, Bill Graham. And Bill, use the mike please. GRAHAM: Thanks for the very straight forward explanation, John and the rest of you. It does feel like the candor that you're bringing to the process is real welcome and I'm sorry there's not more people that are aware of that. I had two little, what I would call, very minor issues I wanted to just bring up because they're clear and straight forward, first. One is that this just occurred to me today when you were talking about the Department of Environmental Services, to me that sounds like a euphemism taken to the extreme. It sounds like a Department of Waste Management, and you're calling it Environmental Services. I don't know. That kind of thing feels a little offensive in some ways so maybe you'd do well to get rid of that. IRVINE: It's straight from the mainland. 10