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MR. OMONAKA: I like the idea, very much. If we can proceed in what Mr. Ishida suggests we do. If we broke up intodifferent committees with different assignments by sections and if we don"'t make decisions, would this be okay with the Sunshine Law? - - -- -- - MR. ODA: I. think this is an internal organi- zational matter and it doesn ' t have to be put on the agenda. It can be handled at this point. MR. OMONAKA: To review. . .each committee,`getting certain assigned parts of the charter. MR. ODA: Right, we are not going into any substantive matters of discussion. Just organizational matters. That is what we doing, right? MR. OMONAKA: No, I think Mr. Ishida is suggesting we take it one step further and make a recommendation or at least MR. ODA: But not today. It is just a matter of organizing today. MR. ISHIDA: I think what Akira is asking is assuming we do organize, can these committees function on their own without giving notice to the public. What the committees will be doing will not be making decisions, they will just be putting up some kind of proposals to be presented to the commission. MR. SCHUTTE: Why is it not possible that we take so many sections of this charter for a specific week, for a specific meeting and in the meantime everybody has the opportunity of reviewing the sections prior to coming to the meeting and set it up in our agenda and we can openly discuss it the following week. Then pick up another-additional sections to work on for the week thereafter to conform to the Sunshine Law without having the problems of possibly making decisions outside of the public. It gives us the opportunity to really look it over and to disucsss whatever sections we have in open session. We have six or eight articles and we may go over three or four that may not warrant any changes but in leaving it open everybody has an opportunity to put in something to it. MR. ODA_ : Mr. Chairman, I think I misunderstood the previous question. if the question as I now understand it is that the commission will be broken up into a number of groups, committees to make studies and come up with a general recommenda- tion, I would say that under those kinds of circumstances that those subgroups would have to have open meetings just like we are right now and discuss all matters openly. There cannot be any special private sessions at somebody' s house or anything like that, or in the library for that matter. So that would have to conform to the Sunshine. Law. - 5 -