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meeting monthly and we are hardly finished with one meeting
and then we are already into the next and we are really not
quite ready, we thought, so we hoped we could prevail on
our chair to consider possibly changing our schedule
somewhat. We thought we would be more productive if we did
that. These are all matters for discussion.
But there is another aspect of the same thing
and that is we are -- when we did the cloning report we
were -- we did not have the amount of staff that is usual
for a commission and so here we are we were all commenting
on drafts that had not yet become drafts and they went back
and forth, and in and out, and then -- a very unusual way
of writing a report. It has to be one of the most unusual
way in writing a report that I have ever seen.
Whereas, we now have excellent staff and staff
in-depth and we thought that this would also allow for a
much better use of staff, all of whom are really expert
now, to circulate drafts, to make proposals, to do the
research so that we have something in hand and we are
working on that before we get to a meeting and even as was
just suggested a lunch so that we are at several levels.
We are hearing one thing that is maybe ready for a couple
of meetings down the line and another thing and so forth.
And that is something that we are able to do now because of