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Around the budget and specifically around some of the Unfunded Mandates that are here with the department. One of the things that came up that i also wanted to ask acting director osman about was we talked about potentially requesting general fund money to support the hacto work that we were doing and i didnt know if that was any progress had been made on that or that was something we were going to do in the future. I had a conversation with our budget analyst this afternoon about that. Its looking difficult. Lets put it that way. We havent given up yet. So, its actually for the Green Transpor...

And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you pu...

Announcement is we hope to finalize our agenda for the joint puc Environment Commission on friday. Meeting should go about up to two hours. The agenda is a joint agenda, so, you go back and forth . How does that work . So, weve been this meeting will help inform thoughts and ive had i think i had heard from maybe commissioner wald had given me some ideas. So, ideas from her and ideas here today i think give a clear sense of what to propose and ive already proposed to the Commission President some of those ideas. They wanted to hear the 100 Renewable Energy discussion, where our rules and respo...

And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you pu...

Involved here. We dont want like 12 people [multiple voices] theres also the winnowing process. You may want to use the Search Committee to reduce the number of candidates because the search firm could come back with six good candidates. You have to figure out how do you narrow that down, how do you most effectively narrow that down to the finalist [speaker not understood]. So, there are a few logistical things to work out. The logistics, obviously be in closed session, it will be done in such a way that we would not have candidates see each other. We went to Great Lengths the last time. We di...