. >> hello commissioners, charlie marsteller. we had strategic meetings on saturday mornings, like a light breakfast opportunity and coffee, particularly. that would wake us up and we would talk about the agendas for the upcoming year. i like the concept of a greater conference for policy development. but i see those as a two-step process, because we really have one series or process now right on our agenda. that is what we're going to be doing maybe as close as the november ballot? so i would suggest that you might want to do a hybrid approach. work on the strategic planning conference for the long-term, where you invite international or national representatives to come in and right now then focus on what you are planning to do for the balance of the year. and what is doable? i have broken these down to easy to do in-house, harder to do in-house requires a vote by the board and requires a vote by the people. and then i took various concepts that a number of us have been talking about and tried to plug them in. i saw that is a go