mr. courtney's service, that would be october. so that's eight months. and then in october, i am, according to not the rules of order but tradition, i would be the candidate for president for the following year. therefore, i would be serving 20 months as president and truthfully, i really would like to just serve one year as stated in our rules. so this is for discussion only. we're not voting on this. that's what i would like to submit. >> i have some thoughts o on th. i remember when we voted this on 2012 to establish october because it is shortly after the terms. it's the beginning the terms for all commissioners or three of the five commissioners. it gave a month for the nominated commissioners to be approved and appointed. when there's a full compliment, there's a vote of the election of offices. that would then mean that the officers would serve almost an entire year, until at least august, until they might cycle off. if we changed it to february, in perpetuity, if we still maintain the august date for commissioners coming on, in perpetuity there w