, we're talking about the cost associated with it and then also we've exchanged some emails with mr. hasz who, as you know from the last hearing, has a huge amount of research available that we think could be very beneficial for the consultant in expediting the completion of this work. so, with that, and pending any of your comments or questions or those from the public i would recommend or request that you continue this item to a december hearing, either the first or second hearing in december. by then we certainly will have a plan and if we are able to engage -- if we have the funds and we are able to engage the consultant, we won't wait until december to do that, we'll do that now, but we'll have something more meaningful to report to you by the end of the year. >> commissioner johns. >> thank you. when you discuss the items of cost with the consultants may i suggest you consider pointing out to them that part of the basis upon which they were hired was the an tits paition that they would do a good job and with a plethora of factual errors in the report, one could argue that they ought