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Commissioner Carey: The other point I would like to make, and I agree with Commissioner Jacobs, that I think the best public policy-making arises out of the situation where you have many views taken into consideration, and he asked specifically to hear from those people who don't want any additional funding from the County school system. But I think we need to hear from everyone, on both sides of this issue and I have heard from some people on both sides and I have heard from people who haven't made up their minds yet, and I hope this report will help people make up their minds about this issue one way or the other because it is an excellent report and there is a lot of information in it. I learned something that I had forgotten, over the last 15 years. want to encourage members of the public to share their views and opinions with us and with the other members of the public because this is an educational process for all of us, we need to hear from people on bath sides of this issue, from both school systems as we have already. I think it needs to be more public sa that people who are not in the room and people who may be looking at the television when we have these hearings also have a flavor far what the opinions are in this Gounty. I also want to say that I raised this issue earlier in the year because I wanted us to have this kind of dialogue and the kind of dialogue we are having around this County about whether our current system of doing business and funding our schools is fair to every child. And, as a County Commissioner, I feel I have a responsibility to every child in this County and I have asked the question as I have gone about this County, whether if we had the opportunity to plan a system today, to start planning a new system that provides an equal opportunity for full educational achievement for every child regardless of where he or she lives and regardless of what their family income is, would we do it the way we are doing it now and design a system that has two separate systems that are unequally funded. I ask that question to people who are looking at us tonight and I have had only one person to tell me yes they would do it the same way since I have been asking that question. Chair Brown: Any other comments, questions? Commissioner Jacobs: I just wanted to make a few comments, first regarding what Commission Halkiotis said about this being a goal. I do think it is important to reiterate a few of the items of information that are in the report. But also to start with the point that Commissioner Halkiotis made. It is important for us to be open to ideas and to have a full discussion of ideas. That doesn't mean we are predisposed to an answer. That is what this process is about, that is why we have questions that we want to have answered, and that is why we want to hear from the public in public hearings and in others venues that may be offered in the future. This is a process of discovery to some extent; as Dr. Pedersen said, we have already discovered some perhaps surprising similarities in the two school systems that we might not have realized otherwise. I also think it is worth repeating for those who keep worrying about it that we are not going to cut funding for the higher funded system, that by law we will not do that and we would not do that anyway. As the numbers showed in the past 15 years the County spent $277 million dollars just on capital facilities for schools. Somewhere near three quarters of our capital spending has been on schools. Also that we have a target of 48.1 °~ of our budget for school spending. It is not a cap, it is not a limit, it is a goal and so far we have exceeded it every year since we adopted the 48.1 % target, and that was