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P R O C E E D I N G STime: 8:12 a.m.CHAIRMAN LONG: Welcome, everyone. Is this on? Okay.First of all, I want to -- Peggy, would you mind introducing yourself, sitting in for Dennis today. Would you introduce yourself to the group?MS. QUIGG: Good morning. I am Peggy Quigg, and I am the Director of theDivision of Community Programs at CSAP, SAMHSA, and basically I have the Drug Freecommunities Programs and our HIV and Methamphetamine Programs in our portfolio, and happy to be sitting in for Dennis this morning.CHAIRMAN LONG: And we did that on purpose. As she was shutting that off,Fred was just telling me. Dave, just as you are getting ready to start, I am going to do that so it willremind you.If you will -- For some of you, to your right, some of you to turn around and look,on the table on my extreme right up against that wall, you will see a row of notebooks, and thosenotebooks are filled with all of our meetings, minutes of all of our meetings and all of our conferencecalls.So that if there is a need or someone has -- As we talk about some of these thingsand making recommendations, if that comes up, we do have a back-up to double check.That is a perfect segue into -- and Bill, thank you very much. I thought you did anexcellent job. I know this is very difficult. What you really received and have in front of you, the potential recommendations. It is about a five or six-page document.What you have there in front of you is a synthesis of all of the things that arecontained in all of those books up against the wall. So, Bill, an excellent job in bringing that fromseveral thousand pages to five or six. We appreciate that.First of all, I want to go to public comment, and then after public comment we willtalk about what we will be doing for the day and how we might approach it and what we are lookingfor when we walk out of here this afternoon.So first of all, I would ask: Is there anyone that wishes to make a publiccomment? Hearing none, we will then go to talking about what will happen -- or what we arelooking for, for today. That is this.As indicated earlier, Bill, excellent job with all these sheets in front of us. We havethe three areas and the questions that the Secretary asked. So what we would be looking at today asan objective would be to take those three areas that we have talked about and head hearingsregarding and have -- start to put down some very specific recommendations. Now these recommendations will be, as you know, what you as experts sittingaround this table think and feel, and then putting that together and correlating them with the thingswe heard in the hearings. You will be the filter. So what you say because of your years of experienceand expertise will then be the recommendations that we are going to put down, and it will be in thosethree areas that we spent so much time on.Those three areas, of course, State Grants Program -- we will start in that order.First, we will have the State Grants Program, then the Unsafe Schools Choice Option, and thenthirdly, Data.So if we could concentrate on the recommendations, I am not sure that we needto spend a lot of time going back over just the findings or the facts, but we might have to discusssome of those, of course, to get to the recommendations.So with that in mind -- and I will stop right there. Any other comments that
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