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reasonable, and I would wonder if Judge Sherbow recognizing
that we have now placed within the transcript itself this
concensus in regard to how we feel about the importance
of the public in this relationship, would be willing to
withdraw his motion, realizing that we do believe with him
the significance of the public hearing for the basic
decisions that are to be made?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: No, I do not withdraw it.
On the contrary, I think that no matter how any of us feel
about a compromise, and I am sure nobody is happy about it,
if we do not have this safeguard in it, it is something
that was warned about in the Curlett Commission report, it
was referred to by the governor --lam sorry, I do not
have his exact language in front of me; I loaned my copy
to the vice-chairman yesterday, where the governor, if I
recall it correctly, indicated the idea that there should
be a public forum for these matters. I don't know that he
went as far as to suggest that all the meetings should be
public, but I think you are creating a body whose useful-
ness is severly hampered and restricted unless there is the