Hi, Having just voted affirmatively for a motion I spoke against, I figured I should put a brief explanation into the record. As I stated during the call and in previous emails I think: - council members should always be free to explain their votes if they so desire and that it should not take a special motion to enable this activity. - task force members are always free to, and in fact responsible for, paying attention to input from the community and from other stakeholders - it seems like it should be standard policy for the council to consult with the advisory committees before making a final decision on the final report from a task force. In fact I thought this was one of the reasons for liaison relationships. (BTW, I have wondered whether we should we have reciprocal liaisons on the advisory committees?) - the council should always consider a report carefully and reconsider any of its previous decisions in the light of new analyses or new facts. For the reasons above, I thought that most of the motion was at best superfluous. I did think that it would be useful for the staff to produce a summary of the input and was unwilling to vote against a motion that was explicit in its support of council openness. I, therefore, voted affirmatively. a.