I believe we have considered that in the collaborative process on the State level which gets all of those people together. They have to agree. The collaborative process then on the local level, again, all of those must agree. And the whole idea is to make sure that the local level has most to say about this whole program, because we believe that we have failed prior to that, and that is why we have written it in this fashion.
Discussing the importance of local input in program development during a floor speech.
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