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Page 9 I can?╟╓t automatically change the billing that goes out to a hotel without first bringing this before the Board any more than I can approve a new member coming in or take an old member who has become delinquent or resigned oroff the record. So this is how it has happened, Lee, and---- LEE FISHER: It still doesn't sound fair to me because it would seem to me that, Mr. Chairman, if I may, that when this formula was approved and within, I'm sure six months of the approval that there were ad- ditional hotel rooms in somebody's hotel and additional gains. If this hotel had been built right from the start, no questions asked, you were already licensed to do that because you were already licensed ??to do that because you were licensed by formula, not by numbers and a formula was approved by the owners, the only thing is nobody ever bothered to bill. CEDRIC OLSON: But I was instructed by the principals not to do so; that's all I can tell you. MM sssn HARVEY DIEDERICH: Gentlemen, this point has been labored before and I think it?╟╓s history, and let's look forward if we may-- I'm sure there was negligence involved, I don't think there's any argument about it. I don't know on whose part. i(Voice?)......Let's answer the questions clearly, find out what's happened here; let?╟╓s know what we're talking about. I don't think history, Lee is, I don't think we're going to make any money talking about it ?╟÷ I think we've got to make changes from this point for- wardj AL FREEMAN: Let's go back to the original reason why the new proposal was made. It was made in order to build up the jackpot of money for promotion. Herb McDonald and I evolved the system, but Murphy, and there were two other people, five of us and we went to the owners and we got the owners to approve it in order to build up a jackpot of money which we thought would help us promote the area building up and as "The Sun and Fun". Since that time the money hasn't been collected because we didn't come up with the ideas; for one reason, second of all, the Board of Directors didn't come up with the authority Tor us to spend the money; We kept finding that all the money kept being put into a column of expenditure; as a result, it is nobody?╟╓s fault, Lee; we didn't okeh nor would I okeh the checkeach month for the new formula? because where would the money go except to the old standing administrative structure of the Chamber of Commerce, The whole pur- pose in this and the new set-up is simply to get a pot of money to spend on promotion; the trick, we didn?╟╓t get it because we didn't feel inspired enough; Our suggestions weren't listened to by the directors ?╟÷ the directors didn't give us the authority we felt, why should we go to the owners and say "let's spend more money", why should I go and get an okeh for $300 more; $800 or $900 a month. That's why ?╟÷ there is no negligence, no negligence on the part of the directors; no negligence on the part of us, Wel?╟╓ve come to an im- pass; and the whole reason for the impass, I can't