Second Committee Meeting

The committee met again this evening in Concord, NH. As with the first meeting, the discussion was wide ranging but productive in clarifying issues and continuing to craft our ultimate report. Each of the members of the committee had reviewed all of the paper files we have received and many of the electronic documents. While there may be a little more to do in this regard, we think we have a handle on most of the documents now.

We received and reviewed the seven "thematic" documents we decided upon at our last meeting. Though different by necessity given their themes, each relates to the events over the last five years, and most include a chronology supporting their description of the events.

In essence, we have a good description of the "What". The next piece to be written down would be the "why" part.

We have committed to have a time-line for the Board of Directors by their next meeting, Tuesday, August 28. Jordan will synthesize this from the various "thematic" reports.

We have identified a number of people in the Star Island community with which we wish to talk. We have not scheduled formal "interviews" but several of the committee members felt that learning how these events transpired from the viewpoints of people involved in the process in different ways would be constructive. We expect to have those conversations over the coming days.

The committee is hoping to have a product we can release some time in October. In order to do this we need to have the "Why" portion of our documents completed in early September so that we can spend the balance of the month checking them and integrating all this material into a coherent whole.

Our next meeting will be in Concord on September 10th.