Dr. Mary Kelly:

From 2004 to 2011, the number of applications coming in overwhelmed the staff. In 2011, when we had a full complement of eight board members, including the chairman, we reached 81% at the end of the year. We were heading towards the 90% objective at that point. With a board with those numbers, we can do that again. The fact that we were down to half the board for about six months of the year meant we could only have one meeting at a time. At the moment, we are running two meetings every morning with three people each and three meetings some mornings with two people each, depending on how that two-person board works out. Since all the cases must go through the board, that is where the bottleneck occurs. Now that I have a full board again, we can get back up to-----