Until the commission no longer defers to the Director for final decisions, they will be completely useless to our cause. We've seen plenty of examples where the commission went to bat for us, only to have the Director put the kibosh on the whole deal and restore the status quo to know this is true.

Keep the commission if you think we must, but be assured that any time you spend before them is wasted time until they are given real, actual AUTHORITY over policy. Absent that, they are only there to take the heat that belongs under the Director's a$$.