Non-Technical Executive Summary of ECF 3

The attached document displays the changes that Don Bergeron would have us make in the "Lay Person's" guide to ECF 3.0 which was developed by a committee, except that I rewrote the document which Don submitted so it could be seen, using Word's "Track Changes," what, exactly, he would have us change in it. I decided that asking you to read both versions without the tool of "Track Changes" would have made it impossible for us to see the differences clearly.

When we first began the process, a committee was formed to work with a draft I had begun on my own, to explain ECF 3.0 to a non-technical audience of court decision makers such as judges, clerks, and administrators. I asked the committee at that time to submit to me their input as additions, changes, deletions in the text of the draft. Most were comfortable with doing so. Don sent me a commentary with observations and ideas about the document, but I was not comfortable about trying to develop Don's statements into textual changes--I could not possibly interpret his input correctly because it belonged to him. Accordingly, I asked Don if he would contribute specific changes as his input on improving the document. The document he submitted reorganized and rewrote some of the text of the committee document, but it also added headings and subheadings and sections and language of his own. However, it had not been prepared with Word's "Track Changes."

I believed the only way I could compare the version others had given input on with what Don gave me was to create this document, but using Word's "Track Changes" tool. Because I feared that would take substantial time and I have been fully occupied with other duties, I had put off doing that until today - I am glad it took me less time than I had imagined - about 3 hours was required. I am sorry to give you short turnaround to review it before tomorrow's meeting.

In this version of the document, the edits are marked with my initials, but they all belong to Don. Where he inserted comments, I have put them into the "Comment" fields in Word. I reproduced exactly what Don wrote, in order to be sure his suggested changes are correctly and completely represented for you to review. (One exception: I did not physically move the diagram created to show the MDEs, but I noted where Don would have them relocated.)

Separately, I will forward the document as it had been reviewed by the other members of the committee, so comparison can be made. The TC needs to discuss and decide what to do with these very different versions of a "layperson's guide."

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