I'm on the same issue. As I look at the inventory of the work in progress, as I look at the fall 2009 report, and as I look at what may be coming up this spring, we have stuff in the inventory going back to 2007. You can call it a backlog, but I'm concerned about the inventory. I don't suppose it ever gets stale on this committee, but it's really getting long in the tooth. In terms of the currency of our work, I just get a sense that we're always going to be working on backlogged stuff going back two or three years.
Perhaps this should go to steering committee. I'd like to recommend, or encourage the committee, that we try to get the backlog brought up a bit closer to current, to 2010.
Those are my thoughts. Perhaps I'll take that up at steering committee, or the chair will ensure that it is.
Thank you.