This is just a thought on process. It seems to me that if the committee were to write a letter, we would need a meeting between drafting and reviewing the final letter. Perhaps, provisionally, a letter could be drafted so that at the next meeting we could decide one way or the other what we want to do, and then if we decide to go ahead with it, the letter is already ready. Does that make some sense?
On November 30th, 2016. See this statement in context.