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expense, a lot will actively recruit those students to come and make application, but I don't see us there. Mary Ann We are not there. High And, what I am saying is those communities have recognized the fact that if you are going to encourage and hire minorities, you have go to get out there and find them, and you have got to encourage them to make application. And, then if we are doing a job of supplying them with study guides to get ready for the civil service test, that is great. The problem that we run into is a lot of them can't pass the exit test. So, we provide those exit study guides and we provide someone to tutor them so they can pass the exit test and become qualified. It appears to me that we could help our efforts by increasing and stepping up our recruitment efforts. Malone We do that. Did we decide awhile ago that we wanted to recruit at colleges, I thought we said that the people that were getting a college degree were not oriented toward the Fire Department. Harris I am just saying, as is, that I very rarely found no interest in being a fireman. High We could drive in a city vehicle spend $6.00 for somebody a meal, and what we do is for Jarvis, for example, we have the two Jenkins kids down there going to school. Aaron, who is a good candidate that we might pursue for a fireman or police. Same thing down in Wyle College right now Edith Bills son is down there. Those are our contacts to get those kids to get those kids to come here and that is what we do to encourage them to come back, and it is not going to cost the city a heck of a lot of money to drive. It is not going to cost anything to go to Texas College when they go to that job fair in the spring and recruit kids. When people start seeing us actively participating and doing things like that, then it puts our name in the forefront. Burgin How does your web site. How effective is that. High We feel that is very effective because applicants are able to apply