The planes will undoubtedly flow in tomorrow, bringing weekend visitors to East Hampton, and fly out after the weekend, also inevitably causing those under their flight paths and bothered by aircraft noise to once more become irritated and perhaps call a noise hotline to complain.

While a legal decision had been expected on whether three regulations that would restrict access to East Hampton Airport to reduce the impact of aircraft noise will come to bear, town officials announced Wednesday afternoon that the decision has been put off until June 26 at the request of Judge Joanna Seybert, who cited the complexities of the issue.

The East Hampton Town Board adopted laws in April establishing an overnight airport curfew and limiting types of aircraft deemed noisy, such as many helicopters, to one takeoff and landing per week during the summer season and extended curfew hours.

The restrictions, developed in response to ongoing outcries from hundreds of citizens across the East End — many of whom attended a forum on the issue last summer — were to be implemented by Memorial Day, but a lawsuit by aviation interests has kept them up in the air.

At a May 18 conference at United States District Court in Central Islip, Judge Seybert requested three weeks to make a determination regarding the issuance of a preliminary injunctionagainst the laws.

A United States attorney representing the Federal Aviation Administration, which was sued separately by the aviation group, also requested more time. The plaintiffs have asked that the two lawsuits be joined and reviewed together by the court.

While town officials worked for many months in conjunction with fact-finding committees and legal and engineering consultants to craft airport restrictions tailored to the noise problem here, and that they believe are allowable under federal aviation law, opponents charge that the restrictions fall outside of the town’s jurisdiction and of F.A.A. regulations, and will have a detrimental effect on business and the economy here.

An outright ban on helicopter use of the airport during the summer season was originally proposed, but then dropped.

The F.A.A.’s stance on how much authority East Hampton Town may exercise over operations at the airport — which must comply, overall, with federal guidelines — is central to the issue. In 2012 correspondence with former Representative Tim Bishop, the agency said that it would not challenge “reasonable restrictions” imposed by the town. But recently, the agency seems to have indicated it might reverse that stance by expressing support for the temporary restraining order affecting East Hampton’s new laws.

In response, Representative Lee Zeldin, who succeeded Mr. Bishop and is the vice chairman of the subcommittee on aviation, sent a letter to the F.A.A. expressing his disappointment and urging the agency to “stand by its assurances previously made in writing that the Town of East Hampton would not face negative action from the F.A.A. if they chose to enact reasonable restrictions, as long as the town agreed to not take any new F.A.A. funding.”

"The people of East Hampton, through their democratically elected town board,” Mr. Zeldin wrote, “have chosen this path because they believed the F.A.A. would stand by its word.”

The congressman said that he intends “to pursue what is necessary to hold the F.A.A. to its assurances and to work with all interested parties on an effective solution that reduces helicopter noise on the East End this high season and in the long term. Reaching a real solution is more important than politics or bureaucracy,” he said.

After the May 18 meeting with the judge, East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell wrote his own letter to Senator Charles Schumer, expressing his concern about statements by Robert W. Schumacher II, the assistant United States attorney who attended the meeting on behalf of the F.A.A.

They indicated, Mr. Cantwell said, that “the F.A.A. is reneging on its legal interpretation expressed in writing to former U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop.”

“The assistant U.S. attorney and F.A.A. officials said in court this week that the F.A.A. disagrees with the import and legal effect of the agency’s position in its response to Congress,” Mr. Cantwell told Senator Schumer.

The supervisor made an urgent request that Mr. Schumer “write to the F.A.A. to encourage it to respect the clear advice it outlined in its 2012 letter to Mr. Bishop, advice that East Hampton has relied upon in enacting a set of local laws designed to curb aircraft noise impacts on residents across the East End of Long Island.”

Amos Goodman, a financial consultant who lives in Springs, was formally nominated by the Suffolk County Republican Committee on Monday as the party’s candidate to represent the Second Legislative District, a seat now held by Jay Schneiderman, who cannot seek re-election because of term limits. Mr. Goodman, who is mounting his first campaign, will face Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Fleming, the Democratic Party’s candidate, in the November election.

Mr. Goodman had already received the East Hampton and Southampton Town G.O.P.’s backing. In a statement, Tom Knobel, chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee, called Mr. Goodman “an exciting, inspiring leader who will be a highly effective and independent fighter for the East End.”

Mr. Schneiderman, a former East Hampton Town supervisor who was elected to the Legislature in 2003, is running for Southampton Town supervisor. The Second District includes all of East Hampton Town, Southampton Town, and Shelter Island, and a portion of Brookhaven Town.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Mr. Goodman pledged to “tirelessly defend my constituents’ wallets, businesses, jobs, environment, and quality of life.” In February, when he announced his intention to represent the district, he told The Star that “The East End towns are already subsidizing a lot of Suffolk County in terms of paying a lot more in than we’re getting back.” He complained of misplaced priorities and a lack of leadership at the county level, which he said was creating an unfavorable climate for businesses and driving longtime residents away.

Mr. Goodman established a political action committee called Forward Long Island in 2013. He was previously a senior associate of the Cohen Group, a consulting firm founded by William Cohen, a former United States senator and representative who served as secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton.

From 2007 to 2008, he was a fellow at the Project on National Security Reform, a nonpartisan organization formed to update the country’s national security system to better address post-Cold War global security conditions. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and earned a master’s degree in national security studies at Georgetown University. Locally, he is a member of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee and the Maidstone Gun Club, among other organizations.

On one side of the question is the now well-established and very popular resort-night club Surf Lodge, on Edgemere Street in Montauk; on the other, East Hampton Town’s Architectural Review Board.

“I didn’t know that A.R.B. stood for Art Review Board,” said Thomas W. Horn, the club’s lawyer, after his client was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in East Hampton Town Justice Court. Surf Lodge is charged with one count of violating the town code, which requires approval from the Architectural Review Board for signage and exterior changes to a building.

The summons was issued on May 22. According to Mr. Horn, Jen Stark’s wall mural, whose cascading colors wrap around a corner of the building, angered a neighbor enough to bring about a complaint to code enforcement. Mr. Horn asserted that when agents showed up they weren’t even sure what the violation was, but after a phone call, the ticket was written.

Julien Bizalion, Surf Lodge’s director of operations, appeared in court on behalf of the club. “It’s a signed art piece, and it’s temporary,” Mr. Horn argued before Justice Steven Tekulsky.

Michael Sendlenski, attorney for the town, was unmoved, and indicated the town’s willingness to go to trial, which could result in a $1,000 fine. June 26 is the next court date.

“I think it is a little silly,” Mr. Bizalion said outside the courthouse.

SunEdison, a solar energy company, will build solar power plants capable of producing more than four megawatts of electricity on three sites in East Hampton Town.

The company is leasing the land — on Accabonac Road, Bull Path, and at the capped landfill on Springs-Fireplace Road, all in East Hampton — from the town following a vote of the town board last September. The town planning board must approve the proposal. It will consider the Accabonac Road site at its meeting on Wednesday.

SunEdison’s plan for East Hampton is one of five agreements with municipal entities on Long Island. The company has also contracted with Southold Town, Suffolk and Nassau Counties, and the Suffolk County Water Authority. The electricity will be sold to the Long Island Power Authority over the next 20 years through a power purchase agreement, as part of the feed-in tariff program of LIPA’s Clean Solar Initiative. Cumulatively, the five Long Island projects will generate 15 megawatts of electricity.

A statement issued by SunEdison said that construction of the solar plants will create more than 100 jobs in the Long Island area. The plants are expected to produce enough electricity to power more than 1,100 homes.

While the electricity generated by the solar installations falls far short of LIPA’s previously stated goal of 280 megawatts of clean, renewable energy, it will assist East Hampton in achieving its own goals to meet 100 percent of electricity needs with renewable energy sources by 2020 and all of its energy consumption in other sectors, including heating and transportation, with renewable sources by 2030. In December, citing prohibitive cost, LIPA rejected a proposed 35-turbine offshore wind farm that would have been constructed 30 miles east of Montauk and produced some 210 megawatts of electricity.

“It’s helping us get there,” Kim Shaw, director of the town’s Natural Resources Department, said of the solar plants. “The wind farm was the big one, but these are great installations, and besides getting solar on a large scale, the town is leasing the lands, so it’s a win-win.”

Preliminary work is under way at the Accabonac Road and Bull Path sites, Ms. Shaw said, with an “aggressive timetable” for construction pending planning board approval. The installations will be unobtrusive and secure, she said.

Gordian Raacke, executive director of Renewable Energy Long Island and a member of the town’s energy sustainability advisory committee, called the installations “a huge step forward for East Hampton, because we’ve never had solar power plants being built here.”

The “scaled-down versions of what was originally proposed” by LIPA are nonetheless “a quantum leap,” Mr. Raacke said. “You can look at the glass as half full or half empty. These are not small rooftop solar systems — which we also need to grow, and we need to have parking-lot solar installations and on commercial rooftops — but three megawatts of solar power generation constructed here in the Town of East Hampton is a big deal. Obviously, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to achieve a 100-percent clean-energy future, but it always starts with the first few steps.”

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, a Democrat, has won the endorsement of the East Hampton Independence Party for a second run.

The party, which made its announcement on Monday, also selected Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, both incumbent Democrats, as their candidates. Republicans will run Nancy Keeshan of Montauk and Len Czajka of Springs for those posts and Tom Knobel, the party’s chairman, for town supervisor.

Both Ms. Keeshan and Mr. Czajka are first time candidates. Ms. Keeshan, who had contemplated a run for supervisor in 2013, is a partner with her father in Keeshan Real Estate in Montauk. A town planning board member for five years, she has long been active in the Montauk Village Association, a civic group.

Mr. Czajka retired from a career in banking and is involved in the Clearwater Beach Property Owners Association.

Mr. Knobel served on the town board in the 1990s and ran for supervisor in 1997. His nomination is not unexpected, but was made official with a committee vote Tuesday evening.

All three parties endorsed Lisa R. Rana for town justice, Stephen Lynch for superintendent of highways, and Jeanne Nielsen and Jill Massa for town assessors. All are incumbents.

Many candidates will vie for one of nine seats on the town trustees, the governing body established by the Dongan Patent of 1686. Diane McNally, Tim Bock, Sean McCaffrey, and Nat Miller, all incumbents on the Republican ticket, were backed by their party for reelection. The Independence Party also endorsed Mr. Bock and Mr. McCaffrey. Bill Taylor, Brian Byrnes, and Deborah Klughers, incumbent Democrats, received their party’s backing, with Mr. Taylor and Mr. Byrnes also backed by the Independence Party.

The Republicans also endorsed Joe Bloecker, a former trustee who is seeking to rejoin the body, as well as Joshua Davidson, James Grimes, Michael Havens, and Stephen Lynch Jr. Mr. Lynch also received Independence Party backing. Along with their incumbents, the Democrats also selected Francis Bock, Pat Mansir, Rona Klopman, Zachary Cohen, Tyler Armstrong, and Rick Drew to run for trustee. Ms. Mansir, who is vice chairwoman of the Independence Party, also received her party’s backing, while the Independence Party also endorsed Francis Bock, Ms. Klopman, and Mr. Cohen.

The East Hampton Democrats selected their nominees last Thursday, choosing all of the candidates recommended by their 12-member screening committee. Betty Mazur, the group’s vice chairwoman, said the party was pleased that many new applicants had come forward as candidates for trustee and that it was able to present “an unusually diverse slate with a range of relevant experiences.”

Greg Mansley, media director for the Republican Committee, called his party’s selections “a strong ticket. We’re going to go after these people aggressively to strengthen the government here in the town of East Hampton and give it additional transparency,” he said yesterday.

In a release issued on Monday, Elaine Jones, the Independence Party’s chairwoman, wrote that many potential candidates from the Independence, Democratic, and Republican Parties had screened for elected positions. “There was much talent and community concern exhibited both from those interviewed and the screening committee,” Ms. Jones said.

With Reporting by Carissa Katz

East Hampton Town

New Summer Event Fees

As the summer season of social events draws near, the East Hampton Town Board set new fees last Thursday for gatherings held on public properties or at commercial establishments. A $100-a-day application fee will be charged for parties, fund-raisers, and the like. A sliding scale was established for parades, marathons, triathlons, races, and similar events that use the town’s roadways.

Application fees for events with 50 to 99 registered participants were set at $100 a day; those with up to 499 attendees, at $500, and so on, up to $4,000 for events with 2,500 or more people participating. Residents throwing parties on private properties will be exempt from the application fees, as will charitable organizations (though, depending on the number of guests, gathering permits may still be required).

In addition, an “impact fee” will be calculated based on costs to the town for traffic control and any other municipal services that might be required for the event. That fee could be waived by the town board for charitable groups.

A security deposit, on a sliding scale, will be required for use of public properties: $100 for gatherings of 50 to 100 people, up to $1,000 for events with more than 1,000 guests. Residents will not be charged a deposit for gatherings of 100 people or fewer. Event sponsors will, in addition, be required to pay the costs of site cleanup, even above and beyond the security deposit amount, should they fail to meet that responsibility.

Picked for Town Hall Redo

L.K. McLean Associates, a Brookhaven engineering firm, will be hired to develop plans to revamp the Town Hall campus, which will include the future of the old Town Hall building. After soliciting proposals for the architectural services, the town board voted last week to pay McLean $345,000 to do the work.

Food Truck Bids Awarded

Bids were awarded last week to food truck vendors who will gain exclusive rights to set up shop at several public beach locations. The Ditch Witch will pay $38,475 for a three-year contract to remain in the Otis Road location near Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk, where it has operated for a number of years. Scott Bogetti was awarded a three-year, $34,050 contract for a spot at the Ditch parking lot. Kona Ice will set up at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, paying $31,500 for three years, and Matthew Meehan got the vending spot at Gin Beach in Montauk and will pay $9,000 for three years.

Indian Wells Alcohol Ban

Alcohol will again be banned during certain days and times at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett this season, according to a vote of the town board last week. No drinking will be allowed within 1,000 feet of the road ending at Indian Wells during the hours of lifeguard protection on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays through September.

Parking and C.P.F. on the Table

The town board will hold a number of hearings at its Thursday night meeting next week. On the table for discussion will be a parking prohibition along a 1,375-foot stretch of Oakview Highway in East Hampton, on both sides of the street, and allowing East Hampton Town to waive the need for hunters to obtain a State Department of Environmental Conservation permit.

Several hearings will be held on proposed property purchases using the community preservation fund. The properties include Theresa and Hugh Quigley’s 6.4 acres on Swamp Road in East Hampton, at $2.5 million, where a house would be removed and the land returned to its natural state; a 2.75-acre tract at 30 and 32 Three Mile Harbor Road in Springs owned by Jonathan Miller Jr., for $1 million, for open space, and a lot of just over half an acre on Gerard Drive in Springs, owned by the estate of Dorothy King, for $900,000. It also has a residence that would be removed.

The hearings will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall.

Four Preservation Purchases

After hearings last week, the board authorized the acquisition, with the preservation fund, of Mark Vernazza’s 6 South Genesee Court, Montauk, property, a .42-acre vacant lot, for $295,000; of vacant lots totaling 6.5 acres on Sycamore and Cedar Drives in Springs, owned by the Fireplace Road Corporation, for $2.6 million, for open space; of Marilee Foster’s property on Town Line Road in Wainscott, five acres for $600,000, also for open space, and of Mary Marin’s third-acre lot at 54 Lincoln Road in Montauk, for $250,000

The scarcity of parking in Amagansett’s commercial district, along with potential remedies and enforcement, were primary topics of discussion at the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee on Monday.

Supervisor Larry Cantwell, the East Hampton Town Board’s liaison to the committee, suggested that the configuration of the roughly 150 spaces in the municipal lot north of Main Street be revisited. Where the entire back half of the lot now allows what is in effect unlimited parking, a 72-hour limit would be implemented, on the northernmost row only, he said. The remaining spaces would have a 2-hour limit, save for three spaces on either side of the lot’s entrance, behind Amagansett Wines on the west side and the Amagansett Library to the east. Parking in those six spaces, Mr. Cantwell said, would be limited to 30 minutes. The changes, he said, “could free up a lot of these spaces for turnover.”

At present, time limits are loosely enforced, if at all, committee members have often noted. Throughout the winter, many vehicles were buried under snow for weeks or months.

Should new limits be implemented and enforced, Mr. Cantwell said, commercial and residential property owners could be issued a number of permits exempting their vehicles and those of their employees or tenants from the restrictions. He suggested a survey be conducted to determine how many residents and employees would be affected by the proposed changes, pledging to return to the committee with the results.

With Memorial Day weekend looming, “Time is getting short,” the supervisor said. “The sooner we can resolve the question, the sooner we can get something started. Whether it could start in middle of summer, I don’t know.”

After much discussion, the committee decided that there are more long-term spaces than needed and agreed to support the proposal.

The parking lot has consumed much of the committee’s deliberations in recent months, and on Monday night a visitor raised another aspect. Mary Lownes asked Lt. John Claflin, who attended the meeting as the East Hampton Town Police Department’s new liaison to the hamlet, whether a squad car could be stationed in the lot to deter people from “pre-gaming” — drinking alcohol in their cars — before going to nearby bars. The lot is sometimes littered with bottles and cans, she said, presenting a danger to children riding bicycles. “If they see a police car, it’s a deterrent.”

Scheduled foot patrols concentrating on quality-of-life issues happen on weekends and, as permitted, during the week, Lieutenant Claflin said. “I will bring it back and do what I can,” he told Ms. Lownes.

The committee’s seemingly endless campaign for a public restroom in the parking lot was derailed in March by the discovery that a restaurant’s septic system, installed in 2009 on town-owned property (the parking lot) was too close to a well on adjacent property. While the restroom itself met Suffolk County Health Department requirements, the department refused to issue a certificate of occupancy for it, anywhere at all on the parking lot, until the septic system is relocated.

“We continue to work with them,” Mr. Cantwell said. He invited committee members to attend a meeting on Wednesday at Town Hall of property owners adjacent to the parking lot and representatives of the library’s board, who opposed the restroom’s proposed location.

“We’ll see if we can find a way to reach a consensus about where exactly the restroom should go,” said the supervisor. “Hopefully, we’ll come out of that with an agreement and build a bathroom.”

In the past year and a quarter, East Hampton Town has kept spending down, reduced costs, and accrued surplus in its various budget funds, Len Bernard, the town’s budget officer, told the town board last week.

In a report on the town’s financial affairs in 2014 and 2015, to date, the town’s Finance Department credited “prudent and conservative budgeting and close budget monitoring” throughout the year.

“A large reason for our good fund performance is because we spent less than we budgeted for,” Mr. Bernard told the town board.

The practices, under Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell’s administration, have led to recognition by agencies such as Moody’s Investors Services, which, in a report last month, said the town has “strong management and [a] demonstrated ability to restore financial flexibility,” and the Government Finance Officers Association, which, for the first time, last year recognized East Hampton for the caliber of its financial reporting.

Last summer, the town’s credit rating was upgraded to Aa2 by Moody’s, and another upgrade is expected this year.

All of the town’s budget funds built up surplus in 2014, Mr. Bernard said — with the exception of the Highway Department, which tapped $195,851 in surplus to pay for the extensive snow removal services required over the harsh winter.

The fund balance across the town’s major funds grew by more than $2 million last year, according to the budget officer, with all but the scavenger waste fund reaching the 20-percent surplus goal set by the town.

Mr. Bernard said the town was able to reap savings by refinancing bonds and by closing the septic waste transfer station at its old scavenger waste treatment plant, which had been inoperable.

Supervisor Cantwell said at last week’s meeting that he was pleased with the positive financial picture. “A lot of progress was made over the last two years,” he said.

He said he had pinpointed “the need to lower the overall indebtedness of the town” when a review revealed that $1 in every $5 spent was going toward debt repayment.

At 2014’s end, the town’s total indebtedness was more than $109 million, according to the Finance Department report. That was more than $10 million less than the town owed at the end of 2014. About $6 million of the decrease was due to the board’s capital borrowing policy of limiting annual borrowing for capital projects to about $5 million, less than the amount of capital debt being retired for the year.

By the end of 2015, Mr. Bernard reported, East Hampton’s debt is expected to go down by another $6.2 million, and by the end of 2018 the town’s overall indebtedness is expected to decrease to just over $80 million.

“That’s going to free up a lot of flexibility for the town,” Mr. Cantwell said.

Other positive financial factors the Finance Department report pointed to were the recent settlement of two of three union contracts, which the report called “fair to the employees and financially sound for the town;” the 2015 operating budget, which stayed below the state-mandated tax levy cap and contained a 3-percent spending increase, and a “flawless tax billing and collection season” so far this year after the appointment of a new tax receiver and the institution of new processes and controls.

Signs prohibiting parking along Dolphin Drive on Napeague, which were removed after a parking ban had been posted there for years, will go back up, according to a resolution passed by the East Hampton Town Board last week.

Discussion over whether the roadway, a short stretch on the south side of Montauk Highway that leads to the Atlantic shore and is bordered on the east by the town’s South Flora nature preserve, has pitted residents of the area against Zachary Cohen, a member of the town’s nature preserve committee, who believes that parking must be provided there to ensure public access to the preserve.

Residents, including Jonathan Wallace, an attorney who lives on the street and has filed suit against the town over removal of the no-parking signs, have said allowing parking will overrun their neighborhood with beachgoers and impede emergency access.

In a draft management plan issued recently to the town board for review, the nature preserve committee recommended creating several parking spaces along the eastern side of the Dolphin Drive right of way.

Elizabeth Vail, the town attorney, said after the town board vote last week that the move to replace the no-parking signs complies with the town’s legislative record regarding parking rules for the street. In light of the lawsuit, she told the board, it is “the only legal posture, for the duration, until you can consider [the nature preserve management] plan.”

Supervisor Larry Cantwell said this week that the board would consider parking for the preserve when it reviews the overall management plan.

In the meantime, Mr. Cohen is not the only one bristling at what is perceived as a move to keep outsiders out. Speaking at last week’s meeting, Loring Bolger said that she would like to take a Dolphin Drive-area resident up on his offer to those assembled to visit and see conditions for themselves, or to walk the trails in the preserve — “but there’s no place to park,” she said.

Norman Edwards, who lives in the area, demurred. Public parking is available on nearby Atlantic Drive, he said.

A group largely consisting of young Latino adults who are determined to both live on the South Fork and participate in the political process have organized a monthly meeting at which they can discuss the issues important to them and their peers.

The first such meeting of the group, dubbed the New Leaders of East Hampton, will be on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at D’Canela restaurant in Amagansett. The restaurant, which serves Latin and Mexican cuisine, is a popular gathering place for Latino residents of the South Fork, said George Salazar, a member of the group who is also a manager there.

The East Hampton Democrats, with which some members of the group are aligned, “want to get as many people involved with the community — especially immigrants, not necessarily people that were born here — and give them a chance at new opportunities,” Mr. Salazar said.

The South Fork’s Latino community is underrepresented in government, said Mr. Salazar, who was born in Columbia and came to the United States in 1998. “Someone in politics that will speak our language and understand our issues and where we are coming from” would be beneficial to that demographic, he said.

The Latino population on the South Fork is “huge, and I don’t think we’re well represented,” agreed Isabel Saavedra, a 2006 graduate of East Hampton High School who is now an immigration attorney. “I joined because I live here full time now, and would want that to change. Anyone can be on the committee,” she said, “but it’s mostly minorities. We want to get more involved in the community.”

Integration and a greater sense of inclusion would benefit all of the town’s residents, said Franaldo Hanna, who works at CW Arborists in East Hampton. “When I grew up there was more of a community feeling,” he said, “as opposed to it being all about money.” More year-round activities for youth, he said, would also serve the community by discouraging the negative consequences, such as drug use, of “too much downtime.”

Mr. Salazar, Ms. Saavedra, and Mr. Hanna all cited the scarcity of affordable housing on the South Fork, which has forced many young adults to leave their hometown, as the most urgent issue of the day. “Every day, housing is becoming harder and harder to find,” Mr. Salazar said, and is “especially difficult once you have a family.”

“Do we really have to move out of here because it’s not affordable?” Ms. Saavedra asked. “We want to change that concept by having people to represent the people that live here year round.”

All have been invited to attend the meetings, Ms. Saavedra said. “The more people that get involved, the better.”