1.  It was decided early that the organization should be strongly business-led with unified functional departments in support.

2.  As Pena noted Friday afternoon, each is more a conglomeration of programs than a unified department.

3.  Provincial premiers are struggling to create unified new departments from a mixture of duplicate, overstaffed and sometimes corrupt positions.

4.  Stangl said that each side had fought a determined battle on the merits, noting that he thought Giuliani truly believed that a unified department would be more efficient.