6 - problems with which we are faced. We have some 9,000 people a month being added to the population of the nine counties that comprise the Bay Area--a city the size of Livermore being added every month. The bulk of this population growth has taken place and will continue to take place outside of the metropolitan limits of San Francisco and Oakland, and the really great impact will be felt in the communities that surround these two major cities. Gulling the advance of an area is a problem in management, not so different in principle than the problem that each of us faces in directing our own businesses. Sound management demands: First, clearly defined objectives and programs. Second, a sound organizational structure that provides the mechanism to analyse, to plan, to decide, and to executive programs necessary to accomplish the desired objectives. Third, money or credit sufficient to finance the cost of carrying out the program. Finally, managerial talent--the right men in the right places. The problem that I would like to pose to you today is whether we have solved our area management problems? I, for one, very much doubt it. I offer for your judgment this appraisal of where we stand today. First, we have almost no thoroughly defined objectives or programs that nave been designed to promote the Bay Area as a whole. We are relying entirely on the hope that, if each community solves its own problems, the sum of the solutions will add up to the right answer for the Bay Area. If this turned out to be true, it would be the greatest accident in history. Let's face it: no effective approach has been made to analyse our problems and to develop the best over-all solution.