e while click on the names in the bubble graft and so more information about who gave for example local 2 is a union so you have individual names those are union if you look at something like that committee for a bright future you see a variety of corporate donors this is for political activities over time and drill down into the specific individuals is having given to them there's information in the analysis about what those political action committees are do go with the fund they representative interests information about contributions to committees so those are further detailed if you click on a bar gravel they've see the action committee how much so hopefully this will be a

sfraurd a straightforward to see exactly what the action committee is doing. >> and the last section our analysis about our central committee and we couldn't make a decision without this map this is a map we created and it is different pie charts represents the contribution amazes to the different county committees specifically democratic and republican central committee and san francisco green party reason why this is kind of fun to look at we can see based on the mapping the outside source of funding going going into the central committee

and see and - also sorry i didn't mean to interrupt right now you can't see but there's a map on different states from oregon colorado and texas so users could a zoom other and in that's essentially what had we have to show you and this is going to be solid if i had out. >> this is a productive if you have questions or comments about how this can be improved additions, deletions, or changes. >> very previous presentation any of the commissioners very

specific questions. >> i'd like to echo what the chair said this demonstrates on numerous amount of work on our part you've covered a gigantic survey of information and pulled it you'll together and wonderful comprehensive way that is very beneficiary for our staff and when we go is to the meat and potatoes of what they do on an everyday basis and to the public who want to see who's doing what and whether something is on the level and this is role a big contribution to city government and so i want compliment you have one general comment you've covered all this stuff is there anything that you take away from this is you would say was

something really dramatic that hit you that just you can - you'd want to highlight more than imagine. >> i couldn't help but notice how much expenditures on measure e to really work everything i didn't mention this in the analysis you'll see that when you look at live but there were $12 million spent on campaign consultant activity this year and in previous elections illegal leading up no more than two or $3 million so 3 times greater than that's an aberrations next year but we don't know and until that happens so i do so some interesting trend every year deepening what the hot bums are.

>> one thing i want to say about the analysis but the process really be able to see the information out there this information is already public but the public didn't have necessarily the tools of how we put this together this is how important it is and also one thing we've noted as we were working you think from work the consultant a data that is actually manually entered electronic tylenols is so important bus it allows with the electronic filing we wouldn't have been able to do this i wanted to note that, too. >> commissioner keane. >> when is this going to be online and use be able i did public. >> within two or three weeks i'll say you did visuals really make it easy for anyone to

understand and that is so powerful so your work is greatly appreciated and fantastic. >> thank you and i also wanted to thank the students for moving this forward. >> commissioner andrews. >> christen and jeffrey this is wonderful this helps me, i'm visible what was interesting when you got to the work cloud and their maybe more than that will or that will be shared or analyzed you can see clearly a benefit to spending money on a campaign i wanted to see if there's a more strict definition around the work cloud the may the record show o more education around a person's reaching

bigger group some campaigns if need a lot of money but got grammar education or the word or the concept uses more in i were to driving a campaign that was around a particular issue i'd time to know is it better to educate and direct my dollars around the creation point or go down another road of ads or creating an argument to it or what is the benefit. >> you're giving me a great idea for another analysis we have information about the vicinity expenditures so of that is here i didn't show it we could look at the amount on independent expenditures was it on a phone bank or advertise

advertisement it has not been done yet and very interesting. >> let me ask you a question once you get online and start getting new information as the season of election the election season is going how much time is that going to take to somebody keeping that updated it is great you've volunteered and your donoring your time how big a job to keep it up to date? >> that's a great question and i have a great answer essentially you can incredulous e embed this into the portal and use the data we'll embed on t a website that's the ethics

commission website and link that to the actual data that is coming in nightly i think for almost everything nightly it takes one day to be updated, however, the information which i kind of mentioned earlier the information entered manually that will it will be adorable. >> so some staff employee has to be doing that. >> yes. a staff member will you know have to mainly input it or, you know put in a mechanism for electronic filings whatever it is determined by the commission. >> any public comment.

>> a i'm larry bush from friends of ethic i have a question about drill down the information if you're trying to search for who a donor was an over of a company it's not easy to do we don't use standard language is there my interest on the part of the committee in standardizing the categories of employment that hass someone has to make that search easier, and secondly, do you show where the donor lives to see x amount of donors are living in the community or that couch and the third thing whether or not a donor is employed by a nonprofit or in the case of a ballot measure is a candidate thank

you. >> any other public comment? the question raised by mr. bush is what i have information is there as far as the donor in our database >> we do have information about the employer and job toilet of donors however those are on fields they're not boxes you check you're absolutely correct it's not standardized i look to try to see if there's a relationship between certain types of employment a tendency to give to certain candidates but it

difficult to put together a maintenance of at this point. >> and i'd like add i guess from some the locations maybe on there i guess you want to raise the question ever who you want to place people's independent addresses. >> my commissioner have any other questions thank you for your presentation and the worked and look forward to that going active thank you item number 4 on the calendar discussion and possible action on public finance report after each election cycle involves this the staff makes a report to the financial program another this meeting the staff will

present a report on the 2014 election who is going to make the presentation on blood of staff. >> this the deputy director and this summarizes the election data it took place in 2014 this is a subset of the data that you just heard about so in 2014 the size even numbered in the supervisorial addict were on the ballet and the incumbent was involved initially of the 17 candidates that ran 8 expressed an interest but two applied for public financing on refugee realized the other 6 did not meet the public threshold the two

candidates ran if district 10 and received a combined total of $175,000 from the time that the public financing program was implemented in 2002 several changes have been made to the program like the they recalled and the various deadlines and the amount 3 somebody can receive so because of those changes it is difficult to identify my patterns that could have resulted from public financing and the report contains detailed information about the amounts of money raised by the candidates spent by the candidates including the third party's but because i think bus stops were involved spending was relating

low as compared to captioning candidate races in prior years i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i thought the report was thorough. >> i'm curious it is so dramatic that the two candidates that applied for public funds did get some hefty amazes one hundred and 45 i 35 thousand and other large amount what were the factors in terms of the conditions that would have kept the others from depleting and applying i think as a candidate first place a caption and that kind of money we are be available to me i'd dive on it. >> in order for a candidate to be eligible the candidate has to

show that he or she a available candidate and raised a certain amount of money and the threshold if the 12r0ir8 program a candidate has to show a nonincumbent candidate this is a to show he or she as raised at least $10,000 in contributions from one hundred individuals that live in the city in amounts from 10 to $100 that's one of the criteria and that's i think the main criteria other criteria includes things like running foreign the office and be eligible to turn in our forms and met all the requirements so on and so forth. >> thank you. >> any public comment on the report? seeing none thank you very much

we'll move to item number 5 discussions and possible action regarding a promoted amendment to regulation which allows staff to implement an electronic filing system for candidates involved in the financing program >> commissioners jessie deputy director so this item is a concerning a small change to language with the big impact which is as commissioner vice president haney stated would allow for the prelims of essentially the electronic submission by candidates seeking public fivens of the required record so as was mentioned earlier, you have to submit prove 0 of receiving a certain

amount of finance and after qualification if you want matching fund again have proof you've served a certain amount of contribution from folks in san francisco so currently this is done can be done electronically but through e-mail or to go back to the late 90s a floppy disk this would allow is to use the new system created by the vendor north file so folks can enter into it directly and help the candidate statement they have to file afterward we have mr. macy who can answer the technical issues it is a small fix that will be helpful for everyone. >> why an amendment why is

there a present section that prexhudz excludes it. >> it - we're hoping to do - we need to be able to designate and tolling tell people they need to file if the rate doesn't changed they're not going to send it to us e-mail we thought it was wise to say we're going to have you do it in a manner and we can role it out slowly depending on who is applying and when but know right now people can submit it on floppy disk. >> the hope at the end of the day they'll be required to do it electronically and if there will that make it easier for the public to assess the information. >> that's correct. >> in what way. >> you guys want to -

>> all of the qualifying contribution forms and advisor physique of mifblg forms electronically will be distancing posted to our website right now their paper forms that start off for some of the information you'll have to come in and request it i'll say the greatest benefit really the efficiency in and how we process those forms and the efficiency for the campaign you essentially have to do the recordkeeping twice for all our contributions ones for the recording process and ones to disclosures the information on the state forms this allows the candidates to do it in would

step any commissioners have comments. >> public comment? do you want us to make a motion to implement have the staff implement the proposed amendment? that's correct i think it will just be approving the proposed language that's on - in the regulation >> okay. all right. anyone want to make a motion and i move. >> all in favor, say i. going to item number 6 discussions and possible action regarding potential additional amendments to the san francisco finance reform owners jessie you'll be responding to that.

>> yes, sir. >> commissioners at the last meeting the commission approved a package of proposed amendments to the finance reform owns and a number of commissioners asked the staff to going and basically perpetrate a document that facilitates a discussion at this meeting for potential ideas that my otherwise augment some of the provisions of c infraordinance so what we did was we had comments from interested parties including the friends i have ethic we liquidated some of the discussions the commission has had over the past few years and took some of the commissioners

comments and basically widowled down comments. our discussion some of those are bigger ideas than others we tried to provide a balanced overview so i'm going to sort of list them off now the first - >> sorry to interrupt i know it would be best to just do them one item at that time and have discussion with the commission and public and move to the next or do you want to do all 6. >> well, certainly at the commission discretion you should decide on what it presidents to focus on whether of those or one or two of interest to the

commission or all 6 and so i think certainly having an overview so the commission can have a sense of what's out there it maybe the commission decision that they're all good ideas but to want to focus on two or three it is certainly up to you. >> my - and commissioner keane yes madam chair mr. mr. chair, i think it best if we took them separately and discussed them each on if decided by us we want to go ahead on each of them because they're very discrete and in different ways we likely want to make a motion regarding it for example, like the first one is something on the ballot

and discuss that and do or not do whatever and move to the second one taking them all 6 together would be hard to make decisions between them what we want or not want to do. >> okay. any of the other commissioners have thoughts. >> i agree with our suggestion i think we'll take them one at a time and i'll propose we have the commission discuss and make a vote who they want to say that's something they want to have done and prioritize because maybe we can't do all 6 but after saying we want to do all 6 let's put priority. >> great, thank you okay. so the first proposed

idea would be applying the city contribution limits and bands to candidate control committees not associated with the candidate election and the two examples are here ballot commissions and ballot committees under the states that are controlled by the candidate under state law he or she if they have significant power on the decisions of committees we've had committees in san francisco and outside of the jurisdiction controlled by city officers and or candidates so this provision or idea would essentially apply limits that

otherwise apply to election campaigns there are no limits on the committee so for example if a committee controls and ballot control committee they could raise and spend money from corporate trshth but if this person were running for office he or she would be limited this will apply the city limits and bans to my ballot measure or the city officer or candidate will control i'm having to go into more details this is laid out i can certainly answer questions any questions of jessie on that

i don't have any questions when we get to the discussion i'd like to contribute to that. >> all right. when you say get to the discussion what you want to you want to discuss that proposal >> this is a proposal that has a grateful of merit to it and we should go forward on it i'll note that one of the things about this commission that makes it unique as a body that has power to effect things in the ethic situations in san francisco is our ability to put things on the ballot and i would suggest that we go forward with it in that respect with this one a because my prediction would be i could be

wrong i don't want to be led gown the garden path if we went in the way of putting it forward to the board of supervisors to the mayor there is a lot of political down side to those in the political arena and they'll be lobbying against it there is a good temptation i'm not speaking against it only the realty of politics that they be very likely to say let's not do this if we were to go ahead and go ahead and in terms of asking the board of supervisors to do it and having it go forward in a usual way for the mayor i think

we'd be somewhat - particularly we're looking at something to have it on the ballot for the november election we'd have to do it within a fairly short amount of time and the people in the political process can easily run the clock out and this gets lost like so many other things that get lost that start out are beneficial and just whatever else the bureaucratic process or memory fades and it go happen to bottom line i move we go ahead and do this in the form of a ballot measure that this commission puts forgot to be on the november ballot. >> i have a question of the city attorney do we