all you have to do is look at how this commission dealt with former supervisor mark farrell. that was the biggest circus i've ever seen. this is how all the big candidates, all the incumbents with dealt with. they can pull money in the dark web -- off the dark web or from campaign finances, and you have absolutely no power to stop them. number one, the only thing that this commission can do is if you find somebody violated, you can ask the body that they belong to to punish them; which they don't. the only thing you've done one time on the sunshine ordinance is the commission sent a recommendation to mayerle that he remove former library commission president jewel gomez because of her public dealings -- dealings with the public, and the mayor just ignored it. i'll be honest with you. i think any recommendations you make to the board of supervisors, they will look at, if it doesn't appeal to them or meet their interests, they will send it back to you. i've been coming here for a dozen years now, and it seems like you're always rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and rewritin

welsh, sorry -- >> 155 was in last year's -- mayor mark farrell's budget. 80 of those were existing funded recruits in the academy that were -- that became full duty, but we also lost 93 officers through retirements, terminations in that fiscal year, so there's some replacement factor there. and the mayor funded 25 civilizations, so that means as soon as we get a civilian in, the officer doing that job goes out into the field. seven have been fild and we have the rest in the hopper, and the mayor funded a new hiring plan class of 50, and they are in academy. so it takes a while to have these officers out on the street. which speaks to the one-time overtime to get this, you know, visibility now. >> supervisor haney: some of those officers are still just now coming in? so the 35 for next year, but then some, obviously, with all of the timeline and processes, we are always or regularly increasing the numbers that are actually able to be deployed into the field? >> ideally, yes, yes, that's the reason we want to keep the academy classes going. >> supervisor haney: and do you know yet how many

mark. so we'll start right over here. yes, ma'am, in the second row. >> thank you for making time to be with us this morning. maureen farrell from the department of defense. wondering if you could project a little bit about the future of congressional oversight of intel defense as things seem to be merging in some arenas, such as the space domain. thank you. >> well, you know, i'll give you the good news/bad news in terms of oversight within our committee. the good news is that notwithstanding our differences over russia, which have been substantial, obviously, we have been able to do all of our other oversight in a completely nonpartisan way. and that's been true through the worst of things. so we have been able to pass our annual intel authorization bills that, you know, look at our overhead architecture, look at the defense intelligence issues. look at human intelligence and signals intelligence and allocate the budget among the agencies, make sure that we have protections for privacy. and we have been able to get all that done. and pass these bills out with enormous bipartisan support and get them passed in the house. f