i'm john gollinger. i actually cut my teeth on these issues as a community organizer. i spent four years being an attorney for good government and environmental issues. i learned the role of politics, and i was involved in a 1996 statewide ballot measure on these very issues. i will just add, my only other credential, i've been in this city a couple of decades working in and around these issues in many capacities, but i decided to go back to school and earn my law degree about a decade ago at golden gate, and was fortunate enough to have peter keen as my law professor, and now, as i said, i teach election law there. i want to drill down on the specifics of the measure. first, i also just want to mention by way of process. i am delighted that i think this measure will be a very good indication of how the process can work in multiple ways to get things done. as was mentioned, there was a log jam in the city hall version of how to get things done, so we're going to the ballot. but i will mention as peter said, tom ammiano, he, and i sat down last summer. we started it as

keen and john gollinger and mr. ammiano on this, and i'm glad that eight members of the board are supporting this, a broad spectrum of the board, as we are on this issue, a broad spectrum of america. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. next speaker. >> hello. my name is agatha vassilar, and i'm speaking to you as a regular constituent whose family has been here 30 years. before the 2018 election, i travelled around the country doing a project called inside out book project, and you know the san francisco mural that's on display in the sf moma, it's the same project that's on the voter registration. i talked to hundreds, if not thousands of people, and the major reason i heard that people don't vote is in a system where a corporate machine drowns out our vote, it's very easy to believe that our conversations with elected officials don't matter. this is it. big money out of politics is that root cause issue, and it's my greatest wish to revitalize the culture of democracy in san francisco and the country, and i think t