. >> thank you so much supervisor weiner to bringing this forward and ben turner as well and i'm supportive of this approach and i wanted to thank mr. finish mr. finley and many others and others for giving insights and making this a better resolution as well and mimi kennedy as well. this helps us move forward in the most inclusive way so thank you for making those amendments. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you i'd like to add my name as a sponsor to this item and i want to thank supervisor weiner for bringing this before us i think it's certainly an important issue at the department of elections but also over all i think for the city and county of san francisco and i know a couple of months ago i made a request to the budget and legislative analysts regarding how we can move our alliance from licensed software to open source i think there's a number of different issues that that make this an important one one the budget being one but being able to create transparent software that's free and accessible and often better maintained because they are open source i kno