. >> chris bowen, members of the elections task force 1995. you guys is by an hour and 10 minutes. a long this meeting we had was 5.5 hours. so congratulations. you have more stamina than i do. a couple of just general comments on timing. because the public financing for supervisors, the filing deadline for candidates will be earlier in the future. additionally, you worked backwards or forwards or whatever way you are going. and you go back to signatures of lieu. in many cases, you'll be probably needing, and i agree with member pilpel, you might have to get the report up by march 1 or 15th to provide adequate information because people do not know what district a live-in when they are running. the signatures will not be any good. so the problem is that we have a sense this. the census is not necessarily determine when they will release the information. this year there were early, last year there were early. it was like early march. it could have been as late as april 1. so we were lucky in that regard. so there was a lot of, the planning department and also the department of elect

i am chris bowen. i have kind of lost my voice. it has been a pleasure to come to the hearings except for two in los angeles. i did and all nine your -- nighter. i wanted to do an analysis of the plan, what you have accomplished, and where you need to go. i would like to say you are about 40% there. [laughter] there are 24 neighborhoods. i am really tired. 24 neighborhoods, communities of interest on institutions -- communities of interest, institutions divided in the redistricting. you have new united -- united nine of them and put five very close together. you can make five additional moves very easily that will not create ripple effects and unite by more neighborhoods. showplace square starting at 16th street, move into district 6. i know commissioner pilpel will appreciate it because it is a straight line for 16 blocks. but the 803 people in the southern part of the financial district into 3. [tone!] that will allow you with the surplus population to reunite the tenderloin. also, the campus of usf. there is one block at the top