so i think the -- els bernd are trying to do. from my perspective, it is also important for us to look at the public finance piece. it was something that was alluded to earlier during public comment. we have a companion piece that could also go to voters that tries to address some of the concerns that have been raised about what happened in the last mayor's race. about what happened in the last mayor's race.

so i think the -- els bernd are trying to do. from my perspective, it is also important for us to look at the public finance piece. it was something that was alluded to earlier during public comment. we have a companion piece that could also go to voters that tries to address some of the concerns that have been raised about what happened in the last mayor's race. one of those concerns being the number of candidates who were in the race, and there has been talk about the so called zombie candidate. and one of the proposals that's imbedded in what we have put forward and something that we have worked with supervisor kim and supervisor avalos on is the idea of moving up the deadlines by which candidates have to decide whether or not to file as candidates and to remain in the race. that allows candidates more time to know what the field of candidates actually looks like. so that they can have more information and decide early on whether or not they will remain candidates in a campaign. and i think that that's something that could go