clyde electing a president well to discuss that i'm now joined by harper lee who served as the chief technology officer for president obama two thousand election campaign thank you very much for your time sir now i know that before joining the obama campaign you worked as the chief technology officer for a clothing company and you seem to have made a very smooth transition but some people would fill a beat and lazy about applying some of the tag it makes and marketing tools to politics because some of us still sort of feel deep down that politics should be conducted in the same way as commerce is that too idealistic yes that well i think it i mean i think ultimately when you're talking about a politician you're talking about something i mean it's been marketing forever yes i mean it's all about going in knocking on a door talking i mean in the. ages of go it was very community based but it was all about marketing you know what this politician is the best for this reason and so i think it's what we're seeing now is instead of us you know the digital technologists that hope like the pr

harper lee love the eleven percent had a rift mary it's hard to you know pick any particular source and say this number is writer that number is right even if we accept the four thousand number as a reasonable estimate. and we look at the eleven percent number in se coast report from the council for all ages that you know it's a never give numbers the number of civilian deaths for example if we look at the door for the past four years in pakistan were talking in the one to three percent range. if we're looking at the mn. the numbers are in much higher in the fourteen percent range. but the war kerry is not sanitary there really is no such thing as surgical strikes and anytime you're engaged in warfare there's going to be collateral damage and is highly unfortunate that the collateral damage often involves civilians women and children. but that's the nature of warfare and the nature of warfare. these days as we've seen post nine eleven is not the same height before prayer we faced in decades prior. they are not declared wars are not necessarily an official war is an indian on the law pro

choice of consumer goods be also applied electing a president well to discuss that i'm now joined by harper lee who served as the chief technology officer for president obama two thousand and twelve election campaign thank you very much for your time sir now i know that before joining the obama campaign your work as the chief technology officer for a clothing company and.

question of having individual polling places where the resources to do polling place are not allocated harper leer not having a big enough facilities to handle things but if you are an election administrator on the county level you are the one who is going to be the closest to seeing how many registrations you have in the months before the election and figure out how you are going to alec your resources. you have 100 machines in you sam going to put 10 in each polling place that's probably not as sound administrative decision because you will have different voters, different number of voters at each of those 10 places. i'm not sure that the state can manage that function. to do it right the granularity of details have to be folks on the ground in the location. >> i think back to the training i did when i was secretary and kentucky. if i were the secretary of state now and i have one of these tools that would want to train on these and expose the county clerks and election folks who all three of these. i remember one of my former county clerks came to our cincinnati -- and he was ecstatic to have

lee, aye. >> metcalf? >> aye. >> reiskin is abstaining. >> harper? >> harper aye. and chair kim? >> aye. >> that is four ayes and the october minutes are approved. >> can we please call item 8? >> moving into your regular calendar, presentation of the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2013. and the report to the board of directors. >> this is our tenth year of financial statements that have been audited and received a clean opinion, and you may have noticed in the staff report that now termed unmodified opinion it is determined an unqualified opinion and i would like to introduce our auditor, from the company to answer any questions. >> good morning. my name is amant krant and i am in charge of the audit, these are the annual financial statements and the scope is to be on the presentation of the statements and on the transbay from the tjpa and we have seen the financial statements from the agency and we confirmed these balances and we audit these balances to make sthur that the financial statements are stated in all material respect, our; is to appl

. >> this is informative to the public and also, vice chair harper who joined us in the spring as well as director lee who has been with us most of last year because she is an alternate to director lloyd. given the presentation will be various members of our staff beginning with our new senior program manager who i have not yet had the opportunity to formally present to the board, mark, joined us in the fall last year and he is a civil engineer with 20 years of experience in project management and delivery and comes to us from cal transand so please join me in welcoming mark, formally. mark will be joined by our cfo, and our legislative affairs manager scott in giving the presentation. and as well as dennis, our senior construction manager and so we will begin with mark. >> thank you, maria and happy new year and good morning supervisor kim and directors. >> in addition to that, it will include the accomplishment presentation followed up with a funding report and then a db, and sbe report and a plan for 2014 as we move forward. for 2013, marked the third year of successful operations it serves as the