fried >> jason fried, lafco member. we looked at how vacancies are filled for all elected offices, san francisco being the only charter city/county in the state of california we kind of are an island of ourselves as far as being able to compare to anyone else because there's no one else like us. nationally there are other city/county mixed together, we took all the chartered city counties and how they appoint their elected officials, how vacancies get filled, for california-wide offices as well as california and nationally most populous. in total we looked at every elected office, in total there were 192 offices in 31 different jurisdictions that were looked at. last thursday when i was asked by the chair of our commission, supervisor avalos, to take simply a look at mayor and board of supervisors, once again we consider board of supervisors and city council in this study to be one and the same because no other county in san francisco has a mayor, so you need to find places where there's a mayor and a city council worki

. >> jason fried lafco staff again. as i mentioned to you i presented the first draft budget at last meeting. this is the second required hearing. there is however a difference from last month to this month in the budget. if you look at your packets you will see there say re-- is a reduction in the budget. that was as the city and county of san francisco was going through their process and changes to staffing and how lafco can interact with staff i noticed an interesting difference between what we say our budget was and what they were saying and i did research and worked with the clerk and by state mandate the minimum amount that we can request be ag indicated to us and it's 300,000 so you will see the budget reflect the lower amount. once again we do have enough in reserve to pay for one year of our budget but after year we will be below that budget and next fiscal year we will be below that amount. we're at 300,000 now in the reserve act so we can go one more year if we want to return the money and i will suggest that