and aaron that var navarez and the project team tim mcnamarn and kenneth bennett. >> thank you. do you have any questions? not at this time. thank you, gentlemen. we appreciate your press conferences and the information. thank you very much. the next speaker is going to be linda from the department of technology. >> thank you very much for having me here. and i am linda gerrell and serve the city and s.i.o. and director of department of technology. i just would like to chat about some of the technical considerations around an open source voting system and answer any of your questions. >> thank you. one of the first questions i have been asked over time is what are the city's project roles. i think it's important to understand how the city would be supporting this project move forward and so coit has funded the project and from 2017-2019. and we would definitely be using elections subject matter experts from the department of elections. they are the ones that understand the rouls, procedures -- the rules, procedures, and process around elections. from the technology and project m