responsibility of the public information officer could be fulfilled by the director of enforcement in lela farlela -- legal affairs. i have a smaller shoulder than thomas, but i'm willing to offer it, so we have talked about, going forward, some work that i might do to free him up to conduct investigations. long-term, if the volume of requests persists as it has over the course of the last six months, i think the commission will seriously have to consider requesting some additional staff resources because although we take very seriously our transparency obligations we also take seriously our enforcement obligations, and we want to see all of those are fulfilled to the fullness of the mandate. >> commissioner chiu: agreed. one idea, would obviously leave this up to you to determine, but if there are any salary savings from the open positions, if that would be something worth exploring. i just understand that there's -- and applaud your effort to meet both the request of the public for transparency but also don't want to meet those obligations at the expense of making progress against the caseload t