. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, mr. chiu. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, brian. unless you want to respond to that, we'll move on frto d.p.h. all right. from department of public health, we have brian and ashley. >> good morning, almost afternoon. thank you, chair mar and other supervisors in particular. i just want to set the context, and then i'm going to let ashley who's set a lot of the leadership do the speaking for us. we have had a very long process and part of that is we've been working on how we should look at data and data collection for this community since 2008, so when we reopened the issue, it became a very long process involving all parts of the department in essentially a year-long meeting process to look at priorities. a very early priority was if we were going to do this was we were going to add names and pronouns in our fields? we're doing that by getting rid of many of our computer systems and getting on a comprehensive medical record in august of this year, so there was some tension in how

chiu: thank you. any other public comment? mr. gollinger, i wanted to call you back. >> supervisor mar's office is on his way. >> chair chiu: okay. commissioners, did you have any questions? >> commissioner ambrose: yes. i don't believe you raised the point about moving it up to the 240th -- >> oh, yes, that was one of the reasons that i wanted to touch on. i think for reasons laid out in the staff proposal i think it's good to make available the matching grant. i would make available the matching funds. in my experience, the more -- you know, it's both to make grassroots campaigns more viable and effective, the ability to hire a person or people to go knock on doors or to organize town hall meetings. to be able to do that with enough of a window that you're not in the heat of the campaign when you're just bringing someone on board makes a huge difference, and i think that's what the candidates who are really going to care about the time difference between getting the 60,000 or what-have-you in the summer and at the beginning of th

>> chair chiu: any further questions for mr. wright? >> okay. thank you very much for your >> discussion of proposed regulation in the staff attachment. >> thank you, chair chiu. item five is an item that pat ford, again, was -- worked on in preparation for this meeting. i just wanted to highlight for you what the item is. our hope is that you may have a chance to look at them today, receive public comment. these are draft proposed regulations that cannot be acted on today. our regulations, you may recall, require a ten-day notice, so the plan was to have the list of areas identified for you where we are proposing some regulatory cleanup and some changes to elicit any kind of specific comments, questions, from you, from members of the public, and then to revise as necessary, notice those changes, and then have them available for you at your may meeting for your action if you want to take action at that time. the package that's with agenda item five basically separates these three -- these proposed changes into three categories. first, they are im

so the issue that we might run up against -- >> chair chiu: mr. cox, could you speak closer to the microphone? >> yes, sure. thank you. first time at the microphone. so on page 15 of the form, we note that this is kind of a comprehensive view of what the campaign -- campaigns cost over the election cycle. and as you can see, if you look at the cost over one election cycle, the total cost is $9.75 million. so just doing some back-of-the-envelope math, this projection indicates we're going to be a little bit short, okay? and that's using the higher value of $270,000 for the board of supervisors and $1.5 million for the mayor -- mayoral race, so that would be alternative, too, under the proposal. so there were just some concerns that we might -- the fund might -- might -- might over time be depleted. there is a remedy, of course. so we could ask the board of supervisors for additional funding if that were to happen. that's not guaranteed, but there are provisions in the code that allow us to do exactly that. we do recommend -- so on the next page, pa