and mr. fried, one thing that i would say is that obviously the suggestions you're getting here, it may be that commissioners after the meeting think of additional points that they should always feel free to contact you. >> absolutely. i'm always available for anything else. chairperson campos: ok. thank you. why don't we open it up to public comment. thank you, mr. fried, for your good work on this. please come forward. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners. eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and the local grass roots organization, our city. it's really, really exciting to see this preliminary report because it shows exactly what advocates of rank choice voting have always said, which is that voter participation is higher during rank choice elections and you can -- if you're part of any given political cadre that wants to downplay that and make look like that's not the case, you can do what happened over the last year and go to the media with cherry picked numbers and make it lo

i'll follow up with mr. fried about that, too. thank you. chairperson campos: and one suggestion is that depending on where the additional information that mr. fried collects gets us, it may be that, commissioners, that you decide we want to go and get an expert to come out and analyze the

but i will turn it over to mr. fried. >> thank you very much. jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is available for us to be able to determine how the impact of voters as far as over-0 vote, under-a vote, who shows up on election day, what are they choosing to participate in. there are two main sources of data, the department of elections has a lot of data on their website. a lot of their data in recent years is much more informative than what they provided an older years, so it is harder to compare rank choice voting out compared with the old december runoff's we used to have because the data available back then is not quite as in debt as the data is today. what i am doing is trying to figure out t

but i will turn it over to mr. fried. >> thank you very much. jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is

commissioner campos: i will turn over to lafco staff, mr. fried. >> the budget is presented before you in the packet. we believe we have enough in the reserve account at this point, if need be, to return funds to the city and county of san francisco that we should reserve our right, we have the ability -- once the city and county has given money to us, the city and county does not have the ability to lower the amount. they can raise the amount a time they want, but they can't flourish without lafco's approval. with the city and county having financial issues, time has been spent on a different pot of money. in future years, we need the funding source for and will have the funding source back. so the staff recommends doing that once again. commissioner campos: think you very much. any comments or questions on the budget? commissioner schmeltzer: i want to say that the process has worked well, there hasn't manhattan real -- the money wasn't there prior to it being adopted and this method has worked well in order to work hand-in-hand with the city of

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