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

again, mr. fried, thank you very much for your good work and we look forward to the additional information. madam clerk, please call the next item. madam clerk: item no. 5, consideration and final approval of sf lafco budget for fiscal year 2012/2013. chairperson campos: mr. fried? >> we presented the budget at last month's meeting for a first vote. this is the second vote. no changes have been made to what we're recommending. the staff is recommending that while we have the legal ability to accept all the money that the city offers to us under state statute that we are actually recommending to return that money for this year but simply maintain our rights to the allocated amount in future years should we need it. chairperson campos: great. thank you very much. is there any public comment on item 5. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, if we can get a motion, motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner olague, if we can take that without objection. without objection and the i

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

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 andan

but i will turn it over to mr. fried. >> thank you very much. jason fried, lafco staff. i am

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

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

what market research has shown or things, perhaps we can do that because i don't want to the put mr. fried in a position of trying to give you an

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fries and shakes. >>> the topic, development in africa. mr. blaire pointed to democracy but he also mentioned starvation and a lack of medical care. demonstrators outside the auditorium called for blaire's arrest. they say he's a war criminal for supporting the u.s. invasion of iraq. >>> a battleship is about to ship out after being cleaned up at the port of richmond. the uss iowa is set to pass under the golden gate bridge this weekend and will likely never return. >>> once it was one of the biggest, baddest world war battleships in the u.s. navy, today the uss iowa was getting ready for what may well be her final voyage. this sunday the iowa with her massive guns is scheduled to head out for the port of los angeles to become a floating museum. and when it leaves there will be no more battleships left in the bay area. >> it would have been nice to have the ship in the bay area because of the importance the bay area played in world war ii. >> reporter: the battle to keep the iowa has a northern california attraction was long hard and ultimatel

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fried chain of command. we will see what he has to say. >> this gives us that flexibility. any other discussion en? >> the adoption of third by a mr. smith. favorable? those oppose the no's have it. the amendment is not agreed to. the ranking member asked for their will call book. we will do that the end. any other amendment? >> i have one at the desk. actually the next two i will withdraw in the interest of time. >> will the clerk we will consider them then the ranking member would withdraw all. >> these are perennials, and three years. of the underlying portion of the bill restricts the president's ability to transfer inmates out of guantanamo and any effort to build facilities to accommodate those prisoners in the united states. i know of that i do not have the votes to change it but just raise the objections and i think it is the wrong policy to limit the president's flexibility. at some quaint we have to deal with it. 171 is a member. even now all of them will be there forever limiting the alternative that is not a sustainable practice and we will have to make a decision i hope the committee will consider that going forward. t