mr. rafferty. uh, and some of them would be easier and more cost effective than fighting a lawsuit or even drawing seven seat districts for all of yourselves, where you have to go through four public hearings and these sorts of things. so i really think you do have options, as we've been saying for a while, you don't have to simply take, uh, the, you know, accept that you have to go to seven member districts, um, a seven seat, uh, seven districts for yourselves. you could actually thank you, mr. hill. that that is your time. i'm sorry to have to interrupt you. thank you. steve. thank you, mr. chisholm and president of californians for electoral reform. and i'm speaking on item three. the c.r.a. letter. i understand that mr. rafferty is open to negotiating settlement. that includes proportional ranked choice voting. he refers to it as the single transferable vote, or stv, but it is the same thing. i strongly urge you to negotiate with him and include the prc or stv in your settlement, and will save

mr. rafferty can live with. with mr. rafferty being open to a compromise and given the other two bad options, it seems like it might be worth having a discussion with him about it. thank you very much. thank you. john hi. my name is john palmer. i am a 30 year san francisco resident and voter, and i understand that you guys. have sort of had a gun put to your head in terms of making big changes to how you elect people to the board. and i just think this is a real opportunity to make lemonade from lemons, because the proportional ranked choice voting approach using district, of three free elected people each would be a fantastic way to ensure you have great representation on your board. so it's long been a preferred voting method of mine. and i hope you guys can take advantage of the opportunity. that's been presented to you in an unfortunate way. but i think it's really an opportunity to improve representation. and even if you stick with the seven and do four and three, you could still do proportional representation and g