and fifth, national leadership nfr. and the election security and in turn, we benefit because the how the leaders are affected in the united states affects us as a whole including the presidency. so in march the elections commission unanimously voted to support three different things. first, to request at least $4 million for the 2018-19 fiscal year. second, to ask the mayor and budget chair to support assembly member chiu and senator weaner's budget request of $8 million from state matching funds. third, to support is technical advisory committee's recommendations of next steps and what should be allocate d first and this recommendation said two things. number one t city should hire full-time staff project and report to the director of elections. second, the vote should be started first and these parts are simpler, fewer, cheaper, and would cover more than 60% of the voters. this is an example of what is known as an agile approach. it is better to view the project not just as one big mojt. and they can be started one a