does require when there is a vacancy in the mayor call an and election call that an additional $8 perresident be accounted for in our election campaign fund. and so we communicated and confirmed with the controller's office that that level of funding does exist in the current funds balance, so for example if all mayoral candidates, the six who have qualified to be on the ballot and have indicated that they want to be public financing participants, if each one of them wanted to receive the full financing of $975,000 for their campaigns, the fund would be able to withstand that draw, but come november 's election, there may need to be additional put in based on the language that's in the charter, but based on our ad stiff cost, based on the election call, there is not a provision that does that for us particularly. >> i would imagine that doe gets special consideration because they may have to setup poling stations and pay workers. and also, how many candidates have filed for public financing so far? do you know? >> well, there are -- in terms of what we mean by filing, there were eight candida