. >> members of the board of rviso, ray hart, director of san francisco open government. and can i get this to work? >> supervisor cohen: gov tv, overhead, please. >> and could i get my time back while we're waiting for -- can i get the 30 seconds i've lost waiting for that? politics author frank hubbard says that politics is the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. you have seenethi similar to this, the friends and family grant. and they will come in and say, we want to get $820,000. this is what they do. they put other people's money, the designated donors, as an inclusion as if it's from the friends. what the friends in this particular year gave was $410,000. this from the website charity navigator, the numbers were provided by the friends to this website and they tout its wonderful thing. if you look at what they spent during the same year, $4 million. sohen you were a citizen of san francisco and you go to the library's website and there's a link directly from the city department website tohe friends, you think y mourey is

. >> again, ray hart, director san francisco open government and i'm talking about the budget of the library. i have 36 orders of determination finding violations of the sunshine ordinance, which are violations of either the brown act or california public records act. a dozen of those are the library either trying to keep me from getting public records to substantiate the phrases. the previous speakers -- i presented statistics and documents and they say, it's a wonderful relationship. i will tell you what's happened in the library. i've been going for 10 years now and the friends never show up at that meeting anymore. they used to show up and show of those false numbers saying, we're giving $700,000, $800,000, hiding that the money was coming from other people and they're taking credit for it. they never show numbers and they have access to all the numbers. one of the things that is hard to to try to get the library to take any responsibility for the financial arrangement. they're supposed to look out for the benefit of the library and yet they know absolutely nothing about where th