for years, san francisco has been controlled and bought. it's about time for you, ethics commission, to stop corruption and fraud. you were elected to stop public elected official corruption. and for the last many years, california has been controlled solely by many of the party, democrats. san francisco is about balanced governments and decent parties. i urge you to do something so our government can be reformed and run a government by the people, but not by the few elite and who bought super pac and paid for the electoral office to be in office. >> chair chiu: thank you. >> and to be the correction, because you obviously do it on purpose, i've never said things the way that it was coded in minutes. i'm going to give it to them for correction. >> chair chiu: thank you. any other public comment? okay. we'll move now to the consent calendar items, which are the draft minutes for the ethics commission. [inaudible] >> chair chiu: oh, okay. >> so i'm here to speak -- i don't see it on the agenda, but i know there's a proposal to eviscerate the matching funds that candidates must follow.

there is nothing pending, and for the record, i do not believe the ethics commission of the city and county of san francisco is out of control. thank you, madam chair woman. >> chair chiu: thank you. other public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. john avalos. i'm here to speak on the consent calendar, item number four, in the matters that the proposed stipulate -- >> we'll wait to get to number four. item number two on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. still. >> vice chair kopp: when item four is called, then you'll be invited to speak. >> thank you. >> chair chiu: any other public comment for agenda item number two? >> good afternoon. so my understanding is that this has to do with anything that's on the agenda or not, right? >> chair chiu: yes. >> so i'd like to -- because the amount of time we have is so short, i'd like to give my -- some of think thoughts on the public financing -- my thoughts on the public financing proposals starting now, and then more later. would that be okay? >> vice chair kopp: that's item five. >> we'll take -- >> these are items that are on the agenda. t

wanted to reemphasize the public and the reporters in san francisco have come to rely on these as a source of information, and the ethics commission has accordingly started updating these -- and that we update these on a daily basis, and it has become a daily part of operations inside the commission because we want to keep values current and make sure that accurate numbers are always available. we're working on building out the technical infrastructure that makes things like this possible, and so i look forward to bringing more projects like this to your attention in the future. >> chair chiu: mr. field, thank you very much for this. i found that to be a very powerful presentation. i think that the automatetion and the clear and easy interaction of this, it's really stunning to see it laid out there in black and white or full color how many money is being spent in our election. it's shocking that $11 million is coming into our city elections from north carolina. i never would have known that absent your dashboard. and so this goes to a budget question. i think executive director pelham will address later, but do you have the resou