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Commissioner king . You have done a good job in allowing the general public to get into the weeds of things like a general election and in regards to funding an election and who is involved, and the whole aspect of following the money which is or tells so much about government, and the transparency and the lack of transparency of government and that is enormously valuable and i want to ask you a question which may be unfair and if it is, feel free not to answer it. Since you have gotten into the weeds and you have seen, how elections and balloting works and where the money is coming from and w...

Clear and whether or not things are misreported, they are all easily attributed to the same group. Lets see. I think that that is all that i have to talk about. Did you want to talk . Sure. Hi, im steven, again. Yeah, so i wanted to talk to you about a part of the project that i spent some time working on, thinking about. And which is, peter and both peter and inaudible already mentioned the sort of organizing and understanding of the data. And for a visualization computing project, the data format, and structures that are very important, and i, and there are a number of sort of technical issu...

Public inquiries about the City Campaign and lobbying and governmental ethics laws, during the year the numbers run into the 100s. Why dont we put together the formal or unwritten advice for getting that many calls . That may refer to the individual requests. And we had no requests for formal written advice, this, the year of this, report, and formal advice, somebody asked for a specific case that they were involved in. And we give them advice if they asked for it and in that case, the commission has to vote on whether or not to endorse, that advice, and it gives them, a measure of legal immun...

Good evening we are back in open session is there a motion to keep confidential about the session that we had the possible litigation of the plaintiffs. So moved. Second. Public comment. I didnt hear the motion. The motion to keep confidential the discussion that we had in closed session about the potential litigation of the plaintiff. To keep it confidential. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Hearing none, the motion passes. And the next item in the agenda, and discussion and possible action, regarding the minutes of the commission from july and august. Any comments or questions from the commissi...

Office parcels out who gets the money based on their priorities and not ours. Although they dont like it, they go to the board and try to get an ad back for additional funds that things that they think that they need. But the boards discretionary money is limited and each individual member of the board has neighborhood priority and so actually we did get the money in an ad back for the board this year but it was targeted and helping us implement the new lobbyist regulations. Whatever success that we had in regard to getting money for the positions that were unfilled, and the success always, ca...