>> okay if we could have people stop their private conversations in the audience please. >> good afternoon i've been driving taxis 10 years in the city. so many of my friends said earlier i don't have to repeat anything but one thing in my observation here in the city the last 2 or 3 years the city the people running the city block by block now they are

so when the politician used to run this city when us we pay every penny to the city in tax and you know our apartments expense active. i can't even have coffee in my car. the government is telling me so for me i'm on my way to hawaii in

january january i'm not going to be -- i can't raise my son in this city. for you guys maybe yes. it can be a very good city. for us it's over if this continues. applause. so i'm on my way to paradise thank you very much. >> thank you, sir next speaker please? >> hi my name is brad -- i'm a driver and dispatcher i've seen for a long time i understand their appears to be a demand for more taxis i think the market maybe instead ly growing we've got new businesses coming in i understand that but what i ask you to do to stop us all from bleeding to death. maybe one or 2 hundred medallions at

a time 500 could be a blow to our gut. if we're all going to be making less than minimum wage what kind of people are you going to have driving the taxis i don't think it's going to serve the city. that's a win-win the city will win the drivers will be a much slower bleed the market will hopefully continue to grow so that's what i want to put forward the other thing is drivers if you don't like uber please don't drive for uber so just think about that thank you very much. applause. >> good afternoon. liz brad ly you called me twice. not much

has changed except you charged a thousand dollars for my cab license. now we got the pink mustache that's un insured and you guys sit there like fat cats and say i think i'll take a limo tonight i have no problem with limos but these guys come right to my taxi stand right to my nightclub to my restaurant and pull up in front of me and say you need a ride? that's all they can say because they are not smart enough to say anything else so and you guys are just so ignorant you are ignoring what they are doing to our livelihood you know we could

have handled the cabs. i bet every one of you guys have been in a limo i'll bet. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is ali i had drivers they drive for me i have no drivers. i guess i have to do it. so i got i went a few days ago have to pay 4 dollars now fifty cents i can't have water i can't have coffee the question is i just had baby 2

weeks old baby the name is lal achlta i just want to repeat something about the limos they just stopping you know friday saturday every night and they work like a cabs if you have 17 hundred cabs now we have five thousand cabs because they work like a cabs and if you guys like

don't have medical we don't have dental vacation? what vacation how we going to have vacation you guys can have vacation not us thank you very much. applause. >> good afternoon my name is trevor johnson i'm a taxi driver for about five years and a dispatcher as well i really think you guys need to you speak up. if they hear from

you guys this illegal business needs to stop and force them to operate within guidelines of the law i think that will make a huge thing to make us all a lot happier and keep the medallions from being devalued. we really need more enforcement on the streets taxi cops i think it will be a huge value for the city. it will stop a lot of the solicitation by these illegal operators i think a unified -- app or a

statewide app would be even better. they are too busy looking at their smart phones to find an available cab when all they need to do is open their eyes we need to provide them a way to hail a cab. and also adding new medallions will serve the -- >> thank you. okay go ahead. afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is amed -- i've been driving cabs since 1995 that is almost 18 years and then i put my name the first day i was driving as a cab driver on the waiting list to get my medallion then i went to check my standing and

they said it's 2 thousand but you are qualified if you want to buy it so i mortgaged my house for 250 thousand dollars and bought a medallion and none of these uber were around and now that i bought it all this is happening now do you think it's fair that i pay 250 thousand dollars and after 17 years being qualified on the waiting list to get a medallion and you may say that this is an app you are qualified you are legal whatever it is. if that's the case why is this necessary for that pink mustache around their vehicle.

so every time i see that pink mustache it's like a knife going through my heart it's really very depressing to see that why don't you guys at least tell these guys and at least they can do that and another thing i want to say is that uber every hotel in san francisco and you see they are occupied by limo sines from the hotel go to the airport that was the best thing do you think that is existing now? every where we go you see all these limosines -- >> thank you, sir. >> is there anyone else who wishes to address the board,

would would you please step up? and if there's anyone left downstairs if you could please make your way up to room 400 thank you. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is mark goldstein i've been driving a cab for 25 years as have many of my colleagues it costs 13 hundred dollars a month to insure a cab that's liability and worker's comp and 150 for the comprehensive insurance all cabs need to be replaced every 3 years that's another expense we're heavily regulated operating costs are instantly increasing our income is being diluted by uber cabs which are completely un

regulated. cab drivers have no pensions or safety net. we the cab drivers do the job that is in the top 10 percent dangerous jobs in the nation. besides regulating us, sfmta should be protecting this vital industry. it will create more financial hardship at an already critical time. the cab drivers are the first people visitors meet and the last ones they see when they leave. you can help us by protecting us and then we can talk about adding more cabs. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> anyone else care to address

the board? >> i've been driving a cab the last 18 years. i am supposed to buy a medallion but i have a problem with my credit because i wasn't qualified to buy the medallion. now, what i'm asking the board is first and foremost you should consider us. at least you should give us a break on the price. secondly, you are -- for yellow and other companies you should lead it directly to us or at

least some part of the medallion should come to the drivers thank you very much. >> thank you sir. applause. >> care to address the board this afternoon? afternoon. >> afternoon. you paid the canadian firm to say what you wanted to hear and now they are saying it. meanwhile under your miss management and even though i was working more 37 days more i made 7 thousand dollars less last year than 2011 you don't behave like a government agency but a profit making company. i'm reminded that hall burton is a town in canada. the ruined jobs in

toronto more cabs only makes it easier to get a cab where it is already easy to get a cab. you are on the very cusp of a new era of opportunity corruption. you have found a way to exclude the people and the cops. you operate in an authority vacuum with an enforcement vacuum and a dispatch service vacuum. the cops should just be issuing tickets for non-compliance. without a