i would propose an amendment if that is all right, madam chair woman. >> yes. >> and what i would say is that we postpone or take the portion of the contract dedicated to the expenditure for the on board devices. and postpone that portion until after february first, making clear that after february first, it will require board approval for the agency to make that expenditure portion of the contract, the rest of the contracts would go forward. and in the meantime, let me be personally clear, i have heard from the taxi cab companies that we did not have the real

chance to give this information to the agency. and mr. son made the point in public comment. okay, now is your chance, you are going to get a written spec, and so let us know if you don't. and then, use this opportunity to see if we can work this out so that the information can come from you, practice rather than putting another on board device in the cabs at the expense of the mta and raising all of the issues that we have talked about today. with that amendment, which i guess that i should just say, that is my proposed amendment. and did i state it clearly enough? >> could you, could someone rephrase the amendment, please? >> so the amendment will be to require additional action by the sfmta board of directors, prior to the expenditure for the on board devices after february one, 2014. >> okay. >> and i would like to get a motion and a second and then i would like to open it up for

public comment on the amendment only. >> could i have a motion? >> move to approve. >> second. >> and i would like to open it up for public comment on the amendment and if you like to comment on it please line up and you will have two minutes. >> directors, thanks for making that amendment and i do want to point out clearly that you are giving a contract to a company despite what they said have never facilitated it and never put a dispatch system in the fleet and it is very suspect from this industry, and as a matter of fact, i feel very strongly, that this vendor wants to put in equipment so that they are, and we are beholding to them in terms of services and equipment that they control in the future. i just want to make that clear and put it on the record. i suspect this company wants to use a cloud based meter system and make sure that they can

charge for air time and other services using the equipment that they would deploy. if we are able to use the existing equipment, i want to address the fact, please, if you owned a small business, do you think that it is appropriate for a government agency to say, we are going to take your data, and we are going to give it to any third party, for-profit company with or without your agreement, to start putting your business in making profits for this company, and i cannot tell you how disruptive this will be. and it is another thing to give it to a company without the choice and consent to put the cabs on the network, that is in this plan and it is not being addressed. and is it unreasonable, for me, as a small business owner, to say, please, let me have some say in, that data that i give you, about giving it to someone else before they put all of my

cabs on their network. that is still in this plan. please, i ask you, respect my business. respect the efforts that i am doing to provide service and look at that very carefully. finally. the private industry has already done this. flywheel has two-thirds of the cabs on the network and soon, probably every cab, and we are going to go to the ford with this? >> thank you. >> next speaker here we are and i can tell you about the transportation and i know them really well and if you have been to las vegas, you know that there is no dispatch cabs, as much in the suburbs as there is in san francisco. and it is the airport to the hotel. 900,000 people are transported from the airport to the hotels, okay, and so when you can't call a cab and you can't flag a cab in las vegas, you have to be at a hotel. and that is how it works down there, and you can't go on the

streets to flag a cab. >> specifically addressed to the amendment. >> just the amendment, cnt has already given the information to donovan and you can ask him that he has everything that he is looking for our computer dispatch and it is already there and you know what? it is free. >> thank you. >> our next speaker. >> all right. andrew, and i will speak directly to the amendment and i appreciate the opportunity to address you, i think that it is important as i said to provide the written specifications and i think that it would be unreasonable to say that the written specifications if they are written in such a way that we can't respond, there ought to be an opportunity at least to take a look at it, and let me give you an example. right now the staff requires a 15 second, real time data and i think that most of the cab companieds are 20 and i think that it is likely that we can get to 15 seconds but i would hate to see the specifications say that i want all of the

items in red ink and knowing that the data comes in blue ink and so i would like to get the written specification and like to have the opportunity to come back and say that these are all of the things that we can do and there is a little bit of at least a discussion about how we can make that data meet the requirements that are written. because sometimes, i think in error, some people will write up some things knowing that they cannot be met and i hope that is not the case here but we are a little bit concerned. we have the data and we are more than willing to provide it to you, the written specifications will organize that data and make sure that you will get it but i hope that the written specifications that come out of fti are not written in a way that does not allow us to respond appropriately. thank you, next speaker. >> with regard to the special attention to the hardware or the software, i think that kim is correct, to ring a bell of warning about the efforts to retool the whole situation so

that through the cloud computing or whatever sorts of devices with webb 2.0 or other ways of administering the fees. and more comes under the rubric. and it is in our gate. and so, if there is a sneaky way of creating more fees, that is not going to work, very well. and certainly will not be popular. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> the heart is that they do not want a universal app system. they want to have their own appand they want to contract with the companies that they desire to contract with to provide these app services.

and their objections are basically the same that they had to centralizing or integrating the dispatch and it is, it is proprietary and understandable that these are understandable and private business and they like to control everything that they possibly can. and first of all we are in a regulated situation, second of all, we are in a competitive crisis, right now. and we have to have the tools and we have to take the steps that are necessary to combat that. i am still greatly concerned about all of this information sitting in the mta's computers, and without any guidelines or standards, for their use, i would, you know, if this goes through, i would love to see some of that put in the form of regulation. and so that we know what the information is going to be used for, how and where and when and

why. >> however, that does not mean that the eta system should not go forward in and off itself, it is simply a matter of having a method of locating a particular cab so that is on the cloud based system there can be contact between a rider and a driver. and i think that it makes sense to do that on the city wide basis if we don't, we are digging a deeper hole for ourselves, >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> i know that you have given this a lot of thought and i appreciate that you are trying to make an amendment here to make it, you know, more palatable for everyone. my concern is, that i am thankful for the thought process of the first step that has been taken and my concerns

will remain for a while on some of the things that have already been mentioned about the data collection and how it is going to be used and so forth and i guess that my concerns are, yes, we are regulated and it is never going to change and, we are regulated more than any city that i am aware of in the country and i don't expect that to change. i just don't want it to get to the point where it is so over reaching that somebody has forgotten about, that they are the regulators and we are running in the private business and we need to follow the regulations and we don't need to tell someone how to run the business, and i think that is where our concerns come and it is not a matter if we don't want to cooperate but we are running a private business and we are do follow the regulations as soon as the people tell us that here is how you have to do it, we get concerned. thank you for your amendment, and director, and you have proposed. and i think that i am sure that we are going to continue to watch things closely. so that we don't or something

else does not jump out of the bag and bite us. okay, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> any more public comment? >> we have a motion and a second on the amend. >> could i have a vote? >> all in favor >> aye. >> and no, opposed and now we have the amended before us, do i have a motion on the amended, and a second? >> second. >> second, all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> great. >> and the aye have it and that passes as well >> madam chair and directors, that concludes the business before you this evening, >> just a reminder that we are adjourning in memory of..., thank you, sorry. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>

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seems like a passion of david's that started in the 70s and really has a real breaking point in the early torres pr david hockney toward the mid 70s was doing one painting after another this painting looking at masterpieces looking at the reconstructionist of masterpieces. positive she an important operate of 3 people one of them has gotten up to the painting actually. this sort of thing, you know, famously cecelia and perrycy the cat those paintings one after

another there's two or three portraits and he could have gotten into the sort of thing for the rest of his life and his dealers would have been popular but he's got a problem with the voice of one point prospective. he's using photographs a good deal he'll take photographs but photographs enforce a vice like one point prospective and, in fact, he suddenly begins to find there's a distortion he makes a join eras and calls them the

photograph is wrong you can take three or four photographs to get it right as he says photograph i didn't say okay. if you look at a si closed-caption's for a second. he continues to do this but he hits a wall with the picture santa monica boulevard it's the have you across the street from miss santa monica studio and never shows this. he can't articulate is this one point prospective. he then tries other ways of trying to move prospective most noshl in this great, great painting mulling hauled drive

i've contested it's a verb your eye goes for a drive and each corner you're seeing that. but around this point he has a detour and for someone who is suspicious of photograph highs, in fact, embarked on poly reside context and a whole series of thing. once again, we're now 1980, 81 and 82 pr he goes off on a huge passion he'd make one hundreds of those. you see there were all kinds of

photograph i didn't you sanity see this stuff or was it would be like to have a photograph with multiple prospective it's a through back to cubing which was the major history of depeculiar in the last 5 hundred years it's a picture of photograph. those are navigate picasso like references this is cecil a the photographer bill bryant and his wife. they were looking at the picture itself coming into being. one of the things it took a long

time to take it 60 seconds to develop that he would have to move around a grateful. in that imagine he has to move there's a great story of steven photographed by steve and steve saying are you still taking my picture david. there's the penn text camera i takes a lot of pictures and takes them to his local photo development place where hundreds and hundreds i think he made that one person a millionaire he would work on the collages and that would take hours. again, you have the photograph that wouldn't capture you