listen. i've lived in the city for 42 years. i've been a cab driver for 23 of those years. is that it? you disgust me, the way you do this one minute. you are unbelievable. you are so right wing conservative. this is a city of harry bridges. this is a liberal city. not a conservative city, where you give cabs to the cab 9 i been on the list 17 years. i get nothing. you give away our rights. you give away our rights and our lives. i have wasted my life. i have given up -- i have given up -- >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> steven heimnay. security. >> i have. steven heimnay --

>> with all due respect to you guys giving us a minute you're getting paid to be mere. my cab that you just issued a new medallion for is in the garage so i can give you money for parking. so you're trusting me -- i'm supposed to trust you to borrow $300,000 to get a medallion, where you're watering down our investment by issuing down medallions to companies for less amount of money to the pointd9,! where i'm not even sure that it's worth it. and there's 1400 people on the waiting list. if they all did 10 years apiece you're talking about 14,000 man years. go far back far enough that's before we came to the country over the asian land bridge. thank you. >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> i told you at the beginning of this meeting that we would have two minutes, while your secretary -- >> chairman nolan: next speaker please.

highbeck and christopher -- thank you,mnx christopher fullkerson. christopher,h[: followed by jim templeton. >> what you're doing is notxrmyq regulation. it's patronage. culture. i haven't seen such bad driving since in the early 1990 when i first glimpsed the first garage scows and how they were handled. seeing a mustache -- it's a -- i think it is your duty to prevent the streets from having the cars also participate in halloween. it's obviously absurd to say that the effort is on a -- basis. the solution you are finding are in fact only those for the companies not for the 7,000 drivers. it's a clear conflict of interest for you to be regulating an interest you get a profitdpt/ from.

proposition a requires you to the taxi commission. it is not something you can just read those three lines that given you your allegedñ]gñ authority. you're supposed to be doing the taxi commission's job, not sweepingh2oe"!ñ it away. >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> jim templeton, followed byfnb corey lamb and then carl mcmurdo. >> jim templeton i started years old. i will be 68 years old in november. you people can't run a bus company. real world? $15 an hour and no pension. you're paying your muni bus drivers three times what bus drivers in the real worlda"] mae and you're using us as a piggy bank. this is going to in the 25 years i waited to get

a medallion, i waited 30 but most guys wait 25. in those 25 years they pay five to 600,000 in gates. and that money goes to buy taxicabs to pay for dispatch, to pay for the mortgage on the building. we created this industry. get your hands out of our pocket. medallions right now have put in $84 million into thisf⌞ójfp ind. and if you want to run a cab company, you run it. you can't take that 1900 a month we'll call it the milk an÷ heinicke industry. you run the damn thing. >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> corey lamb, followed by carl mcmurdo and dan hines. >> good afternoon. sorry, i have 60 seconds for a

lot of things. the one thing i want to say is this saturday, i wasixl1÷ approd by uber taxi lim ox bus whatever they're going to be to sign up for their taxi app. i have pictures of the thing. we can talk about it later. i only have 40 seconds left. my point is they went from limos to big limos now they have priuses now they want top/ujcm e taxis, next they will take buses and anything else. if anyone is listening to my voice later on, legislation, whatever, don't do anything with uber if you belongk

>> carl, dan himes, robert chisana. >> i came to speak today because at the town hall meetings only 75 people on this wait list are going to get in he advantage if the wait list gets truncated and i urge you between now and november 20 find a way to expand that maybe up to 200, 250, whatever you can. i note that under the sales and transfer program the k and pre-k medallion holders can -- there's shp &c"p% so you're making 100 million plus you're going to lease other medallions to the company. wait list suffered their whole career $qñjs no opportunity to invest and i hope you will find a way to get these people to where they can have the same

by selling medallions at half price if nothing else. thank you. >> dan himes, robert chisana, ray sherrest. >> briefly, i think that greater consideration needs to be given to the people at the top of the waiting list. these people have waited well over 15 years. and there are two separate/x/á-n groups in considerations that you need. first, the people at the very top that you need to consider first of all the people at the zero to 100 or 150 who really have no choice when this pilot program went into effect but simply wait and hope they weren't forgotten. then people farther on who came to me and asked for advice between 50 and 300 these people we couldn't advise to purchase for 250,000 but the approach you're setting up they could have bought a medallion two or three years ago 250,000 they now

have to pay%!z'ze5 300,000. that's not fair. they deserve more consideration from you. >> chairman nolan: thank you. >> robert chisana, ray shiresh, and mr. molak. my name is ray shiresh. old. right now, i'm 64 years old. and you going to take my medallion, not from me, from my family, my son, my if i start working 20 years ago at the -- supermarket aswú"9xu cashier, as manager of the store. how about right now, after 20 years, what i got? nothing. zero. i'm zero.

i have been home, i talked to my wife, she start crying. are you guys american? this iy-÷0 the way you treat yor nation? i'm talking to:

to us because we're just children you gave us one minute to speak so i am protesting to be silent. i am protesting to be silent. i am protesting to be silent. i am protesting to be silent. i am protesting to be silent. i am protesting to be silent. i am protesting. i amp9xl protesting. i am protesting. retirement. you're trying to rob my family's future. tiu)áip &c @&c"p%: thank you, >> god bless you. >> chairman nolan: thank you. >> god bless you. >> emil lawrence, brad newsom,bñ

edena. mr. lawrence here?13-;jfñ no. mr. newsham here? no. >> when i came to this country, i was a uc student ant berkeley and i missed my -- and i was on drugs. then i started driving a cab. and then i know about this waiting list. and i got married. and i have four children. and we all hope for this. and i tell them soon, soon, our life gets better. you give the guy, who has more money, chance to jump the line. you give the guy who has been benefiting from this medallion, this list, a whole lifetime and a -- exit way. you give the guy who missed his first chance, who never bothered put his name on the list a and i have earned this chance.

i'm not asking for charity. i've had people puke on me. i've cleaned my life. and now i want you to honor the contract. reward me for my labor. and when yoñ cut me off,gdja6g mr. heinicke, remember this, when you cut melt; off -- >> chairman nolan: thank you. >>v0f5e6# if you -- i going to t myself and -- and -- wait for my kids and i'll shootfuhñ myselfs over because i don't want to go to trial. >> chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> jeffrey rosen, is hew/] dqg ? isisa pardinis. >> my name is jeffrey rosen and i am on the san francisco cab drivers association, i'm the director on their board.

been driving a cab 17 years. i'm not going to yell. there a no sense in it. we've been complaining. people are upset. we're enraged as cab drivers. you can tell. but who's listening. i don'tyofsñ know. it's crucial. we've been putting our labor into this, really. the other thing that's really important here, no more earned medallions, honor the waiting list. you're forcing our hand. we're enraged. there's no other choice we have other than to pursue legal action, most likely a ballot initiative. so let the courts, let the voters, because you're not listening. can hear that. thank you for your time.

is mr. pardinis here? honorable officials? i don't think so. you are dishonoring the people you are working for and being paid by. if youi$dz)> have no common sen, continue. i don't want to mud sling. but you put yourself in a position where we feel the need to defend ourselves because you are dishonoring what is going on. be honorable, please. honor the contracts. we've been waiting for, for so many years. listen to this, or you will have to deal with the repercussions later. we're coming for you. we're not going to stand by and be rolled over, just because you

think we're easy prey. i don't think so. >> chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> okay. was that -- okay, one -- >> my name is -- and i -- the first time i come here, i've been working 22 years, 16 of those waiting on the list. families, so -- only thing is honor the list. what is the problem? what is the main concern? i me with've been dealing&zp people -- all kinds of people. you know that. it just for our family. if i was single, -- i'm not supposed to even be here>;ts ii was single. but it's for my family. i represent my family. this one here. so open your hearts. you know, think about it. and make sense.

there's a lot of people that are, you know, upset and you listening to all this. so this my concern is please, open your hearts, and think about, because we have families. and this what matters. >> chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> tareke mamud, barry toronto. >> you know what you have doneí. merely got some election campaign donations from all the cab companies, and then to honor that, you guys, mr. tompd3

>> barry toronto, julio -- >> i'm not going to say good afternoon. i'm going to say i'm going and filing a sunshine complaint. because you allowed all those youth people, all those youth past people, to speak for two minutes, public comment, when there's no item on the agenda. and we had to sit there for hours until a taxi item came up and then you gave us one minute?

what. you know what, the sheriff may have bruised his wife but you have stabbed us, not only in the back, but on our groin. is that domestic violence or what. we're inside you. we're part of your group, and you tell us that we don't belong? i'm telling you, you issued these 200 medallions. as a city agency you have to make sure they get a living wage and they have to get benefits, and proper working conditions. because you are in effect their employers. but you signed a contract with the companies that run the medallions for you. >> chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> julio paro, is he here?6 tony lee, followed by david basada and aaron small.

>> good afternoon. >> good evening, sir. my name's ton lee. if you like to improve the taxi industry in san francisco we ought to look at hong kong and new york city, look like. the driver in new york and hong kong, they engage to the customer without the cab company. but they can choose to -- cab company as well, but they can use -- engage the customer without the cab company. the -- cab company, you need it or don't need it san francisco very soon otherwise the cab company has a lot of lobbyist come to you and you listen to them because they have too much money and too much power, they know a lot of people in city hall. we a cab driver lit a guy and now just 200 cab are going to the cab company. i think cab drivers should have same equal rights to lease the medallion from you, it's like 1900 from you, that's a way you can give a job to a cab driver.

thank you. >> chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> david basada, aaron small, abell amid. >> can you show this to the people. okay. my name is david basada, medallion 833. i have here the constitution of the united states. i didn't write it. it>h;+

of the medallion that they have waited for so long? this is abridging the life, liberty and property of any of the citizens. this is a clear violation of the constitution. i kept this book until i got -- from the state university. are you trying to say that the state university is doing illegal? >> chairman nolan: thank you. >> aaron small, abdell hamid, tackunbow. >> arin small, 16 years yellow cab for desoto, been on the list 14 years, here to protest your action in giving medallions to the companies over people like me that have been on the list and been working on the street for 20 years, a lot of us a lot more than 20 years. as far as i understand it, this

fairness. is that notry(1n correct? would you not agree with me? i don't get any response. but this action of yours to bypass people lat myself and give those medallions to the companies and retain that income public trust. everybody who hears this story can't believe it. it's not going over well. i beg you to urgently reconsider your actions to something more sane and sensible and in line with your mandate as commissioners on the taxi industry. thank you. >> chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> abdell hamid, solrin amad. >> hi. my name is -- i've been a cab driver for 12 years. i've been on the waiting list

for about 12 years. and i've been told when i putmmy free. and i've received a letter from sfmta saying that i'm eligible to by it for 250. and i just want to show my feeling -- i'm -- reported from the mta that i've spent so many years trying to get to a point where i been told, and now just i feel like i've been let down by these 200 medallions given to companies and i feel i've been left over and i don't feel that's right and i've been working hard and had to make decisions to start driving a cab and since -- i'm are sorry i was

not clear enough but you got the message. i please urge you to review your -- decisions lately that doesn't help cab drivers who are part of the mta and who helped build this industry -- who just came. thank you for listening to me although i didn't make sense but i think you got my thoughts. >> amad albond. >> good afternoon. this is my second time here. today. and i've workedwy time, which was last month, going to two towng-q]2 meetingd as such we're going to be in the agenda today. speak today. but i don't think i have enough time. and i think that the same way the way the taxi part of the

sfmta -- in the industry. it's what we are here, everybody is shouting here. i hope there's going to be a structure, a well-governed structure, where everybody is supposed to follow the rules. we follow the rules. and i hope you don't think that i'm supposed to say i can't say because i don't have enough time. maybe next time the time here will be -- and i hope so too. thank you. >> chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> amad -- >> good evening, mr. chairman and director. i'm not going to -- i'll speak very silent and -- okay. i'm an applicant on the list. i put my name in 1995 and i been waiting. i'm 62 years old. i've been waiting on that medallion. and then 50 medallions have been issued seniority which is director heinicke, when he was

taxi commission, i remember he said -- was to be 50 unlimited number but now they are full time. and then another hundred, 200 went back to the dump so we are skip 200 names. so you issue the 200 for the company for 1900 and they're goix(?kañ to charge for 5500. applicant, in need -- more in need for that than the company need. obviously is a contract and please -- it. thank you very much. >> chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> -- snyder followed by peter wit and ann gotra. >> full time cab driver will

drive about 36,000 miles a year. and carry between six and 9,000 passengers. most cab drivers are not the 1%. most cab drivers don't live in forest hills. they are real workers, doing our real job. when you change the time limits from the first part of the meeting to the second part of the meeting, because maybe you are tired, is not only disrespectful of the working poor, but may very well be under the sunshine ordinance, and any law case, a denial of equal

protection of the law. >> chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> peter wit, followed by gotra and then barry corngold. >> mr. wit. >> well, geez, first of all we all know what a new york minute is. we all know what a mexican minute is. now we all know what a san francisco minute is. you know, fudge, i know you love to eat fudge and you like to fudge your minutes. we should get a minute and 59 seconds. thank you very much. okay. this is just the beginning. you know, this is what you've done. and you will reap the repercussions. okay? because you have created it and u grown it from a little seedling. one minute. disrespectful? you might as well just puke on us. okay? kick us in the -- where do you want to cut the list off.

i think the last person on the list should be honored. where do you want to cut us off, at the neck? i don't really need to say any more. thank you. >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> barry corn. gold, burke. >> i am ashley, i'm a religious person -- very critical people are upset. they want their right --epñvw f constituent right because when we start the cab -- medallion given by the list, they're free, and then they start the price with the guys putting not right, they like to pay the price. please give to them medallion, make peace. god bless you. >> chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. >> barry corngold, branton