next speaker, please. >> carl mcmurto. mr. chairman, that is the last person who turned in a speaker card on this. >> good afternoon, mr. shall murto. >>> thank you. i want to thank the commissioner for showing up at the town hall meeting a couple weeks ago talking about the proposal be in front much you in two weeks to transition the wait list into a different system. that proposal, i'm here to can ask that you consider expanding the number from 150 people to 300 who will be able to purchase medallions at half price. i want to first talk about the two advantages people get. they get a $90,000 equity jump start for permits transferrable, and they can get $240,000 for it after paying 150. so, they have something -- most of them are going to want to build equity. the second thing which is more subtle is once they have the medallion, they'll typically give about $2200 in lease income from having the permit, pay 800 towards the loan, 400 in income tax. that gives them $1,000 income increase as a quality of life improvement. and it

. >> [speaker not understood] followed by mark gruberg and then carl mcmurto. previously he did distribute some communication that i will send to you. mark gruberg followed by [speaker not understood]. those are the last two people who turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon, mark gruberg, united taxicab workers. at your last meeting some of us were really angry and i think we had a right to be. i've been doing this for many years and for me it's always been a question of how do we provide citizens and visitors to san francisco with superior taxi service, keeping in mind issues such as driver income, working conditions, fair treatment, opportunity, the opportunities which you're now stripping away piece by piece. equally important to all of that is the question of respect. and i believe that was lacking at your last meeting. people have waited for over three hours to speak. they stayed because, in many cases, their futures were on the line and you get one minute, and that one minute maybe saved yourself 15 minutes of meeting time. this t

next speaker, please. >> carl mcmurto. mr. chairman, that is the last person who turned in a speaker card on this. >> good afternoon, mr. shall murto. >>> thank you. i want to thank the commissioner for showing up at the town hall meeting a couple weeks ago talking about the proposal be in front much you in two weeks to transition the wait list into a different system. that proposal, i'm here to can