mr. nolan, when i was growing up until country i was surrounded by nolans. you have a great name. i babysat nolans, the first girl i ever kissed was a nolna. you have any decency, any irish in you you will restore hope. especially drivers on the list in their fifties and sixties. some of them can't change a lightbulb. our whole life has gone into this thanks a lot. (applause) >> i have two purposes of speaking, want to clarify the details of the half-price medallion offer; the other is to implore the board to extend the offer to 300 rather than 150 applicants. each medallion moves 1.5 to 2 names; about 500 people can be brought into the fold if you allowed 300. your workers are your greatest asset. is consider forgoing the extra revenue you would get from sharing the other 150 medallions with these drivers and not forgo the goodwill of your workforce. also these people that we have gotten into the fold have proved that they can dodge accident and deal with the public; the previous speakerjerry is a perfect example. he is something like 400 on the list. this is a career worker coun

. >> secretary boomer: [indiscernible] >> chairman nolan: mr. malik? [sounds like] >> good afternoon. honorable chairman and directors. -- malik, longtime driver. not on the agenda. mr. chairman, a few months ago you requested or ordered the sfmta to bring up credit card issue again. a lot of companies are charging five percent or more. forcing the drivers to accept credit card via merchant, we pay the license fee to the city. we are independent contractors. i do now you can forces to accept credit card even though the people go to the clubs and bars. ethey don't accept credit cards. they have to pay cash. the minimum is $21 dollars. if you go to the bar and order $6-$10, you have to pay $21, and if you want another drink, you pay another $21. the same people, for $7 ride, they gave you credit card. and some people force you to accept credit card. which is very unfair. if you look at the federal law, -- you have to take a position, accept the law or not. allows the charge the minimum of 10 dollars, or allow us to have a signposted, only cash. is up to

. >> chairman nolan: will members consent will ask mr. reiskin. thank you, ms. boomer. >> director ramos: i know we are trying to move quickly. one more thing with respect to safety and well-being of some of our employees. i regularly see our fair inspectors out there. they're always telling me horror stories about how they were assaulted, running into issues with increased amount of enforcement. i am wondering if there is some way where we can have maybe staff look into - if not outright - a little bit more awareness building on the part of the riding public and how it is a crime to assault and abuse our fare inspectors. >> chairman nolan: we also received indication from the president of 258 about drivers as well; he was referring to the driver after the world series in the bus, attacked, set on fire. all that mr. reiskin, if you could come back to some point, i look around the country and see what best practices might be there. i am sure that fare inspectors is tough stuff. >> secretary boomer: -- report. >> good afternoon. a few things for you today. first o

. >> chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> good afternoon mr. lawrence. >> ladies and gentlemen, commissioners, good afternoon. i welcome this opportunity to speak here today. basically i have to say this. i believe this is a big horse and pony show; you have implemented your strategy. cabdrivers are getting phone calls whether they will accept every value for 150,000. -- --- you inherited a taxi commission, you do not inherit proposition k. you are taking away what is the taxi drivers pension and lifetime income. with no compensation. you have given them a kick in the ass with no compensation. that is what you intended to do today. it's already been implemented. your big meeting here today is awash. it was my hope that when mr. reiskin became director they would have erased what one of the most corrupt men in san francisco did. you are converting pensions of taxidrivers into your own income. you will give free bus rides to children by using medallions that you will sell. what is all that about? if you look back at the history of this commission

nolan: i am interested in that. that would be a wonderful thing to be able to do that. mr. -- point about being at a level, middle level, i would be interested in seeing that. >> a lot of the cabdrivers have talked about sort of the other challenges that they face in their industry, corruption may be within the cap companies, maybe with non-driving drivers holding the down is required to drive, competition, challenges around technology that may be they don't have the access. do you feel that these things we can address with more resources in our agency, our department to clean up this. one of the drivers mentioned there is no future. i don't agree with that. we are missing a lot of riders out there; we can bring the taxi industry up to the level where everyone in the city can get a cab, and we can create a lot more passengers. i want to get a sense if you feel that with more resources available we'll able to address this issues going forward. >> with the resources we have had we have made great progress in those goals. for example on the issue of the driver experience of t