we have here with us today christian hsshashi, who is available to present the request to you. >> good afternoon, madam president, board member, my name is christian na* has yash shall, i'm deputy director for taxi services for the municipal transportation agency and we're here to bring for you your consideration this memorandum of understanding to clarify our appellant procedures for taxi related permits as specified in the mou. now, this generally comes up in the context of either the revocation or denial aof a medallion permit, and some of the rational behind this mou is that these cases are factually complex to either bring a permit revocation case or to deny somebody a medallion permit, we do a lot of review of individual entries over 4 or 5 years on paper trip sheets and compare those to detailed airport records and conduct other elements of investigation in order to determine whether somebody is in fact a full time taxi driver and qualified to either obtain or keep that medallion permit, the outcome is critically important, it's very important to the next qualified applicant on