. >> following speakers, aaron burke, jenna pomeroy, peter hillin. >> i am steve unger. i'm a resident of san francisco and i would like to thank the commissioners for allowing me to speak. i holy support this very reasonable proposition that's been put forth. i live in the golden gateway apartments across from the ferry build and we started with a pile of 200 phone books of which now 105 are left are just going to be thrown into a landfill. i understand that the business community could be concerned with this. i think it's a very reasonable plan given that anyone who wants -- wants one of these phone books can readily get it and with the proliferation of the internet now, it will be interesting to see what comes up with this. one other comic comment. this is the first place i ever lived in which i feel there is praptory democracy and i want to congratulate you guys and women. >> thank you. next speaker? >> good evening, commissioners. and thank you for allowing me to speak. name is steve barton, and i'm the owner of passion cafe on sixth street and some of you have been

. >> i'm aaron burke, san francisco business owner. i've owned a restaurant and also smault consulting practice in san francisco for many years. and i've tried a whole bunch of different ads. yesio pages, online, different trade association magazines and definitely there's more bang for the buck in a lot of those for me. it changed a bit over time. but to make a point when somebody was talking about the -- it seems like it would level the playing field to look at the yellow pages true distributing when all of the local trade associations, merchant associations, the small community-focused newspapers give more real distributing figures because they're actually handing it to people and getting it to people. so it's an unfair practice as they rezribblet it to all of these people so that makes sense. and all of the people that use it will still continue to get it. i talked to a lot of other business owners. i talked to steve barton. he mentioned that earlier. i talked to elaine jennings from small small potatoes. just a lot of the other bu