next speaker, please. >> bruce oka followed by jacob madel and abner [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon, mr. oka. >>> good afternoon. i hope i haven't lost my [speaker not understood]. >> i'm sure you haven't. >>> it's good to be back, by the way. >> glad to have you back. >>> i've been on a long vacation [speaker not understood]. but, one of the things that i always have advocated is that we who ride the ramp taxis have a choice of companies that we take. and i want to make sure that that is the case. i really think that we should allow as many companies that want to have ramp medallions to get a chance to get them. because i know we have a number of great ramp drivers and i know that [speaker not understood] yellow and de soto are the three biggest companies. but also every time the para transit program has conducted a trial on who is providing this service [speaker not understood] comes out and talk every time except monday i can remember. their service is better than the others, believe it or not. and right now i use -- i don't stick to just one company. i use them all bec

director oka, did you want to say anything in general to the board? bruce? are you just coming to watch good government in action, is that it? [laughter] >> okay, come on forward. in the meantime, we are honored to have the president of the board of supervisors, president chiu here. president chiu, love to have you come forward and address the board. he >> i will call the item. item 11, authorizing the director of transportation to execute a two-year lease, as tenant, with the palace at washington square for the premises at 1731 - 1741 powell street and 601 columbus avenue, for an annual rent of $400,000 plus reimbursement of certain landlord costs, not to exceed $2,350,000 related to the sfmta's use of the premises to build the central subway project tunnel, and approving total expenditures resulting from use of the site to facilitate tunnel construction in an amount not to exceed $9,150,000, including total lease costs not to exceed $3,150,000 and total additional demolition, design, construction and related costs not to exceed $6,000,000. >> good afternoo