first, i want to thank christine hayashi. she has upset every single one of us, and that is a good thing, and she keeps moving forward. i cannot imagine this industry without what she has done in the past several years. i have seen many supervisors and many mayors come through here and try to sink their teeth into the taxicab industry and sort it all out. they typically have held a bunch of hearings, got overwhelmed by the minutia, the corruption, the personalities in the industry, and then they have thrown up their hands. they have issued a whole bunch of new medallions and have then gone on to seek higher office and declared it a victory. i hope this does not happen with you folks. i hope if you seek higher office, you win, but that to fix some of the problems in the industry. none of those people who were here and have gone on ever addressed this issue of the dispatch. this idea of centralized dispatch has been years since i started in 1985, as i remember it. i have been working for two years with the only system i have wo