. >> danielle belitos and john santos. >> i jusi'm a minority owner ana small business, doing business with city of san francisco. i like to, i guess, congratulate tom maguire for being a director with smta and you would like what is this commitment to small business? protect the small business. we don't have lawyers and we don't have anybody to protect us and we're experiencing hardship to say the least. we are being put out of business due to just -- i don't want to call it certain type of decision, but you can call it for yourself when you see what i have to say and what i have to present. so my question to you, what is your commitment to small business and how important is a small business? we are african-american owned. we are being targeted because we're doing the right thing representing sfmta. >> john santos by destore. >> i'm a ranger for skip and i was just shocked over what the discussion was, you know, because i'm still building my life and skip gave me an opportunity to get off tenderloin where i was living in an sro where half of the people would either steal something or