emile lawrence. noit here. charles rathbone, andfá jim gillespie. >> allow me to say thank you to your staff for incorporating in this item many suggestions that we made during the taxi town hall meetings. those hours were long but there were well spent and much appreciated, particularly the chains that director reiskin just made. we have one other concern and that is with the scheduled fiennes. on the second page to the bottom, the fine is $670 -- $617 to accepting gifts from drivers. we believe this is too broadly worded. it makes a cab company liable for frusen transactions that may occur between individuals that we may not even be aware of and that we're not party to. to illustrate the problem, consider what happened at the luxor cab office. one of our long time drivers brought in a beautiful chocolate cake to celebrate one of our staff members' birthday. there was no solicitation of the cake, there was no quid pro quo and about a dozen people enjoyed pieces of the cake. under this section would be liable f

. >> for the record, i am emile lawrence. yesterday, we had a meeting between the taxi drivers, the taxi companies, the live data that i believe on the new cameras which not only report conversations tell live stream directly to the computer. this was, i believe, to be shared with the police department. is it legal and exactly what kind of data does the police department wants from passengers and taxi drivers? this is real time data but goes straight into the computer. they can hear on the monitor is exactly what is going on. i bring it up and because this is very cheap technology. it also can be applied to a policeman. while he is talking to a suspect, you can see exactly what is going on. this stuff is only $200-$400. i bring it to your attention has something to possibly replace teasers, guns, whatever they happen to be. i agree with the technology and not being and of the times and i can state that emphatically with my experience with the detectives in the city. they don't have anything close to what the fbi has or variou

my name is emile lawrence.talking about the requirement to give -- for vehicles to change color schemes. that is the number-one problem. if you go to newark city you cannot get a cab between four and six because they are changing shifts. we're -- we have 1500 cabs. 500 are not available for pick ups. they're changing the shift, taking a cab in simply sell the market to get a new driver. they're not available at the hot spots when people go to dinner between 4 and 7:00 p.m. those caps are not available. soleil they're requiring security cameras to be in calves. that is in there now. i do not know if you have the approval from passengers to have live stream information to the asaph pe and the mta. i am not clear on that where the law stands. i'm not sure where it is on a federal basis. it should be[:0nto. we get no with information from sfpd on people that are committing murders nonstop in the city. if we're going to do that maybe we should make it a two-way street that we shouldÑi have copies because a lot of cr

. -- my name is emil lawrence.ad a lot of testimony in the past year about permits in the city. but without the drivers, you do not have anything. they buy the taxis and repair the vehicles and ensure them. if you think they are your assets, we must be your slave spirited we have no benefits. we have no medical. and when you get into an accident when it is not even your fault, you get bills of $2,800 from hospital, from the fire department, from the police department. that is not covered by any insurance by the city and county of san francisco. that is the reality. looking at citations in this city, one of the drivers was complaining about, no other vehicle that is associated with transportation in the city and county of san francisco get parking tickets. the department of transportation does not, muni does not, by -- but taxi drivers do. when you look at all of this and combine it and you have a taxi advisory commission -- [tone] you keep them in the dark and make decisions without consulting them. that has been a

. >> emile lawrence, and he is the last person to have turned in a speaker card.gtv will turn it on as soon as you start talking. >> callous disregard. it is notfá just the bus system. it is taxi drivers as a whole. i heard a lot of terms hear about more taxi service, and it is not clear to me exactly what that means. full-service cap companies -- i thought they were all full- service cab companies. there is no definition of exactly what that means. someone earlier spoke about the new york taxi commission, but he left out the commission. we no longer have a taxi commission in san francisco. the assets of new york city are sold out right and trade like stocks. if you forgot, if you go back to 1978, so do the medallions in san francisco. they traded like stocks until they were manipulated into bankruptcy. that is what happened. those are the facts. if you look it over about the medallion program in san francisco, you see 5000ñr people that drive taxis. up to 3000 on the taxi list. what do you do? you shall or may consider people on the list