for the record my name is emilio lawrence. i have spoken many times in the past. i want to talk tonight about the special police have done a little research. i don't know what's happened over the next number of years, 1995, 1999, there used to be about 450 special police. when the sfpd had about 1200 police officers. all of a sudden that number has shrunk to 25 or 28. the pay roll of the sfpd has come to some million today. every police department on the peninsula have switched off to the sheriff's department including oakland which is down to 200 officers. the main professor: is payroll. due to searching i found out the average federal policemen makes about $55,000 a year. but the sfpd they start at 80 to $90,000 a year and by the end of the year they are making $140,000 with over time. as payroll and pensions explode particularly with the police union. we have yet to collect one dime from the president of the police officers association who owes the city $650,000. the police have not done anything to collect that money. police are making $700,000 a year doing a

ford record my name is emilio lawrence. i'm before a resident of san francisco for 44 years, a taxi driver for 15. also i'm the holder of med allion 9015. the taxi business has changed so long with the limousine. we are being find by the taxi, sfmta for picking up wheelchairs that are not pair a transit wheelchairs. it does not allocate any so-called paired transit wheelchair picks up to taxi cabs. they no longer give us to drivers. they still fine us. what i have done today is to bring in what we call -- this is called a walker. we literally pick up hundreds of them on a monthly basis waned get find by the mta for picking them up because they don't have a paired transit ticket where they have to pay the mta to get one. we are find on a monthly basis for picking these up. this is the wheelchair of the 90s, 2013, more are going to be used. there is nothing in your system to accommodate them. i bring it up here to show you that these fold up and can go into any taxi cab and don't have to go into a ramp for wheelchairs. i also