to the extent that there is anything that folkestone obligor feel good but i take responsibility forose. i think in presenting this to the board i do it in a spirit i believe they're open to feedback including some of what we heard and have seen in advance of this meeting to make it fair and workable and that is the spirit in which this was developed. i will walk through the couple slides to take what is a complex issue and try to lay it out. that would be open to any clarifying questions or comments and i would like to yield to the chair for his response before public comment. if we could go to the brief slide presentation. somebody made reference and appropriately so in public comment to what is the overall plan and the board did adopt a strategic plan for the agency this past january when into effect this june and we're building now action steps to achieve the objectives under each goal of the strategic plan. the transit first goal that is within our strategic plan is one that i think absolutely requires good taxi service in the city in order to make transit for sterility. if we w

and i would just say this, that mayor menino and mayor emmanuel of folkestone philadelphia to say the things they said, we don't want them in our city, yet they embrace barack obama who had the very same position as dan cathy up until a month ago. the very same position. we love him. vote for him. not only will they not be barack obama's position, they want him. so this is the hypocrisy you see. emma, in some respects i'm glad the democratic party did what they did. this has certainly been a position they've held or if they didn't think it was the right time for them to come forward. now they've shown their true stripes like barack obama has and now the american republic can make a right choice for the american country. >> my name is scabby angela and i'm a student at oregon state. i've grown up in california my whole life and i can see that a lot of -- >> user, god bless you. amazing. >> my close friends will be voting for obama because that's the status quo in such a liberal state feared its disappointing because a lot of them will take time to learn about the position and watched t