. >> mark gruberg? >> thank you board members mark gruberg i've been long associated with united taxi cab workers and have spoken on their behalf many times and it's fully supportive of the new you know i of the new union of san francisco taxi worker's alliance and has been around for almost 30 years now and i think has very significant accomplishments over the years but it never achieved the goal of a mass taxi driver organization. and that is now happening through the san francisco taxi worker's alliance drivers from all ends of the taxi industry are coming together in this new organization and once it is fully fledged united taxi cab worker's tend to merge itself into the alliance and cab drivers need a strong organization to defend their rights promote their interests, and we are looking forward to working with this board in that capacity, and i just wanted to convey that to you. thank you. >> thank you mr. gruberg. >> we have the last 2 people who have turned in the speaker card. >> thank you. toda

. >> thank you again mark gruberg and i want to point out a couple of things not to point fingers because there's enough blame to go around and in fact much of what is happening here in the taxi industry is beyond the not that long after that. joo. >> >> sgroo. >> speaker: last year -- we're not getting that back most of it is going into your general fund there's a driver fund that has 3.8 $3.8 million in it comes out to about $500 per driver and it's only augmented at 10 at $10,000 a month 120 thousand per year which is $15 per driver and you can see that money that money isn't going to go far and we must have an enhancement of the driver fund the main source of funding was cut out by this board a couple of years ago. thank you >> thank you. >> mary maguire and maguire. >> mary maguire i don't know why you don't have the numbers i don't know how you can you can do that. at any rate the demand for services is clearly there but just think of the money you could have made from the medallion sales program the millions of dollars that i think won't be there because the cab companies are reall

gruberg said a lot of that is out of our hands and a lot of it is competitive alignment and let me start with a mandate that all -- i didn't mean to force you to take responsibility for this i was one of the proponents i thought that the private ap sector could fill the void and seems that they have come close and i'd like now to have a regulation coming from this board board to the industry soon before my kids dress up for for halloween if possible, that mandates that all cabs be ap enabled and on an ap that services a very large number i'll let the regulators pick the number, of cabs and basic follow up which should be fees should be feasible electronically that people are actually using them and not a phantom sign up and making sure all of our in coming drivers know how to use these aps and fully understand the benefit this will have for them. the ap will solve the credit card problem problem and not only will that give our customers a better payment option which we know is what they want, as i've been saying for a long time it will enhance the safety of our drivers as this becomes a