for taxi meter devices and i'll explain a little bit more why in a second, but i want to thank kate torren and her crew from the sfmta taxi shop for their work and allowing me to sponsor for these measures as well as the treasurer tax collector who's represented today by amanda freed for their collective work that's going to bring some, i think, fairness, a level playing field and relief to our by leaguered taxi community. ms. torren is not available today as court proceedings over our taxi dime scheme are going on in the civil division across the street, but she's represented by philip crana from the sfmta. with that, i will give a very brief synopsis beforehanding it over to the aforementioned folks which is that the t.n.c. industry lyft and uber are not yet frankly measurable. their devices which are these little things are not measurable by the state and local government as to accuracy and therefore are not being charged fees at this time and it seems to be that their counter parts not be charged for them either. in addition, the city has been trying to get everybody on a march 31st pa