thoughtful comment -- i like to thank you for the thoughtful amendment that malcolm heinicke made. it helps. i would like to urge every one of you to get funding to start enforcing the city regulations and to push the mta to get an attorney. i mean, you've got hundreds of them out there. to improve business for taxis. this is your aim -- this is your stated aim by the director. you want more taxis. you want more public transportation. you've got $20 million from us. under this proposal, you will get another $30 million. put some of it into enforcement. tomorrow if not today. you willfá make a happier publi, and you will make a happier taxi industry. thank you. director nolan: next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i have been a luxury driver since 1979. i have had mine medallions since 1996. -- i have had my medallion since 1996. there was a lot of time and effort that went into this, and we agreed to what some would say a rather users speak -- user is -- usurous fee. we agreed to it because it seemed like the city needed the money, and we needed the program for an exit strategy.

malcolm heinicke was going to raise the price back to $200,000. why is he dictating this industry?y is he meeting with people? if this is a true story and if he is running this, all of it is just for nothing. it is sad. they have to lose their money to come here and speak. they have to pay $300,000 when there is no business in the city now. it is a different year now. when the drivers are circling around the city hall and did not come to this meeting, what did you do? you just scratched them and did not pay even one word -- you just crushed them. same thing is going to happen. you are adding 200 more calves next meeting, crushing the drivers, but when the companies came and met with malcolm heinicke and gave him the indication they would go for a lawsuit, the price came back. why not cut $300,000 back to $250,000? why can you not run muni from some other source? why our pocket? why everything for the muni drivers? why the taxi driver money to feed you? you are incapable, or they are making you incapable. >> i guess i do not like very much the mood over the years, but i think if dir

i first want to say the person who should be running the town hall meetings is malcolm heinicke, andi am not lying. i sunshined some documents which back up some of the things i had to say. you as directors should realize that there is more to stories then just hearing from intermediaries. if you had any direct contact with malcolm heinicke, there may be some ethical issues involved here because malcolm heinicke, according to these e-mails, has had a lot of input to go with implementing policy. there is a difference between creating policy and approving policy compared to how you implement it. the director claims that it was his plan. the documents disagree with your statements today, ed reiskin. they do. there's a few paragraphs. the first as early as august 3. it says "i disagree. i make sure we approve this." also, who wrote this? i believe chris hiyashi had a lot to do with this, but she is supposed to be on leave. according to what was discussed at town hall meetings, the plan was written by somebody other than the staff in the office. also, regarding the waitlist, all current m

none of you know anything about [inaudible] accept malcolm -- except malcolm heinicke. please demand it go away. thank you. Ñi>> our last two speakers. >> this afternoon, commissioners. you have a nest egg, a golden goose. you got $20 million from the taxi industry. it cannot even run the buses. you understand, i am not talking about what you do to the drivers, what you do to anything. but your massing -- you are messing up the bus lanes. taxis tecolote to get from a to be so it costs more money and there are not enough drivers -- taxis. it cannot enforce the white zones. so the taxis and everybody else double park or triple parks in the whole of the downtown so you have gridlock. why? it is not about money because you could find these people. you could tell the hotels i am sorry, this is not a parking zone. the white zone is for dropping off and picking up. but you cannot do it. you do not care. you're still getting money from us. we do not understand, you're not sending attorneys up to sacramento are talking to other cities on ways to defeat these electronic new metho

none of you know anything about [inaudible] accept malcolm -- except malcolm heinicke.demand it

it is important that some of you besides malcolm heinicke get some of these questions answered or seeyourself how operations work. not just from one company but maybe several or to go to the town hall meetings or thexd tacf it is existing again. that is the question that should be resolved and you should hold an agenda item. that is the one good thing that nathaniel ford did due to agree the tax exempt it became a useless and a day. regarding these items before you, there was a town hall meeting but the outrage was so terrible. the director decided information needs to get out earlier. with regarding these, there has been little outrage and the impact on the industry as great in some areas. that -- [unintelligible] without more outreach. the average cab driver comes from a country where english is fánot their first language, did not get the american education, and understands the impact that these may have on their ability to do their business and do their job. you're making a lot of these cabdrivers' employees. there's a lot of risk involved by treating these rules and regulations. a

it is important that some of you besides malcolm heinicke get some of these questions answered or seerself how operations work. not just from one company but maybe several or to go to the town hall meetings or thexd tacf it is existing again. that is the

i think you should reject this plan right now and have some town hall meetings where malcolm heinickeand director reiskin show up at the town hall meetings and listened to what the drivers are saying and their concerns. all the other plans we have discussed have included half the medallions at least going to those drivers on the list to have changed their lives. we've had no other choice. for the last 32 years, there was no other option. they have made these career choices, and you are just throwing them under the bus. as far as being assets to the city, that originated from prop. k which says taxicab permits are the property of the people and city of san francisco and shall not be sold,, or transferred. the spirit of the statement was not to make them a revenue source for the city. it was to give them to taxi drivers and have them as a revenue source for taxi drivers. now the mta is competing with cabdriver's for the medallions themselves, who have been waiting all their lives for this promotion, and now the city wants to take that away and use it for their own revenue. the priority