. >> kevin carroll; martin kosinskski. >> good afternoon, i am the executive director of the hotel council of san francisco. i also serve on the hotel transportation plan community advisory committee and i also am a resident of district 7 in san francisco. the hotel council is a non-profit member organization that represents over 70 hotels and 25,000 hotel rooms in san francisco. we have the pleasure of welcoming millions of visitors to our city every year. we strongly recommend the adoption of the resolution before you to expand the number of taxis up to 200 full-time taxis. the issue of lack of taxis is one of the biggest concerns of hotel industry and work we have done with our members. we have worked closely with the mta and applaud your efforts to do more research to find out the true number of taxis that are needed. we have worked with your researcher and with the taxi companies to get this answer. when a major convention or an event is in town, it becomes even worse. we do have situations where there might be 40 or 50 people waiting for a taxi cab at one time and for hotels outside