and why did you allow that medallion hold er to sell? >> i don't remember, i remember the corporate permit and they are not allowed to sell period and the other one, was simply because the conduct that we found was agregious enough that we were able to take them to a hearing and penalize them a fine amount and in lou, of that, they decided rather than losing the medallion and paying an at dishal $96,000 in fines they would rather turn it in. >> but was that medallion revoked at the time that you allowed him to sell. >> no, it was not, it was simply a discussion beforehand. >> we had initiated proceedings. but we had not gone to hearing. >> okay, thank you mr. murray. >> i have nothing. >>

into that medallion. >> there has been and that is correct. and he has paid for his medallion and all of the records there, he paid $250 and took a loan out with a bank. under the revocation, and mr. goldstein is correct, he would get most of that money back but he would lose, $50,000 approximately of that money. and so, he would get back roughly $200, for the 250 but he would lose 50,000 of that money. >> i was going to say that the only way prior to revocation assuming that we were not moving forward, i mean that he has the right, if there were no issues, he would have the right

into that medallion. >> there has been and that is correct. and he has paid for his medallion and all of the records there, he paid $250 and took a loan out with a bank. under the revocation, and mr. goldstein is correct, he would get most of that money back but he would lose, $50,000 approximately of that money. and so, he would get back roughly $200, for the 250 but he would lose 50,000 of that money. >> i was going to say that the only way prior to revocation assuming that we were not moving forward, i mean that he has the right, if there were no issues, he would have the right to sell his medallion for the full amount. >> and currently what is the medallion worth in today's value? >> $250,000. >> it is still worth. >> and the mta sets the price. >> so he can sell it or he can't sell it >> if he were not having any issues. >> meaning, >> and with the board, correct. he would have been able to sell it. if he just had felt like, you know what i don't want this any more i am going to sell it. >> he cannot sell it. >> not after revocation. no.

if my medallion is going to be taken away it is going to hurt my family a lot. thank you. >> we can hear from the department now. mr. murray? >> >> good commissioners, jarvis can the sfmta and we are here related not because of something that is a minor infraction, i think that the average person you would have to ask yourself, how would that person feel if they found out that a driver a taxi driver who owned the vehicle was using their credit card when they were not in the vehicle and running it and charging money on that credit card. i think it is our duty as the sfmta, to up hold our drivers and especially our medallion holders who have complete ownership and control of that vehicle to a standard that says you can't do this to the riding public. you can't do this to our most vulnerable population which is the elderly and disabled. what we have here is the usage of the para transit card and now i explained it in my brief but to quickly so that you can understand again, the para transit program is a program that is being used here in san francisco to allow our

and why did you allow that medallion hold er to sell? >> i don't remember, i remember the corporate permit and they are not allowed to sell period and the other one, was simply because the conduct that we found was agregious enough that we were able to take them to a hearing and penalize them a fine amount and in lou, of that, they decided rather than losing the medallion and paying an at dishal $96,000 in fines they would rather turn it in. >> but was that medallion revoked at the time that you allowed him to sell. >> no, it was not, it was simply a discussion beforehand. >> we had initiated proceedings. but we had not gone to hearing. >> okay, thank you mr. murray. >> i have nothing. >> thank you. >> commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i just will start out, because he it is significantly egregious conduct in my mind, but impart of it is that it is the population that is being served here. and a para transit community and i think that the evidence establishes the fraud and the abuse on this community. and in the public. and it ha

this is a serious problem that is going to threaten the medallion system. if companies like mine are actually going to soon say why am i paying up to $2500 for the use of a medallion if i can get a state tcp license or state new tnp license put vehicles charge for rides, put as many cars as i want, this is going to move in this direction if we don't do something about this. as a matter of fact, this is not like what i would call hitchhiking dot com. when you do not set standards for who can pick up the public, criminality will follow. this industry needs to be tightly regulated in terms of the type of vehicles, the inspections on vehicles, when we just look the other way here, the industry will collapse and it's starting to do that now. i truly believe the industry still can be saved and can be recovered but when there's an open entry now to anyone picking up the public as a public passenger vehicle, it is an existential moment for the taxi industry. thank you. >> howard strassner. >> good afternoon, director, howard strassner, i want to continue where we l

talk about when we spend money from the sfmta this is an opportunity for me to say with the new medallion sale system and the revenues generated from the taxi industry, there must at some time be some investment back into the industry not just going forward with different types of subsidies or agreements into new programs but i ask you to really redirect some resources back to the industry as you mentioned about pr, driver training, there's so much that can be done with very little and with the medallion sales and income as they are, i really hope you would look at that as you go forward with new contracts and put money toward these things. >> thank you, mr. kim, next speaker. >> charles rathbone, followed by ed healy. >> hiagain, commissioners, just very briefly, this would be money well spent, this proposal. if nothing else it will help put an end to the dangerous system of time-based shorts out of the airport and instead go to a gps based, they important to do that to cut down on speeding on the freeways. thank you. >> next speaker. >> ed healy and then rashid. >> i think this is very

the list of the mfa, they going to complain to the mta, they going to push them to add like new medallion and who is going to hit the number, the company that collect $86,000 a year from the driver and they pay the driver like some money and the problem is the failure of dispatch and is also uber cab company, a violation of license, transportation violation of public utility commission, violation of no license with mta, violation of dispatch, it is also -- listen to me please -- also there is now two meter in the cab, one is allowed by san francisco weight and measures and mta, the other one is not, belongs to uber, who is uber, who is uber technology. they don't have license, how do they operate. all of them from uber technology, the game is cash money and all over they are going to put us out of business. >> nor aiesa >> good evening, my name is nor aiesa, i have been a driver for about 35 years, i have experienced up cycles and down cycles. this cycle i must be honest it's one of the worst i have experienced and yet i have not seen the market end of the tunnel. but i still strongly bel

however, when we started to do some of the medallion reform we lost some of the effect of that incentivey taxi drivers and it's basically $10 pick up per wheelchair trip. so it's a pretty significant benefit. and for any wheelchair customer who is picked up from an area outside of the central part of the city, a driver will receive front of the line credit at the airport, which is a big deal for a taxi driver. it can save them and get them back in service much more quickly than they would otherwise. we estimate that we would have about 800 requests for wheelchair service during december based on past data and for every pickup of a paratransit debit card holder, the driver will be paid $10. so for the moment we're only able to do this for paratransit debit card-holding wheelchair users, because that is the only payment mechanism that we have. but as we look at this pilot and evaluate its effectiveness, we will figure out ways to expand it. so some good news there. we do have some ramp kind of larger ramp reform coming in the new year. this is something that we didn't think could wait and

in another botticelli portrait, a medallion of cosimo the elder is held by a fashionable young man.otticelli's painting epitomizes the shift in patronage during the second part of the 15th century, away from the world of public competition, into the private flortine palazzo. the patrician families of florence erected monuments to their own prestige in the palazzi of the 15th century. palazzo rucellai, by the architect alberti, was admired for its classical detail and the elegance of its proportions. more magnificent was the palace designed for cosimo de medici. this was not simply a home, but the center of a vast banking empire. massive doors and rusticated masonry on the ground floor, increasingly smoother stonework above, created a style that was to be imitated by palaces and banks in europe and america for the next 500 years. de medici created an elegant society where artists and scholars studied astrology and mythology, reviving antiquity for their private pleasure. cosimo commissioned the humanist ficino to translate the works of plato, and out of this intellectual climate came

the limited amount of taxi medallions in new york city makes it easier for drivers to lease rather than buy cabs. u-s existing home sales dropped to their lowest level in a year last month... with experts blaming high prices and interest rates for keeping buyers on the sidelines.sales fell 4 point 3 percent to nearly 5 million units, the third monthly fall in a row and the lowest since december 2012, according to the national association of realtors. but it was the first time in a year thar prices didn't rise at a double-digit pace. widespread cell phone theft is prompting two california senators to call for a "kill switch". almost one in three u.s. robberies involve smartphone theft, according to the fcc.but critics say a permanent kill switch could bring serious risks, including hackers who could disable mobile devices. it's beginning to look a lot like a challenge. retailers are making it harder to return merchandise this year. sears, amazon, toys r us and best buy are some of the stores that have changed return policies. companies are giving consumers less time to return certain gif

make the day drivers busier, they get a better view, you are going to protect the value of the medallion. the next issue is the -- oh, shoot -- i wanted to say i think it's important -- the last issue is the person assigned to look at this, jerry robins, i am part of his fan club. i want to say that the people who are concerned about this and getting this improved, the best person to look at this and solve the problem is jerry robins so i think the fact that he did the research on this, he is probably the most underpaid city employee because of the amount of effort he picks in trying to solve this problem. so i hope you will take his advice and the fact he likes to compromise. thank you ?oo smoo next speaker. >> espinola jackson and chris (inaudible) those are the last two speakers on this item. >> good afternoon, miss jackson. >> good afternoon, i didn't come here to speak on this item but after hearing so many speakers, i would like to say 70 years ago my mother came to san francisco and i went to school at hayes school across the street from alamo park is. listening to many of the spe

it's their medallions of particular christ images that adorn the bar.mming me out. maybe it's just me, but when i'm getting a nice late morning buzz, i don't particularly want jesus looking down at me from, like, everywhere. >> how drunk can you get here? don't you feel a little guilty for getting really drunk here? >> of course. >> this is one of my favorite things. >> this is your favorite thing. try it. it's amazing. >> gaze away disapprovingly all you like, jesus. i am happy now. overlooking granada, the hillside of sacramonte is riddled with caves, many older than anyone even remembers. spanish gypsies have lived here in caves turned homes like this for hundreds of years. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> they call this an jeurga, an informal, intimate and spontaneous performance. what jazz musicians might recognize as a jam session. >> granada. the only place in the world where you get to see real flamenco in a cave. >> alissia is an aficionado. our host is a poet, historian, and a patriarch of the community here. an icon of the flamenco world. you see travelers, roma peo

we don't allow them to wear big medallions.ecified which sports team hats we wouldn't allow in. certain halts represent certain gangs in stockton. and we did colors. somebody comes in all red or all blue or a certain color, we know they're affiliated with a gang. >> what about green? green is all right? >> green is the only color we allow someone to come head to toe. >> setting an example in stockton, that's what police say one neighborhood watch group is doing. >> taking matters now into their own hands. that's what neighborhood groups in stockton did today. >> with violent crime up and fewer officers around to prevent it, stocktonians have been quietly organizing into community watch groups, determined to fix the problems themselves. marci waller is a founding member of a local neighborhood watch group in the area where stockton's murder record was recently broken. >> the best thing now is to continue to encourage stocktonians to neighbor up and join or start a neighborhood watch. be aware and take action when something suspi

. >> you and i come out in medallions. >> now, are you an angler? areare you a fisherman?throw that line out there once in a while. >> i have been known to work an angle, of course. >> putin and miller and i are big putin fans. >> yeah. >> apparently putin went to siberia and caught a pike that weighs 46 pounds. >> billy, the monitor is partially obscured here. did you just put up another anthony weiner photo. >> there was no time for small thoughts. >> that was putin. >> just scared the living hell out of me. i thought this is getting really weird. that's beyond limit. you can't keep that. >>. no. >> so he got it but here's the controversy. fishermen tell me putin is fudging it here. >> yeah. well, i love putin because he wears camo out on the lake and waders when he is inside the forest. i don't know what the hell that is about. is he the most interesting man in the world. >> stay thirsty my friends. >> put on the shirt after he caught the fish. >> that is a solid cup. >> do you want me to wear a bra? >> no, no. a bra is for ladies. meet the bro. >> and the problem is is

when you go on the home page, there's a little -- >> the little -- >> the little medallion on left, click on that, and you can enter some very simple information about yourself and see all of the plans available to you. >> without putting financial data, stuff in you may not want to. >> no financial data. it won't calculate whether or not you have a subsidy coming to you, but it will show you the plans available to you in your area with the premium for a person your age. you can even looking at the provider networks and drug lists, which is hugely important to people. it's terrific. i tried it. it was working yesterday through the busiest times smoop you tried it at noon. >> midafternoon at its peak. >> you have to have all this data and information. one of the things i understood in our preinterview with you, you said if you had tried to sign up in october, that you guys believe, you know what, just scrap it. start all over. don't assume they know anything. >> yeah. some funky stuff was going on with creating an account. >> if you created an account in october, you're advising people, tr

the only exception is here in new york where the medallions are owned by single figures, 8 or 900 ofdon't get the trained taxi drivers. we have a mayor who might attempt to destroy the business was the quote when he left office. we will see. >> and by the way in new york city also there's an app for hailing yellow cabs. so you know, there's something for everybody out there. >> that's very true. >> new york city mayor incoming mayor bill de blasio saying the horse drawn carriage in this industry is over. he's vowing to outlaw the carriage rides as soon as he takes office. i think these stink literally. you walk in central park, you smell the horse. it's a smell you don't want to be confronted with when taking a nice stroll through the park. i'm sorry. >> they smell because they're horses and they're working and that's what animals are like. i mean, i just think the people get what the people want. de blasio in with a landslide victory. his lot says it's not humane for them to be working. bloomberg said they work like everything else works in new york city. i don't know. this is the b

. -- regulator brooklyn saying a taxicab medallion is $1.3 million and uber is cleaning :00 .akes decisions about government intrusion into these new -- >> sharing economy. something theyd will pay some kind of hotel-like taxes. >> these companies are building a business, smart people and they have to figure out how to relate in the economy. you cannot underestimate the power of the existing economy and all of the money and influence that is in that. i think that keeping as much as technology,the giving it the ability to reshape the economy, before government gets involved. with us.orthwick let's rip up the script. it has to do with the disruption. tim adams is with us. --is with the iif, international -- institute for international financial bankers. he is also a reader. a wonderful book on jeff bezos. let's get a book review. what did you learn? >> everything he has touched, he changed. publishing, ife- you get into financial services space it is certainly worrying because if regulators turn banks into utilities, if that is the case, it pushes innovation invest somewhere els

a medallion featuring the eccles building where we are gathered here today as well as a certificate and the signing page. the certificate reads as follows. and commemoracommemora tion of the 100th anniversary of the federal reserve act introduced into congress by senator robert owen and represented carter glass and signed into law by president woodrow wilson on december 23, 1913 through the federal reserve act established the federal reserve as the nation's central bank for gathering on the 16th day of december 2013 at the board of governors of the federal reserve system in the city of washington and the district of columbia is in the district of columbia denied states of america we the undersigned commemorate the founding of the federal reserve by the u.s. congress. we acknowledge the service of the federal reserve system employees over the 100 year history and we express our gratitude for their efforts to support the founders intent to provide her nation with a safer more flexible and more stable monetary and financial system. in support of our centennial mission we encourage staff to

include facsimiles of the first page and the final signature page of the federal reserve act, a medallion featuring the eckings building where we are gathered here today as well as the certificate and the signing page. the certificate reads as follows: in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the federal reserve act introduced into congress by senator robert owen and representative carter glass and signed into law by president woodrow wilson on december 23, 1913. the federal reserve act established the federal reserve as our nation's central bank. gathering on this 16th day of december, 2013, at the board of governors of the federal reserve system in the city of washington in the district of columbus be -- the district of columbia, united states of of america, we, the undersigned, commemorate the founding of the federal reserve by the u.s. congress. we acknowledge the service of the federal reserve system employees over the institution's 100-year history, and we express our gratitude for their efforts to support the founders' intent to provide our nation with a safer, more flexible an

national iranian american council and author of two books, "treacherous alliance," which won the silver medallion from the n foreman mutations, and "a single roll of the dice," which was selected by foreign affairs as the best book of 2012 on the .iddle east our moderator is a washington correspondent and a senior fellow at the atlantic council, where she focuses on iran. she is a regular commentator on u.s. foreign policy and iran. she is the author of the 2007 book "bitter friends, bosom enemies." ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our panel. [applause] thank you very much. thank you for coming out on a cold and nasty night, but i think the news of this past weekend is sufficient enough to pique everyone's interest. i guess you will have to do another book called "another roll of the dice" or "several roles of the dice." last marcha report that made a number of recommendations, and i'm very pleased to say it appears that people were listening. if you go back and look at that report, you will see that the agreement that was reached and some of the other measures that were part of