on october 3, our very own assistant chief michael cochran received an award at the i.i.i. society for his service to the city and his many years in fire service, so congratulations to assistant deputy chief cochran. on the 4th of october, we attended the senior leadership seminar as part of fleet week. and let's see...later that night, i received an award on behalf of the san francisco fire department from the st. vincent de-paul society, which is a great organization, they do a lot of work around homelessness, poverty, and domestic violence, and many of us attended, and it was a good night, so thank you to everyone that supported me that night and for your work in the department. on the 5th, i was able to attend the fleet week parade of ships, and on the 7th, there was the italian heritage parade, which was a lot of fun. i know specifically, commissioner alioto veronese, you were out on hyde street, i believe, so thank you for coming out for that. october 8, there was, again, a meeting on healthy streets intervention with the police department. i participated by phone. dep

michael monroe, barry toronto. >> good afternoon. i'm greg cochran, flywell taxi. 22-year driving veteran and purchased medallion owner. i want to oppose all the measures because they're together. if we separated them, it may be easier to swallow. sfo is alarming. limiting the earning ability. cab drivers have to be able to pick up where they are. when you take out a piece, it's like a broken leg. limiting taxies' access, will make it impossible to -- there was a time that they were not going to go to the airport and it's chaos. it makes a cab company suffer. this business needs drivers to work together. i've never seen more togetherness when the other ride services came into san francisco. this proposal, this group of proposals, pit taxi drivers and medallion owners against each other. when you take a class of medallions and make them more valuable than the others, there's a current and undercurrent. i think that drivers would lose money on the extra they would pay and the medallions would be worthless. taxis have been barely surviving. we have to f