you are judging by reading mr. -- or director's heinicke mail. you had the plan you put into effect two weeks ago. you had it without ever discussing it with the person you put it together behind closed doors and i believe in violation of the sunshine ordinance. i believe that you violated your own rules. you violated the rules of the city and you violated the rules of state of california in order do what? you don't even know what you are doing. you are so full of sanctimonious language, like what is that? the public good? that you are not even paying attention to the details of what you are doing. details of what you are doing is basically putting a couple hundred people into poverty, if they don't get those medallions. they are too old to do anything else. that is the one concrete you are doing and it's the public. the public. the public good. that is fine with me. i would like to see you return to actual transparency. in the meantime, it looks like ned ford has never left. thank you very much. next speaker. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> mark

mr. heinicke as the om ones participating in what creates taxi issues. i have seen nothing yet from what you guys have done or participated in. you need to come to town hall meets and need more input and honest debate and honest discourse what is going on. in closing, an email from tom nolan, many of the tax recommendaces were incorporated into the staff recommendations over the past few years. few years the taxes only existed two years. less than two years. i know that some may feel that the work was i ignored. please know that the board and staff appreciated and benefited by the work. thank you, mr. paul ryan. thank you. >> next speaker. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> mr. lawrence. >> ladies and gentlemen of audience and commissioners, thank you for letting me speak once again. very briefly, i would like to bring up an issue that i think one of the -- i'm not sure which one of you brought it up. but anyway, the issue of sharing a cab, like in washington, d.c.. i picked up a man from washington, d.c. last week and he said since january they recognized

mr. [hao*-efrpg/] knows all and heinicke knows all about that. the report you cannot find online anymore. it's deleted but mr. heinicke said in '07 he was willing to pay extra for services in the sunset, where he lives. he knew that dispatch issue couldn't be addressed then in '07. it hadn't been addressed since '07, since 1998. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> that is the last person who submitted a card for this section of your agenda. >> then no. 8. >> item 8, citizen its' advisory council report and i do not see mr. murphy here. no. 9, public comment. >> members of the board, probably most people here this afternoon for the taxi item and i was wondering if we could move to that and come back to the public comment afterwards. >> agreed. >> all right. so que with call that. >> moving to item 11, authorizing the director to issue 150 to 200 tetchry full-time medallions for a limited period of time to be leased to certain color [skhrao-epl/]s based sleeps based on objective criteria. >> i think the issue is somewhat straightforward. w

mr. heinicke has pushed for this direction for a long, long time and i'm sorry that all of you are being pressured into making what is a horrible, horrible choice [ applause ] . >> thank you. next speaker. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, sir. i'm a cab driver and drive for national veteran cab and this is my first time being here in the meeting. i have been driving since 1985 on and off. and i have been an outstanding driver. i was once awarded one of the best cab drivers and poster person for the cab industry to the newspaper. i'm on the list and i have been following what is going on with the industry the past five years. i don't like it. the industry needs changes. we need more cabs. that is true. when i studied in 1985, i thought there was going to be a day like this to come. that is why i didn't put my name in the first place. so when i saw some of my co-workers that we started to together and put their names and got their medallions. now it comes to the time that i am on the list and can't get a medallion. i have been working here since 1985

mr. malcolm heinicke was going to raise the price back to $200,000. why is he dictating this industry?why 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 d