no. the income comes from the medallion. in fact if the color scheme were to be suspended the effect would be to relieve mr. hollis and executive taxi of some of the financial burdens of maintaining a color scheme business. however, the medallion is still say business and expected to be operated in accordance with the standards of the business, including insurance coverage and that is where all of -- of the revenue comes from. the only thing he would lose besides having to pay the permit for the color scheme is access to a spare vehicle. commissioner garcia: you can't be suggesting that he's in this for fun? there must be some income generated from having a color scheme. >> perhaps some of the other company owners would like to address that because they have. better expertise than i do but the income from a color scheme comes from the medical melds that are affiliated with it. commissioner garcia: he would get income from it if he were to place it with another company. >> that's correct. that's why the imposition of the susp

a moment to imagine that a driver operating this phony medallion was involved in a serious accident where there was personal injury. there are no valid insurances on a fake medallion. what happens then? the drafere has no protection or recourse. the drivers -- injured parties have no protection or recourse exempt mr. hollis who walks away, leaving the rest r.b.i. us cleaning up the mess as best we can. do we really want to send the message that the max fine for putting an illegal cab out on the street with month medallion is $400 if you're caught? i don't think so. viewed in this light the city's request that he be stripped of his medallion and color scheme in addition to having fines levied is entirely reasonable. my own reference is that mr. hollis would be fined $5,000 for failure to carry workers' comp and another $5,000 for intentionally using an illegal medallion. further he should be stripped of his color scheme and barred from using any color scheme in his game. he will still have his personal medallion. industry will had be -- the industry will be on notice that this board considers this a serious he fens and this boar

there is no way you can stop that person from getting the medallion. there are people who are business people. they have not even five minutes driving a taxi getting the medallions. you need to keep an eye on this department very strongly. thank you. >> if you have a card to give, that would be helpful. you can fill one out. is there anyone else would like to speak under this item? ok, thank you. seeing none, we move to commissioner comments and questions, item number two. >> i just want to put on the record that i will miss the hearing on the 11th because i will be out of town. >> thank you. any other commissioners? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, moving on to item 3, the adoption of minutes. before you for discussion and possible adoption of the minutes of the board meeting of june 30, 2010. president peterson: any corrections? i move to adopt the june 30, 2010 minutes. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, if you could call the roll, please? >> on that motion from president peterson to adopt th

no. the vote is four to one. the revocation of the color scheme is upheld. the revocation of the medallion is upheld for one year. president peterson: let us take a short break. president peterson: welcome back to the meeting of the board of appeals. we did not administer the oath early in the meeting. i will ask to do that again, since people may have come in since that was done. >> please stand if you were not sworn in at 5:00 and intend to testify in any further hearing. thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. president peterson: thank you. please call item no. 8. >> : item eight, appeal no. 10- 042, arza trust versus the department of building inspection. it is protesting the issuance to bille cayrot trustee, permit to alter a building. president peterson: if you would like to step forward. you have seven minutes. >> president peterson and commissioners, i and the trustee for arza trust. this balcony is about 5.5 feet from our property line, less than the 15 beat planni

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medallion. when i was 21 years old my father lost his job for the second time. there was nomoney to pay the rent. we were going to lose the house. there was no money for the food or anything else. and i went to work driving a cab. that's what happens in families. people do anything. terry said to the newspaper, she is sitting at home now. one of her interviews was for a company that would pay her $7.65 an hour. remember, she was making $14 before. they're paying less than half that and she's sitting there waiting to hear if she gets a job. she knows that the money she gets from that lesser job won't even meet her bills. won't make it possible for her to pay her house payment and pay her utilities and pay gas and pay the internet so she can stay on the computer and keep looking for a job. that's the dilemma that americans are sitting at home tonight living with. middle class people. it isn't people who haven't tried. it isn't people who haven't made an effort. it isn't people who somehow tried to get by on easy. they have been out there slogging along and they suddenly can't