a decision by the mta board with regard to the criteria for a set of permits that the number of permentds, how they would be issued. it's a policy decision of the board that is part of an interrelated set of policy decisions and not just about taxis but the rest of the transportation system, and furtherance of the transit first policy which was put into the chapter with the passage of those propositions so the ability of the board and the necessity of the mta board to be able to make policy level decisions for the entire transportation system that understand and reflect all of the different parts of the system, traffic, taxis, transit, bicycles is really core, and i think fundamental to what the voters intended and mandated with the passage of those two propositions so to the extent that individual policy decisions of that board, particularly for one segment of what our realm of responsibility is are subject to being dismissed compromises the mandate i believe the voters gave to the sf mta to manage the entire transportation system of the city. individual permit decisions is not what we'r