. >> in terms of te deployment, yu don't have exact numbers, but i believe 600 t 1600 to 2,000 scoa day, reaching a company from 625 to 1250 in late august or early september and there was a considerable increase since then. and one thing that we found through the pilot was certainly a lot of the initially deployed scooters disappeared quickly and in addition to sidewalk blocking, they have been great for operators in terms of maintaining their fleet and so, we're expecting and hoping to have a much more consistent deployment than we saw through the first few months of the pilot. >> well, i'm supportive of it and i know there's a lot of questions and we don't want to see them on the sidewalks and we want to keep everybody safe. but i think we're doing good work on this and i think we might be one of the cities that actually does enough upfront work that we can have these out there as an option. so good work on that. >> so one permit and one non-permit, bringing up the issue of notice the companies with respect to hiring. can you just address that but i think in fairness to the companies