let's just say that tomorrow, sonali has to move out of the country for personal reasons and we have to hire a new cfo. we're on the verge of issuing debt, and we're going to tell the we're the only entity in the ã9qj? arçqd with an insurance policy? i think that would hurt us in the employee markets. we just hired director reiskin. he took less money than his predecessor. he has come on and shown a willingness to do this out of the goodness of his heart at a lot of levels, and to be a very active person right at the beginning, but we're going to tell him, just as he comes on, we will start issuing debt, and he will not be insured for it? i think that is why i disagree. i think this is more about just hedging bets. i think this is about protecting and value -- protecting and valuing our staff. director nolan: any other members have thought at this point? >> i would echo director heinicke's comments. i think it is only fair to ask staff and directors to have this insurance, and i think protecting them for the job they do for us every day that we should appreciate them and for the insu

one of the things we were looking at was a follow-up survey back sonali mentioned. information about taxicab drivers and the way of finding information. however, more data and customer perception on the volume, the ease of use, and just in general the alternative devices, more data is necessary. director: can i interrupt with a question? i understand that sometimes more data is needed, but other cities have done this. have other cities studied this, as san francisco is >> there was a new york survey of customers of the things they liked most about taxis and the thi like abd the number two on the dislike less was the, quote, annoying television monitors. director: until they learned how to use the new button. >> can we get that back? positive comments we heard from san francisco drivers. they would like to see more hard data as to whether or not it does increase tips. compromising safety. what if you have to hear the same thing 20 times in your office? there is a delay or responding to the next trip. if the system is down, you have to use a knuckle busting imprint ma

supervisor campos: i want to welcome sonali bose. let me just say that ed reiskin, the director of transportation for the city and county of san francisco, was going to be here and was planning to be here, but unfortunately, he had a last-minute family emergency. i want to acknowledge that and wish him well. i know that he will continue to work with us on these issues. it is for that reason that he is not here. >> thank you, supervisors appear the director wanted to make sure we apologize on his behalf -- thank you, supervisors. the director wanted to make sure that we apologize on his behalf. this is the overall picture of our budget for fiscal year 2012. we have a $780 million budget. $68 million goes to services, and $62 million -- supervisor campos: do you have any other copies of the presentation? that is okay. we will see it on the screen. >> i think copies were sent to your offices. we have five different kinds of work orders, and there has been difficulty understanding them because they are different kinds of work orders. fir

we struggle with the precise guidance, but i do think that if you conduct be said oversight, have sonali throughout how rigorous process is -- if you conduct decent oversight, understanding foundational questions, and with respect to red flags, if you get a briefing on a significant issue, it is in the bond approval process. where did you folks describe that and outlined that? it is a red flag type of issue? the other thing is -- are there things that we may not know about as staff that you know about as board members that you should bring to our attention? that is the other area that you are solely responsible for, those things that you might have gotten a briefing on that, quite frankly, we would not know about. with that, i think i would

we struggle with the precise guidance, but i do think that if you conduct be said oversight, have sonali throughout how rigorous process is -- if you conduct decent oversight, understanding foundational questions, and with respect to red flags, if you get a briefing on a significant issue, it is in the bond approval process. where did you folks describe that and outlined that? it is a red flag type of issue? the other thing is -- are there things that we may not know about as staff that you know about as board members that you should bring to our attention? that is the other area that you are solely responsible for, those things that you might have gotten a briefing on that, quite frankly, we would not know about. with that, i think i would end the context, primary offerings, secondary market disclosure which your board will probably not touch on -- as a policy matter, you could, but i would not advise it -- and then communications likely to reach investors. that is statements by you about the m.t.a.'s financial position you need to take some care with. with that, we will close, and shou

weighing in statements that are being made by both the united states and israel all we see and iraqi sonali are in relation to the rand when it's almost a pre-war before the actual war look i agree with you that the same store guns but iraq iran is not iraq iran is much much stronger military and they have many many cards to play i think the americans do that very well they want to pressure these countries. the edge of the tea with playing that kind of game going as far as possible threatening of invasion in order. to have more kids concessions by iran i doubt whether this policy will succeed because the americans are very very well known in the region there is no credibility for the americans american interest now is the care they want is they do anything. country in the end they want israel is the only nuclear power in the region is the military america b.s. and they have now the americans i saw fond of establishing bases that egypt almost only few countries in the region don't have american military base including turkey which is a very very big country of seventy million the biggest one

and the sonali reports that moment in russia happened twenty years ago. daugherty our dear skya. u.s. senator john mccain tweets dear vlad the arab spring coming to a neighborhood near you but is it seems russia's so-called slavic spring came and went twenty years ago. mccain and hillary clinton really would like this to happen and you see it and they were relations to other countries where these revolutions benefit the u.s. and of course they have pushing for this but don't think it will happen there were talk me or my protests during the collapse of the soviet union hundreds of thousands were out on the streets people who actually saw. all as and b.'s and they will want to get that. most of the few thousand out on the streets of moscow after these elections move gone off to either not remember or be i'm able to compare some of this though it is funny how it worked out the middle class that exists today does so because of the politics of this government if they rebuilt the country four years ago there was a much smaller middle class if any. a middle class egyptians really dream