are carving into the market so much and address that not to hurt the tnc's but to help the industry and therefore help our owners and drivers and that sort of thing so those are my questions which i realize border on advocacy a little bit but that's what i would like to hear about i realize you i realize you and i are meeting and this is happening before the meeting and i understand you are just stepping into this and given that we're having a public discussion i wanted to air that. >> thank you. he said a lot of the questions i had but i have a few more. you mentioned you have eliminated 2.5 million in fees are they all cost recovery related or profit related to the agency. >> i'm glad i printed out my handy dandy little sheet here so for new drivers we eliminated the driver application fees and that was about 130 thousand, for the medallion holders we reduced the renewal fee and eliminated a metal plate fee so about 106 or 107 thousand. the color scheme renewal was waived, and that was 120 thousand approximately reduction in the 8000 series use fees that has a total about 2.4 mill

if our side prevails in this argument and it's ruled that there was a mistake in it, as well as the tnc's are using these ap calls it would then be under your jurisdiction and i can see we could craft as an industry some kind of hybrid policy to determine the conditions and rules and limitations such as no price gouging for example and possibly these vehicles would sort of be a big time augmentation because there's times when we can't get to all the calls thank you. >> i'm barry corn gold with the san francisco taxi worker's a alliance and i am really appalled that you know, you guys are still collecting fees you know making us follow any kind of any kind of rules or requirements when you just let people buy a pink mustache do the exact exact another thing is i thing there's a lot of people in the city do try to find the cab first if they can find it but the other thing is there's not enough taxi stands so the cabs can park there and people can't find a cab because there's there's no cab so that's why there's no connection you need to make more taxi stands all over city where the cabs can

how much people do right the tnc and taxis especially from the disability community. they claim that they are serving the disability community, but i don't think so. i have not seen one in my neighborhood. i less invasive -- live in the disability community neighborhood and i have not seen one picked up. to me this report that's coming out i think is really kind of bogus and i was there and you heard that. i do request that the mdc actually form a committee to look into this further and then write a letter to the c puc that says our finding is different from what they did. it's very important. we are all representing the disability community. we need to have clarification on those, thank you. >> thank you. do i have anymore public comment? all right. is there anyone on the bridge line? okay. thank you, everyone. we'll move on to the next agenda item which is the better mark street transit priority plan. i have simon from dpw and sf mta. >> simon. i'm going to give the first presentation and then i will turn it to my colleague from sf mta. so, >> could the control room

should be thinking of looking at that through a survey or outreach to make sure we understand why the tnc's are carving into the

bit of optimism about the current situation it's good to hear that i think some of you said these tnc's are here to stay and there's sort of two fronts going on and you are pushed back against them and one is this effort towards regulatory alignment and that's going on and as mr. gruberg said a lot of that is out of our hands and a lot of it is competitive alignment and let me start with a mandate that all -- i didn't mean to force you to take responsibility for this i was one of the proponents i thought that the private ap sector could fill the void and seems that they have come close and i'd like now to have a regulation coming from this board board to the industry soon before my kids dress up for for halloween if possible, that mandates that all cabs be ap enabled and on an ap that services a very large number i'll let the regulators pick the number, of cabs and basic follow up which should be fees should be feasible electronically that people are actually using them and not a phantom sign up and making sure all of our in coming drivers know how to use these aps and fully understand

the fact is that not only are tnc ruizing -- reducing the demand for taxis but robbing the drivers who can operate the vehicles with wheelchair lifts. they are being attacked on both ends. i just wanted to make that comment. you don't have to respond. i would like to move to staff. >> this is jonah from the mayor's office on disability. you talked about the success of your model for people with certain disabilities. do you have any statistics or numbers of percentage of deaf drivers versus folks with some other disabilities, do you keep track of those numbers? >> that is information i would love to have. under the new changes to our app we will be able to start collecting data on people who check that profile option. well submit data to that to the c puc finally which will happen this week and subsequently all the data regarding any elements of our product that are specifically inviting action from the user. we send a text message. >> i'm sorry, i think you misunderstood my question. let me try again. you talked about having a large number of deaf drivers who work with the lyft platfor

tnc says that americorps taught her, that i collected my country and actually make it different, notroduce she had recently left her job and a law firm and became the founding executive director of public allies in chicago, nonprofit that trains young people for careers in public service and soon after public allies receive one of the very first grants that americorps ever awarded, and that the young woman happens to live with me. her name is michelle obama. so the obama household was on board with americorps from the start. [applause] and for those of you know why story starting off as a community organizer, i would not be standing here if it were not for service to others. and the purpose that service gave to my own life. i moved to chicago to become a community organizer in part to of that time when steel plants have closed down and hope had tried upper. and i was not sure what i was doing. i was not sure if i would be successful. i was working with a group of churches out there did not have a lot of funding. i think my starting salary was $13,000 a year and gas expenses. but what

continue until we hear from yellen and company, joining us now, jim dunnigan, chief investment officer at tnc wealth management which has $130 billion in assets under management and paul schatz, president of heritage capital. and we still do -- >> are coming together in support of -- >> oh, that's interesting. >> i think we're hearing somebody else. >> yeah. we had -- >> is somebody from capitol hill. >> they're coming together to support something. i don't know. that doesn't sound -- sounds look it might have been a blast from the past. i don't think they're supporting anything recently. anyway, jim, we saw with the jobs number that the fed still matters. it was a weak jobs number, the market traited up based on traders still want a -- you know, the rates to come later rather than sooner. do you think we're going to hear today that they were moved considerable and will that make the markets a little bit cautious? >> i think we will, joe. we'll get a current assessment of what the fed thinks and new projections on both growth rates and interest rates going into 2017. so most market participan

. >> the tnc supported our freedom sunday effort. we hit almost 3,000 churches last sunday to talk about getting out the vote. i figured it is just important that you have to make people do what is right sometimes. we expect them to do what is right, but we expect them to take care of us because we were worth something, have some value. but sometimes you have to make them do. and now we are making them do it. >> yes. >> because if they don't, then they lose. i tell you what, my life will not change a lot personally, but what will change as my neighbors and their kids are when they cannot keep a roof over their head. we are saying to the democratic party, all houses of the democratic party, you better pay attention to us because if you don't, everybody loses. if we win, everybody wins. if we lose, everybody loses when black folks don't vote. [applause] >> yes. thank you. and at this time we are going to shift gears a little bit, and i want to talk about what is on a lot of people's minds and the last 24 hours people were in the street