nobody is complaining about filling out waybills. as far as the medallion sales program, it is a scam. it is ripping off our colleagues on the list. the most vulnerable people in the business, who have dedicated their lives to driving a cab and they can't get home medallions because they are being sold out from under them. >> good afternoon. , i understand it all really know our industry. we are very low income people. ladies gentlemen, i invite you to come and drive a cab. you will understand the problems. they do so much. >> i drive a yellow cab. i support everything that my colleagues said before, so i don't want to waste your time. but instead of robbing us more and more, you guys take care of the illegal drivers stealing every fare from us, and those things. and if you believe our customers like electronic waybill, you are mistaken. i asked to many customers if elected the tract, it will be the name and the road. if there is anything you say now, the 5% will go to our customers. sooner or later, they will like it, too. >> i am e

an ongoing to try to confine this to waybills. i always heard waybills were from the police so if you pick up somebody, you have a record of it. now, it is biometrics. its following your around all the time and makes me nervous and combined with the rest of the changes in that industry, it is kind of oppressive. for 10 years, we had the taxi commission and one well-known politician said it was the best entertainment on television, but i found it embarrassing many times. i would like to go back to honorably driving a cab and not being followed around or worry about whether embarking hard enough or -- i left yellow in 1980 something because they brought in computers and i did not want to sit there and have to operate or text on a computer. i'm not sure is legal. now, all of this stuff is in the car and there's more and more and every day of something new. i think it's time to take a break and stop this stuff and step back and look at for six months and think about what you are doing. thank you. >> [reading names] >> i'm a cabdriver

please do something about those electronic waybills. thank you. >> some -- i should make it clear that the president put the -- [unintelligible] second, i love her more than my sister, she is intelligent and hard working and anyone should be policed to have these entities, but there are these issues -- we understand the only resources you can tap into for the cabdrivers for the-imbalance you have. i don't understand how can anybody claim electronic waybill is useful for statistics and improving the service while it is going to cost a lot more to put these devices inside the cab to gather statistics. the cab drivers can provide you with the statistics you need to verify the billowed -- the dollar ended -- you can just have a random poll to see if it is valued. i heard claims these a electronic waybills are going to be safe. i don't know how anybody can claim such a thing. in the history of mankind, and has been proving that man is not perfect and the pentagon could not provide personal information and the largest cab industries, the micr

electron of waybills could be useful to improve efficiency. of the question i and many other drivers have, what else will they be used for? if their purpose is also the track our meters, you're opening a very different can of worms because there many reasons why the meter does not accurately reflect the and come. if you have accepted a fair over the radio, you forget to turn it off after less fair. you may give a fair way, even. we're very concerned that your purpose here is to make available these waybills to the irs to they can squeeze cabdrivers to pay a federal that caused by rich criminal banks. every day we see the poor being squeezed to pay the debts of the rich. we just gave twitter six years of free rent. >> i am sorry, i am her diabetic and i am shaking a little bit. at this point, i of this year to said that we are condemning an electronic waybills and the attack on cabdrivers. this should not be passed this type of the bill. it is a violation of national riots. in the city should not pass this type of nonsense. and also, nobody is

our electronic waybill is not to be sold. the health matter, we have to look after the health batter. we don't know is the devices -- we want to understand everything before we install. the meter increase is very important right now because the economy and the market level and enterprise level which has gone up so high, i hope we can come to a conclusion. thank you. [applause] >> i've been 25 years as a cabdriver and medallion holder. she has said there are some fundamental problems that need to be addressed and the agency and i think the number one fundamental problem that needs to be addressed is that the fundamental relationship is one that can best be described as cannibalism. [applause] 5 please don't clap until the end. the mta has made a very clear the views the cab industry primarily and only as a source of funding. their relationship is cannibalism. since february, which had three health crisis is a including heart attacks. we in the cab industry have no benefits of any kind. what we do, as we pass that. i pulled out

[tone] >> i would like to speak about the electronic waybills. when we pick up the customer and we are just dropping the customer, we need a ride and the passenger coming in the cab says he is not giving the time to write down the way bills. he just asks us to go and we cannot write exactly how much the fare is and how much he gives for the tip. we have -- we are already examined by the way bills and everything we have, so wheel we are already -- though waybills are scanned and we are the same way, we are scanned by the way bills, but with how is it to maintain the waybills -- we try to keep it but it is very stressful -- you are keeping each and every for their exactly as it is. the taxicab industry is big and i think we will lose good drivers, pushing the drivers like this, so please consider this matter. i am driving for eight years and there are senior drivers and there are younger drivers and the coming into the industry to drive, so please make a note of that. thank you very much for giving him the time. [tone] >> mr. chairman, seeing no on

i heard claims these a electronic waybills are going to be safe. i don't know how anybody can claim such a thing. in the history of mankind, and has been proving that man is not perfect and the pentagon could not provide personal information and the largest cab industries, the microsoft could not provided. they just recently found they have said their vulnerability and it cannot be protected. [tone] [applause] >> thank you. i am a cabdriver. one time, the homeless guy so drunk -- digest stop by the red light and he was so drunk he spit on my windshield. i a just can't do anything because i'm just a cabdriver. maybe he beat me or maybe he broke my window and i can do nothing. we're not challenging any rule or regulation, you are powerful and the budget people are making big decisions. but sometimes we come here to ask you, planes of people getting into it taxi is a like to be in the taxi exclusively and privately. most of the taxi rider's have an iphone. i just took the muni to come here. maybe they could put a good size television and they are happ

i want to address the electronic waybills. the government mandating waybills is highly anecdotal and now that the city is moving toward transitioning into electronic formats, i think the city should issue a formal policy statement and policy disclosure to the industry and general public, stating specifically what the purpose is, using -- why the city wants to gather this data and where it is going to wind up. i think the city has an obligation to state that it lay a policy statement and the policy disclosure to insure accountability is, so that unwarranted third parties don't get access to private information, like marketers and advertisers. i would think this kind of information would be subject to federal government agencies like the department of homeland security and water that would have an effect on the some of the large population of middle eastern drivers in our industry, whether or not they would be tracked with the electronic tracking technology just for being, for example, muslim here. thank you very much. [applause

also, i am opposed on the electronic waybills. these are my to objections -- mike two objections. -- my two objections. >> dominic. i have been 30 years in the service of some francisco. a request one thing. whenever you have an agenda for the taxi industry, it should at least be on the bulletin board of the companies and at the airport, so everybody knows about it, not only the company. the drivers should be informed. it has to be a big letter, not a tiny letter, where it is visible. we have bulletin boards at the airport and at the companies. before you set up a meeting, i request you that you put it in bold letters so that all the parties involved will know about it. i recommend you guys that we would really appreciate that. you are very informative and everything like that. we are trying to improve the industry. everybody is trying to do a good job. thank you. >> mohammed eddinae, jimmy mankind. >> good afternoon, everybody. i am here today for the credit card thing. i don't think it is right. i do not think anybody should com

no electronic waybills. i am paying $15 an hour to be here. i do not know if mta is going to pay for me or i have to pay for myself. the other thing is the 5% charge. then the company can pay me to% to send the money to my account. -- can pay me 2% to send money to my account. >> stephen gebshrel, ali gashan, ang ho. >> i am a taxi driver for five years. electronic waybills -- systems go down. credit card systems go down. there will be no taxes service. that system could go down for days. nobody has mentioned it. why do you have to track everything we do? that is all i have to say. i will do what everybody else tries to have me do. >> pilar tileg, aieli gashan, mohammad offshart, eng ho. >> my name is padavid pasada. my comment is this. this is capitalism at its worst. look at the faces of the people who have spoken here. can you imagine if they say to their homeland that capitalism is not being practiced by san francisco? they come from all over the continent of africa, the middle east, india, south america. these people will cry out to their

medallions -- waybills and peak period medallions. we have also heard some concerns that we need to get some experts to come and advise us. we are requesting the firm date be removed director heinicke: what is -- be removed. director heinicke: what is the firm date currently? >> july 21. but what we need the extra time to do -- director heinicke: i have no dispute about the extra time. i just wonder whether we should continue it now or continue it later. >> it is my understanding the only item which can talk about or consider is the taximeter fare increase or wait time or traffic delay. i want to ask my fellow directors -- we can either approve the item today or wait for staff to come back with a motion to approve the drug trade. what is your general feeling? director oka: first of all, thank you, mr. chairman. i have heard from almost every member of the taxi industry over the last less than a week, and everybody -- i have heard all your voices. believe me, this is going to be good when we finally put it to work. i am ready to vote o

i am here for the electronic waybill. of you can do something about it. thank you for your time. >> have a yellow cab driver. i wanted to say that all texas drivers are independent contractors. that means it is like any other grocery stores, convenience store. we are no different. if you do not require other stores to have electronic waybills, why should we be forced to have any kind of the electronic devices to collect all the data? if you can get credit card processing for a 1.5 or 2%, why should we pay 5%? i drove for almost 16 years. the first thing, of 5% a charge for credit cards is not acceptable. it will be 1.5 or 1.57. another comment is about security. i heard about sunday attacked by the hackers. who will provide this protection for cabdrivers? you have to give this information for our family. >> i spoke to you a month ago. nothing has changed and i am back. i like to read a quote here. i am told that this came from chris, she is referring to the perception of 7 cisco cabdriver's that they're rude, untrained, and how to operate their own paymen

medallions -- waybills and peak period medallions. we have also heard some concerns that we need to get some experts to come and advise us. we are requesting the firm date be removed director heinicke: what is -- be removed. director heinicke: what is the firm date currently? >> july 21. but what we need the extra time to do -- director heinicke: i have no dispute about the extra time. i just wonder whether we should

one thing about electronic waybill is that if the store and formation, it is our privacy in our rights. i believe they don't want any of these and any private company's database. we don't need tracking devices in our vehicles. [applause] bernanke. -- good afternoon. >> i look at your faces and it seems like you guys don't care what is going on over here. if you guys get in my cab, i will surge to 5%. we will pass the costs to you guys. the city might turn just a fee. why can the city charged the administration fees? we cannot charge our customers. >> i think you're going to need more than two town hall meetings. operating out here is of very good way to make policy. things have to be discussed over a long time to find some sort of solution. green cat doesn't have to pay. why does everyone else have to? why can't yellow also do it? i would like to point out that yellow and the other cab companies are already illegally charging their drivers. they should not be able to charge other 5% of top of that. blessing the letter crowded was out of context. she was not saying it was her opinion of

electronic waybills. >> good afternoon.

clarification an we handled waybills. >> i hear everything you're saying, vice chairman lee, and i, you know, the industry knows how i feel. they know i'm going to favor the meter increase. i think it's appropriate procedurally to do this all at once for the very reasons you stated at the outset of the discussion. >> so the motion is to continue item 11 to the second meeting in june, ke the june 21 meeting, to consider peak time medallions, flag drop increase, the meter increase and mileage for wait times and credit card charges. is that -- >> yes. so it's a motion to postpone. >> yes. >> and for the last time. >> is there a second? >> do you want a roll call vote? director bridges. >> aye. >> brinkman. brinkman aye. director lee, no. director oka. no. oka opposed. the item fails adoption. any motion of the m.t.a. board of directors requires four to pass. >> i want to propose a motion to approve the increases as stated. >> i'll second. >> so, mr. chairman -- >> are the city attorneys comfortable? of course she is. >> mr. chairman, just for clarification, on motion to approve the meter r