The people we talked to when we mentions the free muni for seniors it is an uplifting thing so i urge you to do like wise thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon mark you want to mention that occasions like this are role terrific if a number of ways and everybody realize in addition to the issues this kind of meeting serves as a laboratory in democracy and i think thats great. I hope youll listen to their message and hed it well. I want to talk on behalf of green cab. I find it mreth that ive been initiating to find a breakdown on any of the revenues and expenses for the mta for the next two years other than the figures in the official were only a few weeks away from an approval of the budget this should be made available to the public. The issue i want to talk about specifically has to do with a particular fee the color scheme is paid to renew their license we pay 43 thousand pollutes for our cabs we have 18 and a case with over 5 hundred cabs t
So i urge you to do like wise thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon mark you want to mention that occasions like this are role terrific if a number of ways and everybody realize in addition to the issues this kind of meeting serves as a laboratory in democracy and i think thats great. I hope youll listen to their message and hed it well. I want to talk on behalf of green cab. I find it mreth that ive been initiating to find a breakdown on any of the revenues and expenses for the mta for the next two years other than the figures in the official were only a few weeks away from an approval of the budget this should be made available to the public. The issue i want to talk about specifically has to do with a particular fee the color scheme is paid to renew their license we pay 43 thousand pollutes for our cabs we have 18 and a case with over 5 hundred cabs they pay a little bit less than twice we pay we pay 250 they pay 17 they have thirty times th
Realize in addition to the issues this kind of meeting serves as a laboratory in democracy and i think thats great. I hope youll listen to their message and hed it well. I want to talk on behalf of green cab. I find it mreth that ive been initiating to find a breakdown on any of the revenues and expenses for the mta for the next two years other than the figures in the official were only a few weeks away from an approval of the budget this should be made available to the public. The issue i want to talk about specifically has to do with a particular fee the color scheme is paid to renew their license we pay 43 thousand pollutes for our cabs we have 18 and a case with over 5 hundred cabs they pay a little bit less than twice we pay we pay 250 they pay 17 they have thirty times the numbers of cabs that we do and we are paying 15 times more than they on a per cab basis. This is unfair thank you. Next speaker, please. And calling names peter cowen the last person. I get the final word. Good
Swath of folks there are a lot of of them we should address the ability to pay that way or at least study it as opposed to dividing up the city San Francisco different categories. Finally on the taxi thing. The gentleman made his point eloquently i am not sure we want a did i incentive to the color scheme without assessing the whole group it makes them more assessable but i guess my view is that barry zip it, dude you do this a lot and it gets old. My preference would be from a procedural standpoint we look at this after a policy hearing after the taxi regulators instead of a strictly budget item director lee. Okay first, i want to thank everyone forgive their presentations. Thats an emotional issue im in favor of 18yearold we still a a fiscal responsibility we need to get a status in terms of our budget where we stand. I will repeat would everyone is saying exercise with caution. The other two issues i have i really building that part of our problem with the sunday spike in meter siet
Generation for all the growth in San Francisco particularly to the esdz of San Francisco where the t line runs were happy to be here. A big project didnt happen overnight it takes years and in this case decades of hard work and vision it takes leadership, it takes a lot of technical diligence and engineering and any member of the public wish to speak on this item and a lot of people too many to be able to thank today but know that a lot of people spent a lot of work trying to marking make this happen. I do want to acknowledge in particular our Funding Partners leslie from the Transit Administration and tilly chang in the transportation arthur i dont know if anyone is here from the metropolitan Transportation System but we have one representative here we have caltrain a lot of folks working to make that happen and particularly our federal senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and nancy pelosi has been a great champion of this project. We couldnt have done this without her. And i d