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Statistics this year we did 670 thousand more or less not a major drop but our business has has has been steady we get 120 thousand calls a month these days unfortunately 25 percent of the of the people that call us never see a cab in this day and age and to me thats an unacceptable rate and for various reasons people give us the wrong address decide to walk but 25 percent is is not we need carrots and sticks and need your help we can do it were trying to do it. Okay . Thank you. Thank you. Jim ...

Thats an unacceptable rate and for various reasons people give us the wrong address decide to walk but 25 percent is is not we need carrots and sticks and need your help we can do it were trying to do it. Okay . Thank you. Thank you. Jim margolis. Medallion holder with yellow cab since 1977. Just on levelling the Playing Field i know that were speaking about what we can do in the taxi industry about levelling the field for example with the credit cards and making drivers what we can do is have t...

Thank you for taking the job. I couldnt think of a better job to work with and interesting dynamic. Is that microphone on . Yes. That one is not. You will have to speak from one of the big ones. Sorry. Did you load the powerpoint . No. Okay. Do you have paper slides . This is my first presentation before the board. Im sure it will get better as we go on. Thank you. Its on the the my apologies i thought it was preloaded. Im learning as i go here. Absolutely. Im kate toran director of taxis and Ac...

No. Okay. Do you have paper slides . This is my first presentation before the board. Im sure it will get better as we go on. Thank you. Its on the the my apologies i thought it was preloaded. Im learning as i go here. Absolutely. Im kate toran director of taxis and Accessible Services and were the were the real crossroads here and were committed to what we do and how we do it. Our Mission Statement values are critically important to us and these are the lenses through which we do our work so thi...

Her in this capacity and hopefully she will cover all the issues you have been asking about and im sure well have good public, comment as well. Thank you for taking the job. I couldnt think of a better job to work with and interesting dynamic. Is that microphone on . Yes. That one is not. You will have to speak from one of the big ones. Sorry. Did you load the powerpoint . No. Okay. Do you have paper slides . This is my first presentation before the board. Im sure it will get better as we go on....

You okay . Dispatch. In august of last year, 2013, yellow cabs fleet did 672 2 thousand metered rides we have these statistics this year we did 670 thousand more or less not a major drop but our business has has has been steady we get 120 thousand calls a month these days unfortunately 25 percent of the of the people that call us never see a cab in this day and age and to me thats an unacceptable rate and for various reasons people give us the wrong address decide to walk but 25 percent is is no...

Committed to what we do and how we do it. Our Mission Statement values are critically code for the taxi medallion use important to us and these are fee through june of 2016. The lenses through which we do our work so this helps to keep thank you. Madam vice chair, as you us grounded. Accessible Services Also has a very strong heard 2 items one is kind of a Mission Statement and we are general update reflecting a number of requests weve gotten proud of the work we do in the from the board from th...

Could charge customers who are agreeable to it and we could advertise if you want to get to the opera on time and you are willing to give us an extra five or 10 bucks well make sure the drivers know about it and so in response to some of the questions i heard by Board Members credit cards if we have drivers on a monthly basis accept 4000 plus dollars from credit cards some drivers take zero and the reason is simple they are un informed and greedy and petty and short cited and its our job to make...

Senator grassley was a no. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] the clerk will report is the results of the vote. Mr. Chairman the final tally is six ayes eight nose. Mrs. Amendment number two and would simply do its a minor amendment would add my chair membership to transportation benefits. As you know the code allows employers to provide compensation for transportation costs for their employees on a taxfree basis. They include taxes who see it with parking en masse transit and since 2008 associ...

Said lets try to get to a level Playing Field and that is what u. N. Senator hatch have talked about and then to have comparable measures. Im going to work closely with you and i appreciate youre not offering it today. Senator nelson is back. I applaud the excellent work in the leadership of hatch and wyden and if you are from pennsylvania, utah, to West Virginia, you are underrepresented as we are in florida on the new markets tax credit. For example it serves the poor population encouraging in...