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John fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. Meteorologist mark tamayo is here now with the weather conditions. This morning the weather conditions helping them out with more moisture, but into the afternoon things heated up and as a result the fight more of a challenge. Live Storm Tracker 2 tracking the fog. This increased the humidity hast night into this last night into this morning and expecting the same tonight into tomorrow morning. Fire conditions around the fire zone warm out the. After the 12 00 p...

Were concerned about. General public drivers picking up street hails. Last week in the last few weeks there was a registered sex offender actually found to be trying to pick up a street hail so this is a real concern to us when private vehicles that are not clearly marked are providing services so we know the values of Good Customer Service and non discrimination. All customers are required to be served in the taxi industry, all neighborhoods are required to be served. We can do better on that. ...

Duplicated or kind of some aspects of supervisor wieners amendment will be accepted, but the one piece i wanted to ensure was on page 3, under the resolve of more stringent safety regulations, that when we talk about using background checks, we do it in a manner thats consistent with a fair chance ordinance that the board of supervisors passed earlier this year around background checks. Did want to note that while we only allow employers to do a seven year look back at your convictions, we do al...

Let me know. I really wanted to position the sfmtas values related to a regulated taxi industry and that theres a public good to having a regulated taxi industry and that we have an interest in maintaining a strong and healthy taxi industry. And we champion that through these values of public safety, Good Customer Service, accessibility and sustainability. And weve heard a lot of comments are the ble report so i wont go into the details about public safety, but we know include insurance and vehi...

Policymaker i have enough information for what that would look like, but unlimited hours of driving is not safe. We at a local level are at an uncomfortable position. Theres no definition of what a taxicab is at the state level. Tncs are defined as other carriers that are regulated by the cpuc. Im not sure cpuc is the best entity to be regulating. Any industry, much less Transportation Network companies, but at minimum, what is done for limousines at the cpuc level has to be done for tncs as wel...

Sure if the files going to get duplicated or kind of some aspects of supervisor wieners amendment will be accepted, but the one piece i wanted to ensure was on page 3, under the resolve of more stringent safety regulations, that when we talk about using background checks, we do it in a manner thats consistent with a fair chance ordinance that the board of supervisors passed earlier this year around background checks. Did want to note that while we only allow employers to do a seven year look bac...

Up street hails. Last week in the last few weeks there was a registered sex offender actually found to be trying to pick up a street hail so this is a real concern to us when private vehicles that are not clearly marked are providing services so we know the values of Good Customer Service and non discrimination. All customers are required to be served in the taxi industry, all neighborhoods are required to be served. We can do better on that. All cabs are required to accept credit cards and debi...

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....