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 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 them accept credit cards i know where were disadvantaged because the credit card isnt right at the beginning where the the
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 the board Accessible Services team to in recent months for the state make this system not only of the industry as well as some accessible but a real focus on as some of the dynamics that universal design and we feel weve already heard about today that that as we champion and in most of these meetings design principals that benefits and one specific item that the system for all users and 2 well seek your approval for as well so well ask kate to come distinct functions linked through the accident 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 sure they are not and teach them inform them and of course if they are punitive ways of making them understand that would be helpful coming from 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 thi
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 associated with storage at the employee regularly bikes to work however last summer at the irs move to costs associated with memberships were not eligible as part of the draft and indicated legislative action is necessary to broaden the definition even though they had accepted that definition for previous years. All the men would do is just that. It would send the 20 dollar amendment available to bike owners for those participating in a bike share program. Many employers across the country could offer
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 investment in low income areas. An example in my state we have 6. 3 of the poverty resides in florida in the country and yet our new markets tax credit share is only 2 . Those other states are similar that i mentioned. And so what it does this tax credit is incentivize investment of commercial projects to create jobs in low income areas. And since the program was established back in 2000, 36 billion has been invested in eligible communities and it needs that little tweak to get to the poverty so i