age and mileage code be reduced and the transfer fee down and the ramp user fee through june 2016 vehicle age and meanwhile, after review and discussion of the age we determined the proper maintained vehicle can remain in service that is a non-technique vehicle can be higher are the proposed amendment to increase the entry mileage up to 70 to one hundred thousand miles and remain in operation up to one hundred and 75 that's american people increase and for the vehicle age to increase by one year not more than seven years through 8 or 9 model years

inspection schedule remains the same we're looking at the vehicle inspection at san francisco we refer to them as g t u and all taxis are required to be inspected every 12 months unless used as spares or have more than $100,000,000,000 g t u has been notified of the proposed changes medallion retransfer fee is reduced from 20 percent of the transfer to 5 percent staff considers this to maintain the fees in alignment with on the jurisdictions in the 20 percent fee were subtracted it would be having to be increased and have a big impact on financing a refinancing typical

the down payment is 5 hundred and that provides a loan of 37 thousand 5 hundred and it's important to note we have buyers that are willing to purchase the medallion lastly the lamp medallion new fee is set another $500 and to wave the fee until the end of the cycle june 2016 that's for the legislation and lastly i want to point out we've invited two representatives here today to answer questions as well maria the director of policy and planning of the public utilities commission i've not seen her yet and colleague in the deputy airport is either here or will be here shortly to help answer

questions. >> members of the public at this point and i have that two people that have turned in a speaker card make sure you turn in a speaker card now. (calling names) >> good afternoon directors i'm sam duke i'm speaking as a private citizen who has been urging rented cabs ever since they came into the system i can't use any another transportation vehicle except the advancing which are not

helpful for me and many of the drivers i've known for 15 or 20 years are their desperate to have a assistance in living and the new so forth where all of those people are coming in and taking away the business from the cab companies t ncs will not have ramp carvings they never will have ramp cabs on the street for the wheelchair people there are many wheelchair people that like to get out and about for one reason or another can't use muni at all i use muni wherever i can but that its impervious those lower fees and restrictions on the t

ncs happen because interest is not fair to the system as a whole that our taxicab drivers are being penalty listed by paying those fees they'll never have ramp cabs to please this is so important that they have the ability to continue running ramp cabs in the taxi industry. >> (clapping.) thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon 0, sir. >> thank you mr. nolan. >> i want to thank the previous speaker and thank kate and this board for approving this

retransfer fee reduction to 5 percent for the 6 hundred people the taxis that will be taxi drivers that have purchased medallions for 2 hundred and 50 no other is city charge that and previously up to today, it's been 20 percent the person is $50,000 in the hole and it's wrong thank you for recognizing that and making the change >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon director nolan. >> i want to say kate is doing the best under the circumstances there's been questions raised it behooves me why you haven't heard from the airport and the c

puc that was requested it is an insult they couldn't come and speak to you considering they don't have to travel far not the c puc person they're having hearings with the lack of data i know you ought to get the reporting if our staff but i'm very concerned about two issues the ramp taxi the financial incentives are a great thing and wonderful but a way of corresponding the system better with working with the drivers to make sure they're getting paid a decent income because i'm sure you're aware of the other puc's will not provide it and having an app in every cab it's a

wonderful idea except that people have said don't talk bad about them but the problem it's not true the phone maybe in the vehicle and the app but the driver may not log into the app or not able to use the app and it happens a lot of times you can ask other people bar is low to block drivers for any reason there's no documentation on why that happens and the difficulty of getting ahold of people and closing that the orders are too far away the technology is not good enough not good enough. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon mr. lee.

>> good afternoon mr. nolan we have a rain we're very happy not only sharing the ride we're going to share the wife and the husband sharing the children, sharing the housing everything coming very soon we're going living in a high tech world so the clean energy everybody follow clean energy and they take away our business and enter the airport and everybody high tech everybody say it's good not in china very, very good related our taxi business that step by step now but finally, i want to see like a lot of cities in the world like london and

taiwan and hong kong and india and they don't have color scheme there taxi is taxi taxi should be servicing to the public from the taxi driver to the public that's what uber is doing only two years from technology i hope you'll provide this 6 hundred medallion owner we want to lower our expenses fee to driving our cabs and lower we pay too much fee a lot of drivers are single operator the airport is hooded up with the uber and they don't inspectors their car i don't know why they found a political buyer a tech i'm a low tech

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon charles racketing born on behalf of the luxury scabbing company thank you to our staff and the recommendations regarding the ramp taxis and the transfer fees yes, yes, yes we're not sure about the proposed vehicle changes but from a nuts and bolts and mechanic prospective she's correct a little bit extra is not going to make a difference but public exceptions are clearly going up they want the cab to be better and faster and cheaper we're not sure changing those vehicles requirements is such a good idea at this time if you want to do that i'm per situated by the

other arguments making them employ to the spare cabs that are lows heavily eyed >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon directors lore down the transfer fee for the medallion makes sense but not for all medallions i'll tell you why you're going to give 95 percent of the prices to the medallion holders decorators decorators i remind you that medallion is the city property and that's money you can't allow the regionals to take that money that was long before that was wrong now and in the future so, please stop sending those medallions that were given free decorators i believe that lower

the standards of the cab that favor our competition by the owner of the cabs will get break because of the current situation the owner of the cabs have assigned drivers on their vehicle therefore the cabs are are much better than the the big cab companies their driven by multiple drivers everyday those cabs are between and beat up before the current standards exteriors if you only lower the cabs that makes sense directors cab drivers are coming up to me and raising their frustration you giving all kinds of breaks to the cab companies and how about the cab drivers lower the fee to $60 and giving a fee otherwise we're going to lose

nor drivers pause cab drivers are not making money those days thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please (calling names) and good afternoon. >> good afternoon greg cochran the general manager we support outline 3 issues we want to thank kate and itself sfmta board listening to where we need to try to flexibility in running our businesses purchasing cabs on the open market really the cab million dollars are the miles that the cabs has prior to them becoming a cab a lot of the conditions are the same our inspections in place and quality vehicles on the road and need flexibility to purchase cars there's more available so we applaud you for

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) good afternoon. >> hey hi good afternoon. i'm from the soto cab i want to say we support all of the 3 things on the agenda i want to make a comment on the vehicle span it is gives us a little bit more flexibility of buying cars that have more difficult cars to buy especially he at this point the prices are much up and i think there is as long as there is some kind of inspection that goes through every year inspecting the cars i think it is i don't see anything wrong with keeping the car that files up the requirements for the agencies

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon board i'd like to say i definitely support what kate has put forward the reason it's from my paratransit experience i was with an original broker in the 80s and taxi services was, in fact, the majority of the time for paratransit costs down and it was very useful service as a survivor of the agnes taxi forces i see this as much anymore constructive and looks like a lot of good work to keep the taxi industry going it's vital to improve that it is very important for paratransit to

survive and keep under budget which is difficult we can't do that without the taxi service so this is a very fda an important proposal and we welcome it >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon hello my issue is about insurance in general since part of our business has been taken down with any companies any cars logical thing to how to do the expenses one of our biggest experiences is still insurance we pay $10,000 a year yesterday, i spent one hour of

my working time i went to dmv and printed out the dmv for the last ten years i want to take a look at there's no accidents or any violations i mean tickets for the last 10 years were my fault and being san franciscan cab drivers for the last 15 years i still see too many drivers like me who have this like i and yeah, i would like to ask you to comparing like for example, you go to work everyday and from work that's all mostly

we're on the road everyday by many hours and again, i have zero accidents and zero things i'm still at risk the drivers all the new c m g drivers we have to be strategic and give this to them i'm not sure i need a little bit more. >> everybody gets the same amount of time we'll laboratory your report. >> (calling names) and he's the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, i have a question why we still play with tmc what is the g t u who provide the

insurance or puc or whatever they have difficult and still given the form and second they have all night why we don't give them like the golden gate bridge second time charge and talk about insurance kate says mta not recognize or recognize only two thousand taxis and in our world should may $11,000 everybody like sdooemz and tmc didn't pay reunite but next strike everyone will go over the golden gate bridge and after now the after please after i come into ass cot please leave and they've feel in a different way. >>

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) the last person that turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon from san francisco taxi alliance and also a long term taxi driver i think kate tor run and mta to trying to help us in reducing the costs to run a cab try to you know change the vehicle requirement and you know really do this medallion transfer fee i think this is great step we need to do a lot more things to help us we have no fair practice at the airport i mean, we have to go into the lot i see the uber drivers or is tmcs are picking up on the upper level they're not following rules their supposed to go back to the lot but they don't do that they

drop one of and sometimes their picking up two or three people like ride sharing so it's costing us 3 fairs for every tmc action like 2 hundred and 50 fees one at the bridge and one h at the american in two or three most we'll lose all the business you have to have limits. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> happy holidays for those who don't know me, i'm back i'm not canadian i don't do survey for money camera i had a survey every year and give to the taxi

drives for freeze to improve the taxi service 17 years ago i thought if you run any business you should know how attests running and 17 years ago i was naive and factored in good faith and fairness the data and produced didn't lie on pr politicians this is the 17th survey i've conducted at a public service for the public and for you to do as you see fit the question are you fit to serve the public like i've seen i say, no as a native and resident of the san francisco tell me is gridlock and congestion the plan? because if it is, it is working great you're doing a great job as are taking driver in san francisco

just recently my gate has gone up, my neck gone down and i'm a medallion holder my pay check has drilling down i wouldn't recommended maintaining anyone to be a cab driver i used to love it and recommend it no longer it's a sad day a sad commentary this is my last survey maybe i should sell it to uber maybe they'll value it one thousand customers >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon mr. barker baking i've been driving for 23 years or 22 or 24 i forgot i

lost my i was thinking about this situation like worship are i represent you and whatever they say to my colleagues at work regarding insurance and color scheme i wish you consider it but my question who we are to lift those guys with my respect like uber and side lift and those guys let us keep us in a standoff and put hours instead of thinking about something else and achieve our businesslike last time i saw a junky car picking up those guys and this guy is like i don't know 22 or 23 years old and i was last week saying nonverbal to him are you sure what you're doing and they say yeah, like people you know

just try to think about their pockets but who we are i'm spending 22 years in my job my neck has dropped 75 to percent i have 4 kids i have a wife my wife didn't work she goes to the university i support the whole family i have expenses why do we need to be like this i worked in las vegas and in germany in france and everyone i had consumers you guys have been at apace what's wrong with you thank you, everybody i wish you consider this (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon berry san

francisco taxi alliance i agree with the prices reductions on the transfer fees and i just want to point out that this you know you're allowing those vehicles to operate here a lowering the quality of the taxi industry we're having to add mileage to the car we allow on the road i don't think it is a good idea to allow more than 3 hundred and 25 thousand miles on the vehicles unfortunately, we're forced into this situation now pretty soon we can have 10-year-old vehicles to survive i recommend waving outline fees to taxi drivers you're not imposing fees on other taxiing taxi drivers they don't call themselves taxis i notice in our goals to make transit walking

and bicycling and car sharing the preferred means of travel are you talking about those t nc taxi drivers for profit i hope you mean ride sharers people have not been doing lastly and i want to point out that in order for those private vehicles to be conducted as commercial service means they have to commit insurance fraud or they'll get dropped i'm not sure why the regulated taxi companies are going down and particularly the airport allowing them to pick up people are no license and they're being allowed to get away with we aren't. >> thanks. >> berry the last person to

turn if a speaker card. >> marching maguire i'm glad that gary brought the issue with the car my car has 3 hundred thousand miles but i like the car it runs good but the doorman on the west ton on third said they go to the tmc i pulled up and one after another their coming out of the hotel and not taking cabs part of the reason i got an e-mail from annex you get do i believe points if you sign up for uber we can't compete on that level and many people i read online the public seems to feel those backseat terminals

they hate those backseat terminals i don't know why we're stuck and have those things in our backseat it is not fair peer 39 our tourist the alcatraz ferry they're taking the t nc not cabs a friend of mine said she drove off up with a rental car and so one night she decided to take her own car out and nobody even noticed that she was not in the car she was supposed to e be in we pay millions of dollars how much are they paying are they paying anything to use our cabstands and to use our bus lanes they think they