Exhibit B
Minutes Exhibit B Part Commission Regular Meeting of November 8. 2016 EQUO'ACCQSS ('3 Equal Fore - 24/7Anywhere Wheelchair Accessible Taxi andWheelchair Accessible VehicleAssociation of Washington Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Testimony to Seattle Port Commission November 8, 2016 a We object to the GT Fee increase of 45% for "Belled in taxicabs", which is W THE BUDGET. 0 Having GT staff say "they may consider quarterly payments" is neither a concrete action, nor does it address the - The Port Commission approved allowing at-rateforhire (FRFH) vehicles to operate last March. Since that occurred, belled-in trips increased dramatically. . However, those FRFH vehicles using belledvin access were nearly all Eastside for Hire (ESFi-I). - Now that ESFH is operating the taxi concession, the vehicles previously using the belied-in service are no longer doing so. . GT staff and Port Budget staff seem to be intransigent in recognizing this anomaly, budgeting an increase in belied-in trips, despite the very-real data showing that the ACTION REQUESTED . Drop the Belled-in fee increase 0 Make quarterly reviews on taxis - Allow quarterly payments on belled-in permits . The GT analysis presented on October 28 demonstrates that the Port of Seattle makes 0 the Port of Seattle. That noted on slide 3 of the "Ground Transportation Proposal to Address On-Demand Operations and Transportation Network Companies" PowerPoint presented January 12, 2016. ACTION REQUESTED . Port COMMISSION analyze the policies that led to removing taxicabs from the "Cost Recovery" model and put into the "Revenue Generation" model 0 Taxi operators, not the taxi concession-holding company, pay these onerous fees, resulting in a minimum $36 million extracted from immigrants and refugees from Third World countries over a 5-year taxi contract - CHANGE the model to Cost Recovery, or ADJUST the minimum trip fee dramatically downward. A Washington Non-Prot Corporation UBI 604 053 022 PO Box 69003 6 Seattle WA 98168 ESFH is 5 weeks into their taxi concession contract and they have_ 0 As I have stated numerous times, the Port is bound by interlocal agreements with King County to follow county taxi code; one of those interlocal agreements requires that the Port makes certain that it: contractors also follow those codes. 0 King County Code requires that . In allowing unapproved wheelchair accessible vehicles to operate, putting itself in jeopardy for legal liability in addition to violating those codes. 0 With only two legal WAVs and 7 legal WAT, it should be clear that ESFH is incapable of meeting the fleet demands to provide adequate wheelchair service without violating KCC. ACTION REQUESTED - Relieve ESFH of their obligation to provide wheelchair accessible service. 0 Allow the Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Association, incorporated as a nonprot organization, the contract with the Port of Seattle to provide ADA services. These are serious issues that simply must be explained. Port Commissioners are being presented, today, with a nearly-baked budget proposal for the rst reading. I am fuliy aware that there are thousands of line items in the budget, and the GT fee increases may be both armne and lack sex appeal. it should be appalling and embarrassing for Port Commissioners to discover the Port makes a 302.3% prot off taxi operators, further demonstrating the hypocrisy of Port policy, the stated_ as noted on slide 3 of the PowerPoint , referenced above. Cindi Laws Director Page 2 Secretary of State I, KIM WYMAN, Secretaty of State of the State of Washington and custodian of its sea], hereby issue this CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION t0 WHEELCHAIRACCESSIBLE TAXI AND WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON a/an WA Non-Prot Corporation. Charter documents are effective on the date indicated below. Date: 10/14/2016 UBI Number: 604-053-022 Given under my hand and the Seal of the State of Washington at Olympia, the State Capital /w Kim Wyman, Secretary of State Date Issued: 10/26/2016
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