Minutes Exhibit B
Part Commission Regular Meeting of November
8. 2016
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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
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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

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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