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As can be noted above, all advertising and media communications will be branded with "High Mileage Yellow 
Cabs" or "Low Emission Yellow Cabs", the Yellow Cab dispatch phone number (206) 622- 6500 and website, the 
phrases "Always Available Yellow Cabs", "Yellow Cab Gets You Home", "Yellow Cab to SeaTac" and, of course, the 
color 'Yellow' and the name "Yellow Cab." 

E. Comment on the suitability of the attached draft Lease Agreement, Exhibit 2. 
With five exceptions, the model lease agreement attached to the RFP as Exhibit 2 is acceptable to Puget Sound 
Dispatch, Inc. DBA Yellow Taxi Association:   

(1) Yellow  Cab  will  ask  that  the  model  lease  be  amended  to  specifically  address  Yellow's  space 
requirements  for  its  planned  'Remote  Airport  Dispatch  Center'  facilities,  with  a  provision  that  the 
computer hardware and software systems provided to the Center remain the property of Puget Sound 
Dispatch, Inc.   We would willingly stipulate to terms for uninterrupted use of such equipment, and 
transition to new operators if necessary, at the termination of the lease.  The provision is important to 
us simply because we anticipate investing significantly in such facility and equipment. 

(2) Yellow Cab, while agreeing to the 'deadheading' commitment that it is making in Section 6.1.3.7 of this 
response, will ask that language be added to the lease, noting the intractable and difficult nature of the 
deadheading problem, given that deadheading results in large part from the local regulatory approach 
to the granting of taxicab licenses, jurisdictional authority, and that the airport is not open to multiple 
service providers; and, in the event of failure to reach its stated goals,  provided  that Yellow Cab has 
made a good faith effort to execute its deadheading strategy, as stated herein, these factors will be given 
due  weight and consideration should review of the lease agreement  and possible loss of the franchise 
result. 

(3) Yellow Cab  is concerned  that the draft Lease Agreement seems to presume an employer/employee 
relationship between the concessionaire and the taxicab operator when, in fact, for all major taxicab 
operations in the region, that relationship is as an Independent Contractor. 

(4) Yellow Cab is concerned  that the revenue model on which the lease agreement is based is typical of a 
concessionaire with an employer/employee employment model, and not an Independent Contractor.  
The Port is attempting  to  measure accurately revenues which are not paid to the concessionaire, and 
over which the concessionaire has no direction or control. 

(5) Yellow Cab will ask that 210 'unlimited' airport taxicab permits be issued, and 90 'limited' permits, as 
described above. 

Yellow Cab believes that the model lease agreement can easily be tailored  to address these concerns without 
asking that the goals and objectives of the Port be materially changed, and has indicated how that might be done 
in this response to the RFP. 

F. Provide details of Proposer's service areas. Proposer must, at a minimum, serve those areas listed in 
Exhibit B of the Lease and Operating Agreement. 
All service areas listed in Exhibit B will be serviced fully, for outbound trips, by Yellow Cab, 24/7; service will be 
coordinated with and through the Airport Remote Dispatch Center to minimize deadheading.   

Yellow Cab will pickup airport inbound trips from all areas listed, for which it has regulatory authority, which 
are those in Seattle and King County.   Additionally, with reference to the more distant cities and towns in the 
region on the list, such as Spokane, Yellow Cab will instruct its dispatch services to refer customers  to taxicab 
services which are authorized to pick up passengers in the respective service areas. 

19 Yellow Cab Response to the Port of Seattle RFP #090061 November 6, 2009 
Yellow Cabs to the airport drive green engines.  Serving the Port of Seattle at SeaTac International Airport, from all of Seattle and 
King County, with environmentally friendly taxicabs.    
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