It's Time to Welcome Uber to Jacksonville

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Next meeting 4/6/16 at 1:30pm. 1st floor of city hall?

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8 1/2 hours out. Anyone going? Will Public comment be allowed? Don't bet your medallion on it.

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Anyone going?
Open to the Public.
Except Public Comment?
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Anyone going? 4/27/16 at 10:30 am 1st. Floor city hall. Open to the PUBLIC. Will Public Comment be allowed? Can now watch the meeting live. COJ.net go to city council. live streaming from the Lynwood Roberts room. Looking for 3 new amendments to be approved.

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Taxis suing Miami-Dade for $1 billion over new Uber law

Miami-Dade faces a $1 billion lawsuit by taxi companies over legalizing Uber, which the plaintiffs say has demolished the value of the exclusive taxi "medallions" they purchased from the county years ago.

"We had $350,000 fair-market value before Mother's Day 2014," taxi lawyer Ralph Patino said, referring to what one of the more than 2,000 county taxi medallions sold for on the secondary market before Uber and Lyft started operations in Miami-Dade two summers ago. "Now we're down to about $60,000."

The lawsuit rests on an argument Uber and Lyft, its much smaller competitor, have faced nationwide as their app-based ride service has upended taxi industries in major cities coast to coast. Taxi industries last fall lost a key court ruling in New York, and Miami-Dade officials say they're confident the county has no obligation to protect the value of medallions against changes to the local car-for-hire industry.

In February, Patino's taxi-cab clients filed suit against the county seeking to preemptively block a Miami-Dade bill designed to legalize Uber and Lyft. Miami-Dade commissioners passed the ordinance Tuesday evening, and Mayor Carlos Gimenez, a top Uber supporter, plans to let it become law when the 10-day veto window ends next week. After Tuesday's vote, taxi leaders promised more legal action, and Gimenez said he wasn't worried.

"We can't be held hostage," Gimenez said Tuesday evening. "That was something they were hanging over our heads for a long time, to scare us. There's been legal action around the country. We'll take that on, too."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article75555187.html

[Noone]

On First Coast Connect right now.

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Here's an example of what's happened when UBER was ran out of Austin Texas. People aren't going back to Taxis..



http://rare.us/story/uber-is-gone-in-austin-but-locals-arent-turning-back-to-cabs/?utm_source=JulieBorowski&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Influencer

[Noone]

Uber and Lyft on First Coast Connect again.

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The 6/8/16 10:30 am meeting has been canceled.

[Noone]

The meeting has been rescheduled for 6/13/16 at 3:30 pm. 1st floor city hall. Open to the Public.

[Noone]

^The rescheduled meeting is for 3pm not 3:30. FINES and PENALTIES were still to be decided. The day before a potential floor amendment and city council vote.

[Noone]

Meeting today at 3. Anyone going? FINES and PENALTIES to be defined. Will this be ready for a council vote on 6/14/16?

[Noone]

1 hour out. Anyone going?

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WOW! What a Ride of a meeting. How do you rate this one?
What will be reported? Look for special legislation to waive the revenue for the medallion requirements for the taxi companies for another 3 months. How much revenue is that? The Uber guy said they could go with an annual license fee. Committee member Garrett Dennis was told that the lost revenue will have to be made up later from taxpayers. OK.

Agenda item V. Penalties- SEIZURE/IMPOUNDMENT
Have to love this one. Crescimbeni is Sharp. During the meeting before agenda item V. the OED guy Wendland is getting up to leave. Crescimbeni gets up and catches Kirk before he goes. So back to agenda item V. when it comes up.  SEIZURE/IMPOUNDMENT Crescimbeni asks about the procedure if a vehicle is impounded and seized for a parking violation. So Wendland is gone. Some guy at the table says that you have to talk to the parking guy. Crescimbeni tells the guy that is why I got up to catch Wendland before he left and said you could answer the question. The guy at the table says we have a new parking guy that took over for Jack Shad and he is not here. How convenient. Also Parking has been taken over by the DIA. Crescimbeni then asks is there anyone from the DIA here. NO. How convenient. WOW!

What a meeting!

[Noone]

The legislation is 2016-422. Public Hearing 6/28/16
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