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City Council moves taxicab refranchising ordinance as amended; second reading set
Summary
After extensive debate over evaluative criteria, driver-ownership concerns and cleaner-fuel requirements, the City Council moved an amended ordinance to refranchise taxicab authorities; the ordinance passed on first reading and is held one week for a required second reading.
The Los Angeles City Council moved an amended ordinance on the city’s taxicab refranchising plan after extended questioning about the RFP evaluation, service levels in underserved neighborhoods and environmental standards. The measure was approved as amended on first reading; the council directed that the ordinance be held for second reading one week later.
Council members pressed Department of Transportation (DOT) staff and the city attorney on the legal and operational record behind the RFP. Shelley Smith, assistant city attorney representing DOT, said the city’s position was that a previously filed consent judgment did not bar the RFP process: "We do not believe that consent decree, in fact, applies to this particular request for…
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