What are other cities doing to keep Uber?

to its vehicle for hire ordinance amid uber’s threats to leave the city. we wanted to know what other cities were doing in order to keep uber an option. abc-seven’s complete coverage continues live… … with reporter darren hunt. rick/estela, yesterday we learned uber has left austin after a vote to require fingerprinting of its drivers … but in dallas, where uber continues to operate under new rules, no fingerprinting is required. “for a city of our size, having additional transportation options is really important.” dionn mack is chair of the city of el paso’s transportation for hire committee … tasked with making recommendations to city council that would allow uber to continue to operate in the sun city. “we actually modeled our plan after dallas.” “where are we at on the fingerprinting aspect of this?” “our process does not include a requirement for fingerprints.” “which is in line with what dallas did?” “correct. “it’s not the end of the worl to have somebody go do a fingerprint background check if you want a job.” joe olivar is owner of border taxi … and he thinks fingerprinting all drivers is a good idea. “all these regulations ar common sense approach regulations.” “at the end of the day, if yo don’t think it’s safe, then don’t use it, no one is forcing you to.” city rep cortney niland doesn’t think fingerprinting, which appears to be uber’s biggest concern, is necessary. ” the last thing you want to se is what happened in austin?” “no i don’t, because what i ended up doing was, it’s going to stifle the marketplace.” “some people collec fingerprints and they are for identification in the future, they’re not necessarily being utilized for any type of identification purpose in that background check in the moment … and so from our perspective if it isn’t strengthening the process of doing the background checks and providing us that information, why at this point would be collect something that is not going to be integrated into that verifications process?” mack’s committee will report back to council next tuesday, where a sixth public discussion is planned. uber has not yet responded to my request for comment on why they’ve drawn a line in the sand on the fingerprinting issue. rick/estela. abc-seven’s complete coverage of