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Missing Financial Reports

It took some doing, but most all San Francisco cab companies have now furnished the city with annual financial reports required by law.

The issue surfaced when an analyst hired by the Department of Public Health was unable to complete a study of funding options for a taxi driver health care plan in the absence of the reports. As a result, work on the health care plan has suffered months of delay.

A stern letter of warning from commission Executive Director Heidi Machen seems to have done the trick. The Oct. 6 letter advised companies that they could be subjected to daily fines and suspension or revocation of color scheme permits for failing to file. Before the letter went out, only 10 companies had complied with an August request for the long-delayed reports. Since then, almost all the others have complied.

The funding report is expected by late November.