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NEWARK -- City officials on Wednesday released additional details of its $10 million deal with Uber, which they claim will regulate the mobile car-hailing app and create a level playing field with local taxi drivers.

The agreement, however, has failed to keep the men behind the yellow cabs from seeing red.

Mayor Ras Baraka, Corporation Counsel Willie Parker and Uber New Jersey General Manager Ana Mahony appeared at a City Hall press conference to discuss the deal, which will prevent Uber drivers from lingering at Newark Liberty International terminals and mandates driver background checks.

"We consider this agreement a major positive step forward," said Mahoney.

Representatives of the city's taxi lobby, however, were not beside them at the podium. Gerard Alexandre, a representative of Newark-based Family Auto Cab, made remarks in support of the deal, but a number of cab drivers, including Newark Cab Association President Abbas Abbas, repeatedly interrupted to voice their displeasure.

The uproar marked the latest sign of rancor from taxi drivers over the city's dealings with Uber, following a large protest outside a City Council meeting last week. Officials had cautioned that they were still meeting with the cab lobby to negotiate a deal they hoped would placate the drivers' concerns, but those attempts appear to have fallen flat.

Pat Russo, a New York-based attorney representing the city's taxi associations said the regulations presented a "multitude of issues" that tipped the competitive balance in favor of Uber and its ilk.

Among those he listed were Uber's background checks -- which forgo fingerprinting in favor of a criminal and motor vehicle records search by a third-party provider -- along with potential legal issues regarding Uber drivers' use of personal insurance.

"This is going to promote a secondary standard, one that doesn't actually help the riding public," he said. "(The cab drivers) were not a part of the discussion."

Russo said the associations are weighing "all legal options" in an attempt to block the deal from becoming law.

Baraka said he had met with Abbas and representatives from the Communications Workers of America and the Newark Taxi Commission, but ultimately could not meet their demands.

"Obviously some of them don't want Uber to exist at all," he said. "That's something that I can't promise or give them."

The proposed regulations may also face opposition from the Port Authority, which told the Associated Press last week that it harbored concerns about limiting mobile car-hailing companies' access to the airport.

In addition to limiting access to airport terminals and background checks, Newark and Uber's agreement includes a zero tolerance drug and alcohol policy and $1.5 million liability insurance policy requirement for drivers, and will allow the city to audit the company annually.

Uber will pay $3 million of the $10 million fee to the city up front, with the rest to be spread over the following decade. Baraka said much of the money would be used to buy essential equipment such as trucks and snowplows and to fund new public safety initiatives.

When asked about the continued opposition from cab drivers, he said he felt the city had made an honest attempt to find a compromise between all parties.

"I'm starting to believe that whatever we come up with, they're going to be opposed to. We cannot drive (Uber) out of business, the same way we're not trying to drive the cabs out of business," he said.

"If the market changes, then you have to adjust to the market. That's exactly what happens in any business."

Dan Ivers may be reached at divers@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DanIversNJ. Find NJ.com on Facebook.