ON MONDAY, July 25, 2016, City Commission will finalize its magnum opus, the vehicle for hire ordinance. First order of business -- delete LEANNA FREEMAN's anticompetitive limit on vehicle age and mileage, which all Commissioners agreed to do at their July 11, 2016 meeting, rejecting pressures from dodgy JAMES HOWARD, SAX TAXI owner, whom unrebutted testimony established wanted to put all other cab companies out of business. Second order of business: a pro-competition statement.
Here's the flawed proposed ordinance, prior to Monday's modifications to make it legal, avoid unconstitutional takings in violation of the Fifth Amendment, and prevent the City from being sued for triple damages and attorney fees under our antitrust laws:
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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