Lamar Fisher

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Broward County Commission · County Commission on 2025-10-07 10:00 AM - Oct 07, 2025 · 7 Oct 2025 meeting

Wheelchair vehicles are very, very, very expensive.

They're hard to get and they require a lot of maintenance.

And you still get the same taxi meter rate as you do on a regular taxi.

So we need to keep those, and we don't need to abandon those certificates.

It's expensive to get them.

Also, Yellow Cab proudly has hybrid vehicles.

Almost 90% of their fleet are Priuses.

Priuses are very hard to get if we abandon Certificates and then we're going to give back the cars and we're not going to have the cars when we need them for the tops Program and all the other great things that Broward County is doing So for all of those reasons I would tell and also by the way last mile first mile I know we've talked a lot about that again a program that we will be utilizing taxis with with Broward County Transit another important reason why

In the future, we're going to need these certificates, and we don't want to abandon them.

Quickly, other issues, no rate increase, no additional taxi certificates, a flat rate to Port Everglades, more wheelchairs.

Other people need to step up and do these wheelchairs.

And the 10 years on the vehicles is a fair compromise.

If you went to five years, you probably wouldn't have any taxis at the airport, sadly.

But 10 years, I think, is a really fair compromise.

And I think the industry would work with that.

Anyway, I'm happy to answer questions when you need it, but we need that resolution.

and we need you to direct the county attorney to do so.

Thank you.

We've obviously been working quite a bit at the Broward Workshop and around the tourism industry

bolstering tourism, certainly the county stepped up with a beautiful billion

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