Roll call.

Cindy Bowl here.

Shandy McDonald.

Jim Linnap, Scott Ballard, and Trina Cardi here.

Also with us today, we have Heather Pope, Director of Redevelopment.

Grace Kessler, who is our city council liaison.

Jason Major, who is our liaison from the BCSC board.

Mary Stro is on, she is on virtual.

Tom Dell is present as well.

This is our regular monthly meeting of the redevelopment commission.

We have three action items on our agenda today.

Gary Thompson REI is present to introduce the request.

Gary, please.

Thank you.

Join us.

Hello.

Hello.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Back in January of this year, I presented the budget, the 2026 budget, and in that we had a line item to replace the parking equipment in Jackson Street.

And that really came from the fact that we received a notice from Evans Time, our equipment provider from a Mono, which is the manufacturer that said that they were no longer going to support the software for our parking equipment.

And that would end on July 14th of 2026.

If anything happened to in the past, if if our system would go down, they would basically find a workaround for us to get back online and keep working.

So without the software, we have to make a change to a different system altogether.

And just as uh for some history, our equipment that's in Jackson Street right now was installed in 2011.

Um and we've obviously replaced different parts over the years.

Um really the biggest being the server and the software were upgraded in 2020.

Um and in the past, up until the last probably five, seven years.

Um if you had a parking system, then you would have your own server, uh, big server on on site with your own software, and then you'd be responsible for all the updates and the you know being PCI compliant, which is the biggest thing, the parking garage.

If you take um if you take credit cards and you have to be PCI compliant, and so without them supporting the software in the future, then we won't get those PCI compliant patches, um, which is uh detrimental.

Um let's see.

Could you explain what PCI stands for?

It's just being secure with your credit cards.

So there's uh this whole uh litany of things that you have to um prove to to be PCI compliant.

So basically the credit cards look at your system and they'll determine whether you're PCI compliant or not.

And so in the past, we get all those upgrades from upgrading our server, upgrading um our firewalls.

We typically every two years have to upgrade our firewalls and that type of thing.

So in the future, we'll get out of that.

Um, and uh we'll go to software as a service, um, which uh basically every parking operator or every parking equipment provider now is going to software as a service, and so we don't need to buy a server going forward, which is great in my opinion.

Um, and just as a reference, I put in financials.

Um in 2025, the Jackson Street Garage made 31,532 in daily or transient revenue.

So that's just from tickets, guess of the garage.

Um that's not monthly parking revenue.

As far as quotes, um, I I have quotes from two different uh manufacturers.

Um, a mono and flash parking.

A mono is the the biggest provider of equipment in America, um, and flash is probably number two.

So the uh so both these quotes are are exactly the same apples and apples as far as what we get, what features we get, what they offer.

Um and so with the Amano, the model the model is a Mono One and with equipment installed 77,652 dollars.

I put a $5,000 contingency in there just because we're using original all the original conduit and and as much wiring as we can use existing.

But if any of those conduits are full, we may have to pull new things or pull more new lines and new conduit, which may be a cost.

And then I added the SAS uh software as a service, the first year total cost, and and the SAS is really a 12 month um you pay the same amount every month, so it's every month you pay this fee.

But I included it in the the this this quote because I think it it makes a difference when you look at it uh how much it's gonna cost you on a yearly basis, and it helps you make sure that uh you're not overpaying.

So a mono uh is a little more expensive on the install and the equipment, uh, but it totals out to 89,252 uh for this first year, and then Flash came in just under that or just over that at 91,774.

And the the main difference being the SAS fee for the Flash parking is uh quite a bit larger, it's $3,234 a year more than a mono.

So you know, in five years we'll we'll save $15,000 a mono.

As far as features, both systems can be configured to integrate with reservation platforms, uh including uh Parkwiz, Spot Hero, and Park Mobile, those will all be loaded onto both machines, whatever one we would we would pick.

Um and that's important in that down the road if the city uh does get to the point where uh there are uh on street parking, then whatever system they would pick, it'd be one of these three, and so it'd be one system for the city if it's park mobile or park wiz or parkour.

Um so that'll be automatically included.

Um and again installation will include a cloud-based software system uh using software as a service, and then this will eliminate us ever buying a server or locally hosted software.

Um all software updates will be automatic, and the system will will be PCI compliant.