The meeting on 2023-11-09 began with approval of previous minutes, followed by a parking enforcement update from the Parking Division Manager, a presentation from the Economic Development Corporation (EDC), an update from the City Auditor, and concluded with a unanimous vote to go into closed session for legal matters, contract negotiations, and real estate discussions.
Welcome to business session. Our first item is approval of minutes from our previous business session, which was a long, long time ago. Is there a motion? So move, second. Second, all in favor of approving minutes from October 5th or October 12th, rather. Say aye. Aye. All opposed. All right. Motion passes. Our items for today. Mr. Muckenthaler. I talked to her she. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, Council members. My name is Matthew Muckenthaler. I'm the parking division manager. I have a lot of information to share with you today, so I'm going to uh try to be brief with all of these so you can make sure you get through the rest of your agenda. I'm going to try and keep the topic of parking enforcement, uh, trying to keep it tied into the rest of the parking ecosystem as we go. So first, um, I know there's some new faces with council. We've been working very hard over the last couple of years to right size our on-street parking system. Just to briefly, you know, show you why on-street parking is so important. Um, it just it touches so many aspects of visitor, residential, local business. Um, on-street parking is uh a solution and management strategies are necessary to keep it going. These are sort of the four pillars of parking management as we execute them in public works. Today we'll be focusing mostly on the reducing citations and increasing compliance. Last November, we instituted and uh implemented the civil parking enforcement and adjudication system. In the top right, I circled twelve thousand six hundred. That's the number of warnings that we've issued in that time, sort of showcasing the light hand approach that we said we were going to implement. And then on the bottom left, you can see the growth just using May as an example of parking meter compliance. So that's a result of the parking enforcement. Uh the two T two key takeaways from the graphs and charts here is that um we're seeing more tickets paid and we're seeing them paid faster. So that means that we have an easy to use, fairly priced system that's generating compliance. Total revenues since we've implemented is a little over two million dollars for the parking system. How this is why this is important to the industry targets is you can see in fiscal year 22, we ended with 260 dollars compared to the industry average of 1500. Our target is only a thousand dollars because again, we're focusing on compliance, and while revenues are a necessary or uh uh understood byproduct of a parking management system, they're not the goal. It's the downstream effects of all of the big picture items that we just discussed. Uh quick distribution of the parking tickets and parking ticket types. Um, most of our warnings are regarding uh payments at the parking meters. A lot of our non-warnings sort of start spanning some of the other illegal parking. I did highlight that on the state license plate required. Uh the first month that plate is expired. We're just instituting a warning. The second month is when uh tickets occur. In July, we implemented the scoff law and immobilization program. To date, we've had 50 mobilization devices or boots, um, as you might be familiar with them, collecting 21,000 of uh those repeat offenders. In total, our scoff law we've collected over 40 percent. Some of the other uh benefits of a modernized parking enforcement system is the data that we can collect. We're nearing viability of occupancy data from the enforcement system.