Chamber Parks its Survey At Council Meeting
The survey was taken between April 11th and 19th, and the results were presented here on Opinion 250 when the results were initially released. (see previous story)
The survey indicates that of the 151 responses, just 38% said pay parking should return to downtown, but that number increased to 45.6% when asked if they would support a return to pay parking if the dollars raised went to road maintenance and repair.
Under the current parking system, drivers can park on the street for two hours without paying. However, tires will be chalked and the clock watched. If the vehicle hasn’t been moved , a ticket will be issued.
The system was a pilot project, which Mayor Shari Green says did not work. She says while people may envision the old style meters where you put in the coins and turn the dial, that is not the case. She says there are more than $100 thousand dollars in fines that have not yet been paid and those fines are now in the hands of a collections agency.
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Collecting a $100,000 from a collection agency spells failure in policy to me. Collection agencies should be left out of the equation IMO. Not sure how many people that represents, but it sure wouldn’t leave anyone with a good impression of our downtown.
Does the collection agency do the collecting for free? I doubt it.
Will be great if they bring pay parking down there. Hopefully that would make everyone stay away from there and we could watch all the shops down there go under. More boarded up run down dives. It already looks great down there now with all the derelect buildings and bums hanging around. Please do pay parking and please, make it expensive. I would love to see more failures down there. Just to keep up the tradition. This green is the worst mayor ever in the history of PG. Worse then snooki. And soon we will be voting them both out. So come on shari try and get parking money from me. You will never ever get money from me. EVER.
Snooki? Enlighten me, please!
So, the Chamber of Commerce goes to the trouble of conducting a well-designed survey. The survey shows little support for bringing back downtown parking fees.
Next: The Citizen reports that the city will go ahead with bringing pay parking back again!
???
So much for the survey and the majority opinion of the merchants! It appears that the survey was just a PR exercise, the result to be ignored in favour of a previously made decision to go ahead no matter what! Can’t blame one for coming to this conclusion as ignoring scientific presentations/petitions is a well established method here.
When is the next municipal election?
She says there are more than $100 thousand dollars in fines that have not yet been paid and those fines are now in the hands of a collections agency.”
What she does not say is whether they are all from the trial period or also the period before.
And, if they are all from the trial period, how much went to the collection agencies for a similar period before?
In never ceases to amaze me how stupid politicians think people are. They must think we are all like them. ;-)
I believe collection agencies buy the rights to collect. In other words, the City would have been paid a percentage on the dollar and the collection agencies buy the rights on a speculative basis based on their track record for ability to collect.
“Snooki? Enlighten me, please!”
I think he means Spitz …. ;-)
“When is the next municipal election?”
A long time away, when all this trivial stuff will have been forgotten.
BUT ….. we can all pray that there will be a nice juicy scandal closer to the election that will make all of this sound very trivial …. ;-)
If $ are collected Downtown it should not go to re-paving roads outside of Downtown.
If it’s going to be paid parking it should support the area affected, downtown.
Certain times of the day before 3PM on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Avenues, you could shoot two cannons down each street and not hit anything. Best analogy I could come up with.
The outfit that looks after the parking at the hospital won’t be interested in running the pay parking downtown if there isn’t enough volume.
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