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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 1989MINUTES MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of July 13, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, David Reynolds, Mark Rivette Members Absent: Alderman Rainey, Ira Golan, Harvey Pranian, Alex Sproul, Joan Sable, Nels Vexler Staff Present: Barber, Jennings Chairman Rudy called the meeting to order at 6:08 P.K. A quorum was not present to conduct business, but the Committee discussed several items for future consideration. The Chairman indicated that the regular meeting time for the Mayor's Special Committee on Parking Needs would be the second Thursday of each month and the Committee would meet from 6:00 P.M. until 7:30 P.M. except for the month of August, when the meeting would be moved to the third Thursday (August 17). Staff was directed to send out the minutes for this meeting and a notice of the date for the next meeting soon and then precede the meeting with a mailing, including an agenda and pertinent meeting items. The Chairman indicated it was the intent of this Committee to concentrate more on the long term parking problems and develop solutions for these problems rather than concentrate on immediate short term parking problems. It was suggested that the Committee may consider establishing subcommittees to concentrate in more detail on separate tasks such as long term studies, enforcement issues, and other issues as needs arise. This will be discussed in more detail in the future. The Committee spent a period of time discussing information presented in the Parking Improvement Program for the Evanston Central Business District (CBD) prepared in September, 1985. (Copies of pages 3, 54 and 55 of the study were discussed and are attached to the minutes.) The Committee indicated that the material presented in this study, while only about four years old, is out of date in light of the improvements currently under way and those completed in the Central Business District. The Committee also expressed concern that the parking needs in other districts throughout the city, such as the Howard Street; Chicago/Main; Dempster; Central Street; and Dodge Avenue areas are not included. Staff was directed to contact Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc. to provide a proposal for updating the 1985 CBD study and also for proposals to prepare parking plans for the other districts previously mentioned. A brief discussion was held concerning the enforcement of vehicle registration by the City and the Committee asked that staff provide a brief response comparing vehicle registrations and distribution of City permits within the City of Evanston. MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL. COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of July 13, 1989......... Page Two Staff was also requested to remind all members of the Mayor's Special Committee on Parking Needs to review the Barton-Aschman study prior to the August meeting and requested that all members not having a copy of the study contact David Barber, Director of Public Works (866-2956) to obtain a copy of that study. There being no further business before the Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 7:25 P.M. Respectfully submitted, David H. Barber MINUTES MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of August 17, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, Alderman Rainey and Alex Sproul Members Absent: David Reynolds, Mark Rivette, Ira Golan, Harvey Pranian, Joan Sable and Nels Vexler Staff Present: Barber, Jennings The meeting was called to order at 6:04 P.M. by Chairman Rudy. A quorum was not present to conduct business. Minutes of Julv 13. 1989 Meetinw, - No action was taken due to the lack of a quorum. Parking Needs Assessment - Discussion of Proposal, - The Committee began the discussion by reviewing Figure #1 in Table U17 from the 1985 Parking Study. It was noted that the large parking shortages which occur in the downtown area are in blocks where highrise buildings exist. Alex Sproul indicated that as the study would affect outlying areas, he did not believe present or projected levels of economic activity warrant any further expenditure of public funds for parking studies. He indicated better management of parking resources in those neighborhoods would help resolve many of the problems. It was noted that in the Dempster Street area $500,000 was spent for a parking lot and the property in question was taken off the tax roles. It was indicated that enough money has been spent in this area. It was suggested that the Main/Chicago area, the Howard Street area and the Dempster Street area be removed from the proposal. The Committee noted it may be more appropriate to direct efforts toward reducing the demand by employees for parking rather than adding more spaces. It seems the more spaces that are added, the more cars appear to use them. Alderman Rainey commented that the low cost of parking encourages people to drive, whereas increasing parking fees may encourage people to use public transportation. The Committee noted that it would also be advisable to eliminate the Church/Dodge area from consideration in the study. Hr. Sproul indicated that we may wish to consider using funds not used to study the parking areas included in the proposal to find ways to encourage people not to :rive, such as providing .additional bikeways, additional walkways, encourag:ng 'Ise of mass transportation and development of mass transporta':_"• _:e5, etc. A brief discussion on the lakefront parking took place _ :: ^,ent :nat maybe we should consider this parking for Evanston res::�7.ts )nly :t was also noted that some of the monies not used for the study _quid also be used to investigate other means of enforcement. David Jennings, ;i.y Traffic Engineer, commented that maybe Barton-Aschman is not the _,rnpany to do this type of study ,enforcement). The Committee then discusser whether Ir not it was possible for staff to do some of this work. If the •.tor+ were to be done within our City staff structure, additional people will he necessary. It was decided to discuss this item further at future meet:7:g: MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS August 17, 1989........... Page Two Free Parking (Retail, Office, Residential. Other) - It was discussed that the current Zoning Code provides for the reduction in parking requirements for the downtown. The Committee requested that this item be removed from future agendas. Zoning Commission Policies Regarding Parking - It was suggested by Alderman Rainey that a letter be sent to the Zoning Commission indicating that it is not appropriate to continue the use of these parking bonuses. Vehicle Registration (State vs City) - (Alderman Rainey left the meeting during this discussion.) The communication provided with the agenda was received, reviewed and accepted by the Committee. Mr. Sproul asked if it is possible to find vehicle registration figures from years past, possibly up to as much 20 years or so of records to determine trends. Staff will provide additional response on this issue in the future. Ordinance 95-0-88 - Parking Restrictions on Maple between Emerson and University Place - It was indicated by Alderman Rainey that this item should not have been referred to the Mayor's Special Committee on Parking Needs, but to a subcommittee to review parking matters which consisted of Aldermen Rainey, Korshak and Rudy. After a brief discussion, it was decided that this item would be referred to that subcommittee of the City Council. There being no further business before the Committee, the meeting adjourned at 7:26 P.M. The next meeting will be at 6:00 P.M. on September 14, 1989. Respectfully► submitted, 'f 'i.... I :V. - ) David H. Barber MINUTES MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of October 12, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, Alderman Rainey, Alex Sproul and Gerald Murphy Members Absent: Hark Rivette, Harvey Pranian, Nels Vexler, David Reynolds and Joan Sable Staff Present: Barber, Jennings The meeting was called to order at 6:05 P.H. by Chairman Rudy. Minutes of Meeting of September 21, 1989 - The following corrections in the minutes were noted. I. On Page 2 the second suggestion under Garage Management should read "-offer substantial reduction to car poolers." 2 On Page 1 at the end of the first paragraph delete "so fewer tickets were being written." The minutes were approved with the above noted corrections. RECOMMENDATION MEMO TO CITY COUNCIL - REVIEW: The Committee began its review of the draft memo to be submitted to City Council. Update of Parking Needs Study - The Committee suggested the study not proceed until after the new Church Street Self Park opens. David Jennings indicated a revised proposal could be requested only listing the work in the downtown area. The Committee suggested the first proposal be submitted with the memo and the explanation be expanded to indicate why the outlying areas were deleted. The Committee requested the consultant place more emphasis in the future demand analysis on possible impacts of commuter "carpools" and incentives to encourage greater use of public transportation. In response tb a question, Jennings explained why shared use of the 200 private spaces in'the Church Street Self Park would not be possible. Since key card access to the private spaces would be used to separate these spaces, public use would not work. The Committee requested part of the Employer Survey include a question about where employees reside. A listing of zip codes of employees would be useful. Staff indicated the survey would be limited in scope and a better survey may be obtained through a Chamber of Commerce survey or through the City's Planning Department when the downtown inventory of land use is updated. Parking Enforcement Study - Jennings reviewed his memo of October 9, 1989 indicating the Parking Enforcement operations are below full strength by one full-time and two part-time employees, which is unchanged as of a year ago. The "booting" program required two persons from ticket writing operations and one and one-half were added, so the net loss to ticket writing was MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of October 12, 1989......... Page Two one-half person. The boot program has had a very positive impact and collections are up. Jennings indicated we have not performed a comparison of our boot program with programs in other communities. Alderman Rainey indicated the success of our program and noted it would undoubtedly compare favorably if it were compared. In addition to meter enforcement, Parking Enforcement Officers (PEO's) also write tickets for alternate side parking, make court appearances each week, and fill in as school crossing guards when needed. About 30% of the time from April to November, PEO's are not enforcing meter parking. Member Sproul commented that the need for additional PEO's could be justified based on the increased number of cars from 1976 (29,045) to 1988 (42,545). In response to a question, Jennings indicated that Police Officers probably write about 20% of the parking tickets and PEO's about 80%. The Committee requested information on the number of tickets written and income received. Alderman Rainey indicated a report was prepared by Kathy Booth to the Administration and Public Works Committee which contained this information. This report should be attached to the minutes for Committee review. The Committee also considered the productivity of current PEO's and measures to increase their effectiveness (use of lap top computers). Staff indicated a PEO writes about 100 tickets per day. The memo to Council from the Committee would recommend five full-time additional PEO's to increase enforcement. Staff noted that the extra tickets written (in excess of 80,000) would produce an increase in the work load in the Collector's Office. This extra work would probably necessitate an additional employee in that office. The Committee requested that the memo be modified and resubmitted. It should include projected income and costs associated with the proposed PEO's. The memo should only address the Update of the Downtown Parking Needs Study and the recommendation to add additional PEO's. The management study should be pursued in the budget process by the Traffic Engineer. Member Murphy requested the study consider the impact of more enforcement (providing more turnover of spaces) on business. It was noted this might be better performed by the Chamber of Commerce. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:30 P.H. The next meeting of the Committee will be at 6:00 P.H. on Thursday, November 9, 1989 in Room 2403 of the Civic Center. Respectfully submit David K. Barber MINUTES MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of September 21, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, Alex Sproul, David Reynolds and Joan Sable Members Absent: Mark Rivette, Ira Golan, Harvey Pranian, Nels Vexler and Alderman Rainey Staff Present: Barber, Jennings The meeting was called to order at 6:08 P.M. by Chairman Rudy. PARKING NEEDS ASSESSMENT (CONTINUED DISCUSSION) - Member Reynolds questioned previous comments on not spending more money in outlying areas for parking needs assessments. Member Sproul reaffirmed his comments from the previous meeting. Member Sable commented that the Central Street area did not need additional study on parking needs. The Committee agreed more needs to be done in the area of enforcement to make the best use of parking spaces already in place. David Jennings is to prepare a memo on current parking enforcement efforts throughout the city for the next meeting. Member Sable thought the City was providing less parking enforcement. Mr. Jennings indicated that ticket writers were assigned to the Boot Program (both enforcement efforts) so fewer tickets were being written. The Committee noted the last time they recommended more enforcement, City Council responded that many complaints were being received on the number of tickets being issued and the Business Community (Chamber) needs to deal with meter feeders before more enforcement will be forthcoming. The Committee indicated the Chamber has made progress with the meter feeding problem and more enforcement efforts are now appropriate. Staff will prepare a draft memorandum to Council to: (1) Recommend the update of the Parking Needs Study for the Downtown Area ($26,200); (2) Recommend the City conduct a study of Parking Enforcement (staff will prepare scope of work effort); and (3) Recommend additional personnel for parking enforcement. The memo should include updated information on the increased revenue from a new enforcement employee(s) to show where money will come from to fund this position (or positions). This memo is to be ready for review at the October 12, 1989 meeting and hopefully can be ready for Council consideration on October 23, 1989. Member Sproul commented on the need to investigate other measures to encourage people to switch to other modes of transportation (other than single occupied car travel into the Central Business District). He submitted several comments for future consideration. L MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of September 21, 1989......... Page Two Measures to encourage switch to other modes (than single -occupied car to Central Business District); Business: - discourage employer subsidy of parking - discourage meter feeding - encourage subsidy of public transit passes for employees - encourage car pools Garage Management: - increase all -day rates by a factor of 3-5 - offer substantial reduction to registered employees - reserve spaces for car poolers Parking Enforcement: - enforce ordinances against meter feeding and parking more than two hours Auto Registration: - increase auto registration fee Public Transit: - use increased parking/registration revenue to subsidize inbound commuters - improve and subsidize public transit within Evanston Bicycles: bike lanes - more racks downtown Park-N-Ride: - shuttle service from remote lots There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:30 P.K. The next meeting will be at 6:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 12, 1989 in Room 2404 of the Civic Center. Respectfully submitted, I2/ *�& David H. Barber IrF MINUTES MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of November 9, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, Alderman Rainey, Alex Sproul, David Reynolds and Gerald Murphy Members Absent: Mark Rivette, Harvey Pranian, Nels Vexler and Joan Sable Staff Present: Barber, Jacobi and Jennings The meeting was called to order at 6:09 P.M. by Chairman Rudy. Minutes of Meeting of October 12, 1989 - The minutes of the meeting of October 12, 1989 were approved. Recommendation Memo to City Council David Jennings summarized the information in the proposed memorandum to City Council (see attached) and explained the cost analysis attached thereto. The Committee asked if there are that many tickets to write (referring to the additional 96,260 tickets in the cost analysis). Both the Police Chief and Traffic Engineer indicated they felt we have not reached the saturation point. The analysis indicates that if only 75% of the tickets estimated are written, the program would still break even. Alderman Rainey asked if the goal of adding the Parking Enforcement Officers (PEO's) was for increasing revenue or adding enforcement. Alderman Rudy responded that increased enforcement was the motivation for adding PEO's. Chief Jacobi indicated the current PEO's only cover about 20% of the area in any given day. Alex Sproul asked if it would be possible to target an area for increased enforcement (meter feeding) to determine how long it takes until parkers respond and then, after enforcement is reduced, how long until old habits return. David Jennings advised this type of test had been done and it was effective in moving packers, but once enforcement was discontinued, the old habits returned quickly. The Committee was advised of the City Manager's concern over adding 5.5 PEO's to the budget. If revenues are not realized this Would add a strain to an already tight budget. Gerald Murphy commented that he has only seen the financial analysis based on the impact to the City Budget. No one has considered the aspects (financial or other) that stricter enforcement will have on the business community. Some problems are due to supply/demand issues. Alderman Rudy noted that part of the Committee's recommendation to Council is to update the Central Business District Parking Study to address supply/demand issues. Gerald Murphy indicated his support for the Parking Study Update but could not support adding 5.5 PEO's based only on an economic analysis MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of November 9, 1989......... Page Two showing the impact on the City Budget and not on the business community. Mr. Murphy asked how many PEO's we currently have and how many we have had each year for the last ten or so years. Staff will respond to this question. Gerald Murphy stated that Washington National Insurance Company has had problems with parking near their building. Alderman Rainey replied that Washington National has not had problems in the past and has strongly supported not having their employees park on the street. At this point, there was a general discussion about parking and how some of the problems had increased over time. No decisions or motions for change were made. Alderman Rudy asked David Jennings to outline the history of parking on the first floor of the Sherman Avenue Packing Garage. Jennings said that studies performed over the past year found that the first floor was being used primarily by late arriving long-term packers rather than by short-term packers as originally intended. Aldermen Rainey and Rudy questioned the continuation of the restriction in light of all of the studies that have been done. Jim Kepler, a downtown businessman, stated that we seem to be inconveniencing those people who need to park there the most. He gave examples of his customers and other people who could see a full floor of parking, but could not enter the garage due to the 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. restriction. He asked the Committee to support the elimination of the restriction. Mr. Murphy stated that the current plan was enacted in response to the users of the facility and that it should remain in place. Alderman Rainey made a motion to recommend that the Administration and Public Works Committee remove the restriction effective January 1, 1990. David Reynolds seconded. The vote was 4-1 in favor (G. Murphy voting nay). Discussion returned to the matter of support for an update of a parking study by Barton-Aschman Associates to be completed during the next fiscal year. Alderman Rainey moved that a recommendation for this be sent to the Administration and Public Works Committee. Gerald Murphy seconded. The vote was 5-0 in favor. Alderman Rainey then moved that a recommendation for 5.5 additional Parking Enforcement Officers in the 1990-91 fiscal year be taken to the Administration and Public Works Committee. David Reynolds seconded. The vote was 4-1 in favor (G. Murphy voting nay). There was general discussion after the vote that the Committee should meet with the City Manager prior to submitting the recommendation to the Administration and Public Works Committee. Alderman Rudy stated he would try to schedule this and he would invite the Committee members in attendance at this meeting to the meeting with Mr. Asprooth. The meeting adjourned at 7:30 P.M. Respectfully submitted, �0' - - - v 'a, /" David H. Barber Public Works Director MINUTES MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Special Meeting Meeting of November 15, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, Alderman Rainey, Alex Sproul and Gerald Murphy, David Reynolds Members Absent: Mark Rivette, Harvey Pranian, Nels Vexler and Joan Sable Staff Present: Asprooth, Barber, Jacobi, Jennings Others Present: Allison Barkley, President, Chamber of Commerce The meeting was called to order at 12:35 P.M. by Chairman Rudy. Alderman Rudy explained the Committee's position on the need for additional parking enforcement officers. He indicated there were not enough parking enforcement officers to cover all of the areas within the city and that only about 20% of the area was covered in any given day. This was due to additional metered areas as well as the addition of the residential exemption parking districts (REPD's) and the residential only parking districts (RDPD's). Chairman Rudy indicated that there is a need to have people park in accordance with the regulations of the City, i.e., long term parkers parking in long term areas and short term parkers in short term areas, and the additional parking enforcement officers were not necessarily needed for the additional ticket writing but to encourage people to park in those ways desired by the City. It was indicated that the 1985 Parking Needs Study indicated that there is enough short term parking space available if the long terra parkers move from the short terra parking spaces. Alderman Rainey expressed her concern that we need five additional parking enforcement officers now and that the incremental addition of parking enforcement officers would not cover the need and would appear like a drop in the bucket. Alderman Rudy added that in the last ten years there has been a significant number of additional registered vehicles in the city of Evanston and that the additional residential parking districts have increased the need for parking enforcement officers, yet we have not added parking enforcement officers during this period. Traffic Engineer David Jennings indicated that over this period we have added between 2,500 and 3,000 metered parking spaces. Member Alex Sproul indicated he had conducted a survey of his own to determine parking habits in a two block area, the first block being Davis from Benson to Sherman and the second block being Sherman from Davis to Grove. He recorded license numbers of vehicles parked at 9:00 A.M. on these two blocks and indicated that at that time all 48 vehicle spaces were filled, and there was one additional vehicle parked outside of the designated spaces. He returned to the area at noon and 25 of the 48 vehicles packed at 9:00 were still there. Twelve of the 25 were in expired meters and 13 of those vehicles were at meters being fed by the owners. A similar study was conducted on Main Street last week, where he recorded v MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of November 15, 1989......... Page Two license numbers at 11:00 A.H. and 4:00 P.M., and of the 51 spaces in the 800 block of Chicago and the 500 block of Main, 10 vehicles were feeding the meters. It was his summary that there appeared to be some enforcement of meter feeding, but the majority of the enforcement efforts conducted by the parking enforcement officers at this time were on expired meters. He also indicated there was probably no, or very little, enforcement in the residential parking districts. He was not being critical of the parking enforcement officers, but it was his opinion that there are just not enough parking enforcement officers to adequately cover the needs of the City. David Reynolds indicated the same is true in residential districts based on a study he conducted on October 31, 1989. Gerald Murphy and Allison Barkley spoke against adding parking enforcement officers. The Chamber has been trying to educate members and their employees not to feed meters and move long term parkers from short term spaces. The merchants, however, are not pushing their employees. The merchants have indicated they are having problems finding good employees. The Chamber recommended higher fines, rather than adding more parking enforcement officers. The Chamber noted that the reputation of parking enforcement in Evanston has spread beyond our borders, and that our reputation for enforcing parking regulations discourages shoppers from coming to the city of Evanston. David Reynolds indicated that if the meters are for shoppers the addition of a higher fine for expired meters and long term parking did not seem to be consistent with the Chamber's position as previously stated. Alderman Rudy emphasized that part of the reason the meeting was held today was to hear City Manager Asprooth's position on the addition of the five parking enforcement officers as voted on by the Parking Committee at its previous meeting. City Manager Asprooth indicated he does not accept on instinct or faith that the additional parking enforcement officers will pay for themselves through additional tickets. At this point in time we do not need a drain of an already tight budget. Also, City Manager Asprooth indicated he hears a lot of beefing from downtown merchants about the number of tickets written in the downtown area. If we were to add the parking enforcement officers, he indicated that additional enforcement should be directed toward the residential parking districts since they are not being provided adequate enforcement at this time. He indicated we have not found any data to support the proposed increase in the revenue stream by adding additional parking enforcement officers. Alderman Rudy corented that he hears complaints just the opposite from the City Manager, that when the merchants ask for more enforcement, the Police respond that they do not have enough people. Member Gerald Murphy indicated that he previously asked how many parking enforcement officers have been on the payroll during the ten year period of records for registration of vehicles. David Jennings indicated that in 1980 there were 10 parking enforcement officers and there are currently 9.5 in 1989. During this ten year period there have been between 8 and 10 parking enforcement officers on the payroll. Alderman Rainey suggested that the additional five parking enforcement officers be added, and the fine for feeding of meters be increased to $50.00 and the fine for expired meters be decreased to $1.00. MINUTES OF THE MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of November 15, 1989........ :Page Three Member Reynolds asked the Chamber if they would support additional enforcement in the residential parking districts, especially east of downtown. Allison Barkley indicated that they would have to take this suggestion back to the Chamber for a response. At this point Alex Sproul indicated that he would like to discuss the issue of removing the 10:00 A.H. restriction in the Sherman Avenue Garage. The Chairman indicated that was not on the agenda for this meeting and that no discussion would take place at this time. There being no further business before the Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 1:40 P.M. Respectfully submitted, "dH. ber 4Z 4b Public Works Director Minutes MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Meeting of December 14, 1989 Members Present: Alderman Rudy, Alex Sproul, Gerald Murphy Members Absent: Alderman Rainey, Mark Rivette, David Reynolds, Harvey Pranian, Nels Vexler, and Joan Sable Staff Present: Barber, Jacobi, and Jennings The meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by Chairman Rudy. Minutes of Meetinas of November 9 and November 15. 1989 - It was noted that on page two of the minutes of the November 15, 1989 meeting the first sentence (beginning on the third line) should read..."It was his summary that there appeared to be little, if any enforcement of meter feeding, and the majority of the enforcement efforts conducted by the parking enforcement officers at this time were on expired meters." With this change, the minutes of both meetings were approved. Review of Recommendation to City Cot:ncil - Alderman Rudy noted the Committee's recommendations on the CBD Parking Study Update and the addition of 5.5 PEO's was distributed to the City Council on this date and is on the Administration and Public Works Committee Agenda for December 18, 1989. If A & PW approves the recommendation it would be further considered during the Budget Review process in January of next year. Review of Enforcement Study - Activity reports of the parking enforcement officers were analyzed for the period beginning Saturday November 11, 1989 through Friday November 17, 1989. (Six work days). Their efforts were plotted on maps and summarized in tabular form for the Committee's review. (The maps were on display at the meeting and the tabular data are attached to these minutes). The summary of activity only includes PEO's and not ticketing activities of the uniformed officers. David Jennings reviewed the information presented with the Committee. Chief Jacobi, responding to a question, indicated it was not unusual to have only two PEO's working on Saturday and assigning both to the downtown area. In response to previous Committee questions, David Jennings noted that it appears our coverage level is about 19%. The survey shows the production rate (tickets written) appears to be good. David Jennings noted the "desired levels" noted on the study for comparison were generated in-house and are not a City policy or staff recommendation but are only for comparison purposes for this study. The levels used were also based, in part, on staff review of literature discussing enforcement levels in the Los Angeles area. ~ MAYOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PARKING NEEDS Minutes of 12/14/89 . . . Page Two It was noted the average annual production shows each PEO writes about 115 tickets per day. The average for this study was 95 tickets per day. The Committee noted the study does raise the issue of priorities. We seem to be doing a lot of enforcement for expired meters. Maybe we should direct operations to other areas. Chief Jacobi indicated he met with David Jennings on that very issue and their department is to pay more attention to other violations, such as meter feeding, beginning on December 18, 1989. Alex Sproul asked if we could experiment with reducing our level of expired meter enforcement and see what impact it may have on meter revenue. David Jennings said we track revenue in meter blocks of approximately 100 meters each and this request would be possible. It was noted that the average short term parker stays in a space for I hour - 20 minutes. This means one space can provide a place for six (6) vehicles in an eight (8) hour day. Based on rough figures from a small study, if as many as 20% of the spaces (short term) are utilized by long term parkers and increased enforcement can effectively move 40% of the violators, then 500 spaces (20% of 2,500 snort term spaces) are being wasted. Enforcement could free up 200 spaces (40% of 500 spaces occupied by violators) which would make room for 1,200 more vehicles (6 vehicles/8 hour day/space x 200 spaces) each day for short term usage. (G. Murphy arrived at 7:15 p.m.) The Committee requested further information on why some REPD's and ROPD's are in effect an Saturdays. Staff will provide a follow up report on this matter. The Committee briefly discussed the issue of raising the fine for parking (meter feeding) violations. Alex Sproul indicated $30 (from $10) would be an appropriate level for this violation. The Committee needs to address this issue further and decide if a recommendation to change the level is needed. David Jennings distributed an article about how Arlington, Virginia is trying to increase collections from parking ticket skofflaws. (Attached). The meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted, David N. Barber