Thursday, March 18, 2010

a request for public information on parking and traffic enforcement income

The following request is for public data, in all cases the request for a total is yearly, based on 2009 or most recent available year.

What is the net income from parking meters?

* How many meters do we have?
* How many kiosques are deployed?
* What do they cost to purchase, install and maintain?
* Do we have a per meter/kiosque hardware, install labor breakdown?
* What does attrition replacement cost?
* What does it cost total to empty them and collect the coins and the credit card funds?

What is the net income from parking violation ticking?

* What is the number of citations given in a year?
* Is there a breakdown on what they are issued for?
* What is the cost of processing the ticket payments?
* What does it cost to issue those tickets in labor and equipment, including vehicles?

What is the net income from moving violations?

* What is the number of citations given in a year?
* Is there a breakdown on what they are issued for?
* What is the cost of processing the ticket payments? Same as for parking tickets?
* What is the percentage of police costs used in moving violations?

What is the net income from towing and confiscating cars?

* What is the gross number of cars towed?
* What is the number of cars towed for outstanding parking citations?
* What percentages of those towed cars are returned to the owners?
* How many cars are seized during sobriety checks for unlicensed drivers?
* What percentage of those seized cars are claimed back and returned to the owners?
* What are the total fees on cars returned to owners?
* What is the total gross income from the auction of unreturned cars?
* What is the split between the tow yard(s) and the city on fees and auction income.

What is the net income from the boot method of collecting outstanding tickets?

* What does the equipment cost to purchase and maintain?
* What is the life cycle?
* What does it cost to deploy?
* What are the gross receipts?

To this entire list, it would be very helpful to know the number and names of the vendors who sell us the parking meters, the ticket kiosks, vehicles, hand held ticket printers, IT services, tow and impound, service and collect funds and provide maintenance services to our equipment.

Don Macleay

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