City to Discuss Whether to Expand Parking Enforcement at Tuesday Meeting

The City Council will discuss at its Tuesday meeting whether or not to shift from a five-day parking enforcement schedule to a seven-day schedule with its current contractor or to instead hire new parking cadets to do the job.

The City agreed to contract to enforce its overnight parking rules with a company called  Inter-Con in April, but later realized that the contract was for just five days a week rather than seven, according to the city's staff report.  The issue was discussed at a July meeting but deferred until a later date.

The Council will now discuss whether or not to keep the five-day contract, expand enforcement to seven days a week via Inter-Con, keep the existing five day contract or hire additional police cadets to do the extra enforcement.

The city is averaging about four tickets a day but staff believes it could average 16 with the full-time enforcement, according to the staff report.  With that level of enforcement, staff estimates the city could bring in about $149,000 in annual revenue.

City staff is recommending that the staff keep the five-day contract in place, avoiding the higher cost of the seven-day contract and the additional costs and delay that come with hiring new employees.

Inter-Con also handles parking enforcement in Pasadena, Alhambra, South Pasadena, San Gabriel, La Verne, Glendora and Covina. The company hires and trains its own personnel. 

Discussion of whether Inter-Con is too aggressive in writing tickets came up back in 2009 when the City of Pasadena was discussing whether or not to renew their contract.

The full report can be viewed here.  The meeting is at 6:30 on Tuesday at City Hall.