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[h=1]Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s budget seeks more revenue through parking tickets[/h]
Eric Garcetti caught the attention of voters during last year’s mayoral race when he raised concerns about parking tickets, fines for street sweeping and loading zone violations that anger many residents.
“Tickets should be used to manage parking, not as a revenue source, and that is what I am going to look to do,” Garcetti wrote during a chat session on the website Reddit last year shortly after being elected.
Also during that web chat, he suggested a possible discount on ticket prices if fines were paid early.
In Garcetti’s first budget, parking fines aren’t going to change. A ticket for a street-sweeping violation will remain at $73, for instance.
Additionally, Garcetti is seeking to add 50 part-time traffic officers, in part to bring in revenue for the city. With the additional staff, and a new collection agency, revenue from parking tickets will be boosted by $5 million, budget documents state.
At a briefing Monday, Garcetti acknowledged that ticket prices wouldn’t change but said he has formed a working group to study the issue. “It’s something that still remains a priority for me,” Garcetti told reporters.
For now, Garcetti’s approach to parking officers follows a trend set by his predecessor, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who used 150 part-time traffic officers to help write tickets to bring in revenue. Villaraigosa also repeatedly raised ticket prices over the last decade.
http://www.dailynews.com/government...et-seeks-more-revenue-through-parking-tickets
Typical democrat, more broken promises.
Eric Garcetti caught the attention of voters during last year’s mayoral race when he raised concerns about parking tickets, fines for street sweeping and loading zone violations that anger many residents.
“Tickets should be used to manage parking, not as a revenue source, and that is what I am going to look to do,” Garcetti wrote during a chat session on the website Reddit last year shortly after being elected.
Also during that web chat, he suggested a possible discount on ticket prices if fines were paid early.
In Garcetti’s first budget, parking fines aren’t going to change. A ticket for a street-sweeping violation will remain at $73, for instance.
Additionally, Garcetti is seeking to add 50 part-time traffic officers, in part to bring in revenue for the city. With the additional staff, and a new collection agency, revenue from parking tickets will be boosted by $5 million, budget documents state.
At a briefing Monday, Garcetti acknowledged that ticket prices wouldn’t change but said he has formed a working group to study the issue. “It’s something that still remains a priority for me,” Garcetti told reporters.
For now, Garcetti’s approach to parking officers follows a trend set by his predecessor, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who used 150 part-time traffic officers to help write tickets to bring in revenue. Villaraigosa also repeatedly raised ticket prices over the last decade.
http://www.dailynews.com/government...et-seeks-more-revenue-through-parking-tickets
Typical democrat, more broken promises.