2012-12-03 Downtown Parking Advisory Committee MinutEDMONDS PARKING COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
December 03, 2012, 3:30 PM
Present: Debbie Dawson, Joan Ferebee, Bertrand Hauss, Adrienne Fraley-
Monillas, Kristiana Johnson, David Thorpe, Ron Wambolt and Karen Wiggins.
The meeting was called to order at 3:35 PM with the minutes from October 29,
2012 being approved.
Rideshare (9) and Employee Parking Permits (383) held the same as last month.
There were 108 tickets written in October.
Joan Ferebee, Edmonds Court Administrator, came to the meeting to talk about
Edmonds policy that allows people with parking tickets to only pay half of the
amount of the ticket if it is paid within 24 hours. A State audit had concerns
about how this process worked. Say a ticket is written on a Friday night, it might
not get into the system for a day or two, which can cause a delay for the person
to pay on that ticket. The State auditor said this process "must improve". Upon
discussion the committee decided the best thing to do was to eliminate the half
off discount on parking tickets. Adrienne will forward this information to the City
attorney.
• The surveys are to be sent out to the citizens along 200t" Street SW (across
the street from Maplewood Elementary) and the results will be given at the
January meeting.
• 75t" Ave. W by Haynes Wharf Park will have no changes in parking or
signage as the results of the survey went 50/50.
■ Park Road survey came back with 5 of the 7 saying they wanted no change.
Bertrand will bring more information to the January meeting.
There was more talk about time limits on disabled parking spaces. Adrienne
brought information on Washington State law about parking for persons with
disabilities. She had also talked to the Cities of Mountlake Terrace, Lynnwood,
Shoreline and Mukilteo about their policy. 72 hour limit was discussed and the
committee will need more information on that from the Edmonds City attorney
along with more research on this topic. The committee would like to be able to
tow extended violators even if they have a handicap placard. This will be
extended to the January meeting.
At the end of the meeting Karen asked Debbie what the status was on the
enhanced ticketing system. Debbie mentioned that the Police department,
finance, IT and the court all play a roll and right now everything is on hold. Karen
asked that the Mayor know and understand this situation in hopes of getting
some movement on this. Adrienne said that she would talk to the Mayor on this
subject.
Meeting was adjourned at 4:33 PM
Next meeting is on January 07, 2013