02-19-09 Parking Commission MinutesKALISPELL PARKING COMMISSION
MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Date: February 19, 2009
Location: KPC Conference Room
All in attendance:
Chairperson Mark Pirrie, Janet Clark, Bill Goodman,
John Hinchey and Joel Schoknecht
Jack Brooks — Attended from 7:42 am to 7:55 am
Minutes recorded by: Rachel Brooks, KPC Office Manager
1. Call to Order:
Called to Order at 7:33 a.m., By: Mark Pirrie, Chairperson
2. Minutes of January, 2009 Board Meeting:
Moved to approve by Janet Clark, John Hinchey, seconds, Approved by all present.
3. Hearing of the Public:
No One Present
4. Financial Statement of January 2009:
Lot Maintenance - Snow Removal is way over budget and we are not even seeing the February
Bills yet. Revenue is down. Janet forecasted this out in order to meet our budget we will have
to collect revenue on parking permits of $4,382 per month until the end of June and for the
first 7 months we have averaged $2,584.
• Snow Plowing —
January — $5,844.96 (Plowing 7x, Spreading sand 2 xs, and Hauling Snow away)
December - $6,498
Combined total of December ($6,498) and January ($5,844.96) is
*This does not include any billing for February.
• Snow shoveling -
January - $828 (4x shoveling and sanding all lots)
December - $3,295 (Shoveling and sanding up through December)
Combined total of January ($828) and December Total (3,295) is $4,123
*This does not include any billing for February.
• Combined totals for Snow Removal -
Plowing ($12,342.96.) and Shoveling ($4,123) is estimated $16,465.95 up to February.
Discussion followed. Moved to approve by Janet Clark, Bill Goodman, seconds, Approved by all
present.
S. Updates from KPC:
Street Update — Jack
a) Boot Process — Mark talked to Charlie and Judge Ulbricht; the ordinance must be re-
written there are some things that Charlie wants KPC to approach City Council. One
of these is the boot process and the other is the block face ordinance. Discussion
followed. Charlie will need to re -write this ordinance for us so we can present it to
City Council. Mark will call him again.
b) Central School Museum Court Case — Ticket written for the parking space on the
property of Central School Museum. This was protested and went to court; Judge
Ulbricht dismissed the ticket and deemed the Parking Commission needs to remove
this space from Jack's jurisdiction. Janet Clark moved to remove the space on
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Central School Museum's property from Jack's jurisdiction. John Hinchey Seconds.
Approved by all.
c) Hand held ticketer — Jack and Rachel looked into this and it is too expensive for our
budget and it would not help the enforcement of the block face ordinance; in order
to do that he would have to enter every plate on the block when he was out writing
tickets. It just would not be feasible.
KPC Office Update — Rachel
a) Tickets, Parking Permits & Meters — See Reports...
1. Ticket Collections — Tickets up from last month. Jack wrote 378 last January
he wrote 366.
2. Parking Permits — Down we have had several left on the board the last 2
months. This month there was 23 unsold. Last month we had 31 unsold. We
were down $1,779 Last month. Glacier Bank will be renewing this month.
3. Meter Collections — Up $1.43 from last month. Down $294.78 from last year.
b) Notices — Still working on January; will finally be set up to run every seven days
hopefully in March.
c) Collections— $174 came in from collections. Behind waiting on Mike from CPI for
Report Finalizations. Ticket write off was a little higher than usual due to
uncollectible tickets but we have reduced this every year since 2007.
d) Meter Project — Sold 3 meters for $90 this month to Bob Denning the auditor.
e) Computer system — Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel a few things
are getting easier.
f) Copy/Fax — We now have a fax line (Fax number is 755-5306) Erica has set it up
where we can use the Fax and copy features and it is networked into the computer
but the scan function is not installing properly so she will continue to try and get
that working for us.
6. Unfinished Business:
a) Valley Bank Lot Exchange — We really need to stay on top of this regarding number
of spaces and what we are losing with this proposal. We are losing 6 spaces. We
need to stay really aware of this and the issue of this lot being in the midst of two
free parking areas and who is going to maintain it etc. We don't want to lose any
spaces._Discussion followed.
b) Building Lease — They have filed a summary motion and they have served us but did
not serve anyone else in the building and now they have to go back and serve the
rest before we can go forward. Bill will forward all the documents to Mark Pirrie and
Mark will handle this issue from this point forward.
7. New Business:
a) Bill Goodman's Resignation — KPC board has all received a copy as well as Teresa
White, City Clerk. Discussion Followed.
b) Glacier Bank Lot — John Hinchey has noticed that this lot is packed with employee
cars. John Hinchey volunteered to talk with Jim Ness about a contract with us to
enforce this lot.
8. Adiournment•
Adjourned at: 8:35 a.m., Motion to Adjourn made by: Bill Goodman, Second by Joel
Schoknecht.
The mission of the Kalispell Parking Commission is to effectively manage the parking inventory in order to adequately
Meet the needs of downtown's customers, employees, visitors, and residents.
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