09-17-09 Parking Commission MinutesKALISPELL PARKING COMMISSION
MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Date: September 17, 2009
Location: KPC Conference Room
All in attendance:
Chairperson Mark Pirrie, Janet Clark, Ron Trippett,
John Hinchey and Joel Schoknecht.
Jane Howington, City Manager observed meeting.
Roger Krauss, Assistant Chief of Police joined end of meeting
Also present for a short personnel meeting afterward.
Jack Brooks — Attended from 7:34 am to 8:15 am
Minutes recorded by: Rachel Brooks, KPC Office Manager
1. Call to Order:
Called to Order at 7:34 a.m., By: Mark Pirrie, Chairperson
2. Minutes of July, 2009 Board Meeting; No Board Meeting in August
Moved to approve by Janet Clark, Ron Trippett, seconds. Approved by all present.
3. Hearing of the Public:
No One Present
4. Financial Statement of July 2009: End of Year 2008/2009
Discussion followed regarding Audit Fees, Depreciation Expense, and Bad debt. We lost
$40,000. This includes a depreciation expense of $7,000 and our snow plowing this year
was over our budgeted $12,000. This city has made the adjustment on these
already. Moved to approve July by Janet Clark, Joel Schokneckt, second. Approved
by all present.
Financial Statement of August 2009:
Discussion followed. Cash went down; but some major deposits that do not show on
these financials so it should go back up next month. Moved to approve by Janet Clark,
John Hinchey, second. Approved by all present.
5. Updates from KPC:
Street Update — Jack
a) Post Office — Jack talked to Roger about the two parking spaces in front of the Post
Office on 3rd West and 1st West. We have people parking over there since there is no
two hour parking sign and hasn't been one for some time. This hasn't been a
problem up until recently. Discussion followed. Mark talked to Charlie Harball
about it and it is on the docket for Monday.
b) Adding extra permits at the Mountain Valley Lot — It runs in spurts but on the
average there is probably 4-5 that are constantly empty. Discussion followed. Jack
would recommend adding 3 spaces. John Hinchey moves to add 2 permits to sell for
the Mountain Valley Lot. Joel, second.
c) Boot — Jack had some questions regarding the process of notification. When Charlie
laid out the rules Charlie first said jack could just go by and notify the court that we
were going to boot a certain vehicle. If they want to contest this they go to the
court and they request a court date and we take the boot off If they don't appear in
court and they choose to drive a secondary car. We aren't going to be able to get the
secondary car because we are not booting the Individual we are booting the vehicle.
The way Charlie explained it was when they request a court date, the court will hold
that money until the trial is decided. So they will be paying the full amount. What
about the notification process? Later in the last meeting Charlie said we should have
a paper trail. We should fax the court the information. We need something on paper
to give the court before we boot. Rachel will have a form with the information ready
to give the court. Discussion followed.
KPC Office Update — Rachel
a) Tickets, Parking Permits & Meters —
1. Ticket Collections — 334 written.74% collected in August.
2. Parking Permits — August permit revenue was $5,231 in July $4,227 permits were
up $1004 from last month; we were up $1681 from last year. 32 left on the board
from this months sales.
3. Meter Collections — July Pre -Collect $240; Collections was $347.45. July's total
for collections was $587.45. East side capacity remains high while the west side
capacity has dropped.
b) Notices — Current.
c) Meter Project — Meters down $51.46 from last month but were up $78 from last yr.
d) DMV — Still working on it. Trial run again on Friday.
e) Office Construction — No progress yet.
6. Unfinished Business:
Ed Lot Lease — Haven't heard anything from them yet. Mark will call them regarding
this. They have requested one spot for them to park in at the lot. Review of letter we sent
them. Discussion followed.
Building Lease — Nothing new. No news is good news.
Snow Plowing — We have gotten a few snow plow bids but the deadline is September 25,
2009. After that we will choose one and should be set for the season.
Lot Maintenance — Do we want more? Do we want to finish Central School Lot?
Discussion followed. Finish up all the big stuff in Central School in one day and spend
another day on sprucing up all the weeds and re -spraying all the other lots. Only two days
total. No other lot maintenance for the Fall Season.
7. New Business:
Petty John's Water — Request to put a loading zone in front of their business. Discussion
followed. Request denied. Rachel will write a letter to them explaining that we have
denied this request before to other businesses in the past and cannot make an exception.
8. Adiournment:
Adjourned at: 8:45 a.m.
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