10-12-09 Parking Commission MinutesKALISPELL PARKING COMMISSION
MONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Date: October 12, 2009
Location: KPC Conference Room
All in attendance:
Chairperson Mark Pirrie, Janet Clark, Ron Trippett,
John Hinchey and Joel Schoknecht.
Minutes recorded by: Rachel Brooks, KPC Office Manager
1. Call to Order
Called to Order at 7:38 a.m., By: Mark Pirrie, Chairperson
2. Minutes of September 2009 Board Meeting
Moved to approve by Janet Clark, Ron Trippett, seconds. The motion carried.
3. Hearing of the Public:
There were no guests.
4. Financial Statement of September 2009
The budget has gone back up because all of the deposits are in. The balance is back up to $56,189. Ron
Trippett moved and John Hinchey seconded a motion to approve the September financial Statement.
The motion carried.
The first of the season snow plowing and salting was done.
5. Updates from KPC
Street Update — Jack
a) Boot — Jack had some questions regarding the process of notification.
Rachel will have the boot list ready by tomorrow before we go to court.
We need to streamline the process and make sure everyone is on the
same page. We have an addendum to the contract with CPI. Charlie
Harball, the Judge, Police Department and Jack need to make sure they
know what steps to follow when they take the money to the court.
Discussion followed.
b) Signs -Signs by the post office were approved by the City Council. The
Police Chief should be the final authority on signage. Sign and signals has
not been advised about the signs.
c) Ed Lot -Ed lot sign is the responsibility of the Ed lot owner.
d) Machine Repair- If machines or meters break, Jack can repair them
without the Office Manager.
e) Ticket Collections — The ticket and machine collections will continue to be
done together.
KPC Office Update — Rachel
a) Tickets, Parking Permits & Meters —
1. Ticket Collections — 421 written. 99% collected in September. 329 written in
September which was more than last year. Jack varies the time and direction of his
ticketing route.
2. Parking Permits — Permits were down $993.00 from last month; we were up $926.00
from last year. 28 permits left on the board from this month's sales.
b) Prices vary from lot to lot. Glacier Bank turned back some permits but have added more so
they area down slightly from last year. Do we want to address taking over the Glacier Bank
lot?
1. Meter Collections — East side capacity remains high while the west side capacity
remains low. Our capacity is currently just below 100%.
c) Collections report — Our pre -collections are down from last month $ 120.00 and the
collections check was $347.45. They have not been deposited because there were errors.
We have 62 tickets that are uncollectable. The tickets stay with collection for 5 years.
d) Notices — Current.
e) Meter Project — Meters down from last month and from last yr.
f) DMV — We are exporting data to the DMV and importing reports from them.
g) Office Construction — No progress yet.
6. Unfinished Business
Ed Lot Lease — The question is whether to renew the lease or go month to month. Discussion
followed. Mark suggested waiting until some potholes are filled and see what happens after the next
snow fall. The meters are not straight and not repairable.
Maintenance - All Bright is raising their prices. We will find an alternate to do the windows.
All Season's Window Cleaning is reasonable and does an excellent job. Contact Ray Crossree. It was
moved and seconded to cease using All Bright. The motion carried.
Building Lease — The workman showed up but they did not know what to do. They were advised that
Rachel is sick but she knows what work needs to be done. They will return on Monday.
Petty Johns — They received a letter from Rachel denying a request to put in a loading zone. All of their
parking is two hours. We continue to monitor the situation.
Snow Plowing — Schlegel will be doing the snow plowing. They had the low bid. Mark checked their
references which were excellent. A contract has been executed.
7. New Business
In a BID meeting several months ago, Tom Jentz brought up rescinding the "Cash In -Lieu of Fee" if you
cannot add a parking space. The City is looking at removing this ordinance. Discussion followed.
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Should we buy additional meters? They could be a credit card swipe. Should we buy (2) new machines for
Valley Bank and Eagle? The Valley Bank machine is working well and that style is still available.
$36,000 in funds has been ear marked for more parking, not additional meters. We have not been able to
increase our revenues and we had talked about building a parking garage. Option 1: 100% should be for
Eagle box replacement. Option 2: to allocate 50% this budget and 50% from next year's budget to replace
the Valley Bank machine. It was suggested to replace all or some of the Valley Bank lot with meters. The
guts of the housing can be replaced with new meters that take a credit card. Meters could be replaced on a
trial basis. We could add some meters in the O'Neal Lot. The price could be raised to $.50 an hour but we
have to be careful that we do not drive business away.
It was suggested that Kathy Jackson be brought in for several weeks to fill Rachel's position while her
replacement is being selected.
Adjournment
John Hinchey made a motion to adjourn at 8:50 A.M., and it was seconded by Janet Clark.
The motion carried.
Respectfully submitted:
Kathy Jackson
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