02-21-08 Parking Commission MinutesMONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
KALISPELL PARKING COMMISSION
Date: February 21, 2008
Location: Conference Room, KPC Office
All in attendance:
Mark Pirrie, Chairperson, Janet Clark, Bill Goodman,
John Hinchey, and Joel Schoknecht.
Minutes recorded by: Rachel Brooks, Office Manager
1. Call to Order:
Called to Order at: 7:37 a.m., By: Mark Pirrie, Chairperson
2. Minutes of January, 2008 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, 2008:
Moved to approve by Janet Clark, John Hinchey seconds, Approved by all present.
S. Updates from KPC office:
Tickets, Parking Permits & Meters — See Reports. Permit sales down in January.
Notices —December and January all caught up. February is current.
Summons — Booted Chuck Olson on 2/20/08 He paid all fines and is current.
Collections & Garnishments — Continue to collect money and close outstanding court cases.
Collections entered and current for December. January collections ready to enter.
DMV/MT GOV —Logging into DMV directly, they have not set up the new system and it has
been put off for another 3 weeks. We are set up to use MT.GOV website if needed.
Meter Project — Finished. We need to sell them now. Rachel has called Melba to get some
price estimates and we have a gentleman who wants to purchase some of the pieces and
parts. His name is Mike Craven. Rachel will continue on working on this project.
6. Unfinished Business:
Summons vs. Collections — We have contacted Michael and are reported to the credit bureau's
if they have $50 or more in debt. We have not officially decided whether we are continuing
with summons or going to full collections process.
Peccia — Update from Bill. Letter was sent requesting data sheets and spread sheet. This has
been provided to us. We can now collect some more data samples. We have already learned
that we have plenty of short term parking in most places; it is the long term parking that
seems to be a huge short supply. The lots are already running at 110% capacity now. There
will also be a small bill coming from Peccia; but we are still w/in our budget.
Spring Lot Cleaning & Striping — Rachel hasn't had time to get this in rolling yet; will continue
working on it so we can have some bids by next month. We will want to start the cleaning in
April.
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Office Lease 2008 — Update from Mark. Mark is meeting with Craig on Friday. We are going to
try and get a ten year lease with a ten year option as well as get the back room included in
the lease. Janet moved to empower Mark to sign a new lease for 2008 with additional space
for $75 a month increase in our rent. Bill Seconds. Approved by all.
7. New Business:
Snow Removal Bill - Double Diamond bill was really high ($6,850 with around $2700 for snow
pile removal) that is $7,725 for the season so far. Last season we only paid $5,083. Rachel will
keep on top of it and keep Mark informed of results. They did not do a very good job this year
and they are getting there too late after the cars are already parked. The City needs to plow
the Streets in front of Central School and to the side of Linderman at the Northeast lot. We
have had a lot of complaints this year from customers. We need to have Jim Patrick and Jim
Hansz at our next meeting so they can include some of this in their budgets for next year.
City Council work session on Parking — Possibly within the next month or so. They will be
discussing general parking. As soon as we know when this session is scheduled we will notify
the board. Rachel is getting lots of requests from city employees and the fire department for
permits in the Central School lot, Mountain Valley, and Methodist lot. KCFW has also been
requesting permits in the same area. The reason in the past that we decided not to oversell
the Mountain Valley lot is that it is too full and we were getting constant complaints. We will
increase the lot by 2 spaces but not go the full 10% and watch it for the next few months. On
the 281" we will increase by two. The same rules apply it is first come first serve open sales to
all; normal procedure. We have to keep consistency in our procedures.
Downtown Re -development plans 1979 — City put this together when it started the Tiff District.
Identified in it are two different parking structures one being behind the Kalispell Grand the
other being right beside the KM Building Lot and out over City Hall. There is a 450 car parking
structure drawn in as well as a 250 car parking structure. There should be some In -Lieu of
money coming in from the Salvation Army building. We will ask Jim Patrick about this next
meeting. Discussion followed.
8. Adiournment•
Adjourned at: 8:25 a.m., Motion to Adjourn made by: Janet Clark, Second by Bill Goodman.
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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