06-19-08 Parking Commission MinutesMONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
KALISPELL PARKING COMMISSION
Date: June 19, 2008
Location: Conference Room, City Hall
All in attendance:
Mark Pirrie, Chairperson, Bill Goodman, Joel Schoknecht.
Janet Clark, and John Hinchey, absent.
Jack Brooks present until 8:05 am
Minutes recorded by: Rachel Brooks, Office Manager
1. Call to Order:
Called to Order at: 8:38 a.m., By: Mark Pirrie, Chairperson
2. Minutes of May, 2008 Board Meeting:
Moved to approve by Bill Goodman, Joel Schoknect, seconds, Approved by all present.
3. Hearing of the Public:
No One Present
4. Financial Statement of May, 2008:
Moved to approve by Bill Goodman, Joel Schoknect, seconds, Approved by all present.
S. Updates from KPC:
Street update — Jack
a) Number of tickets written -down this month due to rain. The chalk mark comes off in
the rain and ticket won't hold up in court. Discussion followed.
b) Block Face Ordinance — Kalispell needs block face ordinance. So people would have
to move their cars around the block not just move one space.
c) Survey on the street — Long term parkers in short term spaces.... numbers have not
really changed they run from 90-120. These are every day cars. Bill Goodman
mentioned that he has a tenant (Violence Free Crisis Line) that is moving out
because their handicapped volunteers have no where to park for more than 2 hours
at a time due to the city ordinance being the handicapped spaces are subject to the
same time limits as the regular spaces. They were rocking and rolling in front of the
street in front of the KM Building and this practice was against the lease terms.
d) Rate increase on ticket machines — It's been a long time since we increased these.
Jack agreed that prices need to raised, but felt that permit holders using their
permits the right way shouldn't have to bear the brunt of the whole rate increase.
The increase may need to be shared by those who get the tickets, as well as
increasing the price of the ticket machines. If we did raise ticket prices it will drive
those who are not utilizing their permits back into the lots. Discussion followed. We
could match the city's rate of $15 per ticket or even a $2 increase. We have not
raised ticket prices in 8 years. Mark asked for this to be brought up for discussion
again in the July meeting.
e) Numbering spaces on the street — We do not have an accurate count of the spaces
we have downtown because it varies to the size of the car. If they were lined we
could get a count of what is available.
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f) Scooters, Bicycles and Motorcycles — This is a need for safety as well as parking.
Several of them park in between cars and Jack is unable to tag them. We need to
look at some areas we can designate in the future for motorcycle parking. Possibly
some spaces at the end of a block. We always have more in the summer months
and with gas prices what they are we are seeing more. Joes suggested taking 30
minute spaces and changing the signs during the summer months.
g) Eagles Lot machine — Increasingly breaking due to power fluxes etc. and we have to
get the PDA to reset the machine. This year alone we have done this 3 times. Mark
asked us to call to see if there was a solution. Jack called Richard Anslow and he
suggested some adjustments on the coin slot. Jack made the adjustments and we
are still having coin jams. The sensors on the coin boxes also need periodic
adjustment. This is a design flaw. A new one would have the same problems. To
get the PDA it doesn't cost us anything but when the machine is down we lose the
money we would collect while it is down and it costs us $62 every time we ship the
PDA back to Duncan. We need to put this into next year's budget. Rachel will check
into PDA prices and the minimum requirements.
KPC Office update — Rachel
a) Tickets, Parking Permits & Meters — Notices — Current.
b) Collections & Garnishments — Collections — We are waiting for a check that was
messed up back in March. We have assigned $7,933.00 to collections this year. We
have collected $1800 so far. Some of those cases are 3 years old and harder to
track down and collect on. Garnishments — Only two cases left with them all other
cases cleared up or sent to collections.
c) Meter Project — Meters are priced and we will start selling them July 1, this way they
will be on next fiscal year financials.
d) Computer system — Quickbooks ends on July 1 from this point on everything will be
going into the Aims System.
e) Office Construction- All the walls have been torn down; new walls and shelves going
up. It is progressing.
6. Unfinished Business:
Lot Maintenance — position has been filled we hired two people; they started last week.
Sweeping and painting — they have swept all lots but Eagles and Skyline. They want to seal
the two of them. As far as the painting and the seal coating we are probably going to have to
wait until after Labor Day. It has been rainy so they weren't able to get into there until now.
This process will take 3 days. It has to be cleaned, processed, and it has to cure for 24 hours.
We will go ahead and do the skyline lot on a weekend, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday we will
close the lot. Jack will not ticket SL permits on the street and Rachel will notify them ahead of
time.
Rachel's contract Finalized — Janet has this on her computer. Need to change the insurance
portion and update it.
Ed Lot Contract Renewal — Since the Lot is up for sale Mark suggested we let it be and just let
it roll from month to month. What does the contract say regarding this? Bill reviewed the
lease ... and it does not say anything about extensions or month to month so we are fine just
leaving it as a month to month. Approved by all present.
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Cushman that was sold at Creston Auction — was the City's property. It was bought by the PD
a long time ago.
7. New Business:
Valley Bank machine bill acceptor needs to be upgraded; it is so old they do not carry
replacement parts for it anymore. The new one does not take the new 5 dollar bills. Everyone
has been upgrading due to the current one due to the $5 bill issue. Roy said he would give us
a deal. If we upgraded now instead of $1500 we could get it for $747.80. We may not even
have to do it all. We may just have to upgrade the current 1$ acceptor and it will only cost us
$168. Jack and I have to go down and check the machine to see which one we needs.
8. Adiournment•
Adjourned at: 8:25 a.m., Motion to Adjourn made by: Bill Goodman, Second by Joel
Schoknect.
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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