05-18-06 Parking Commission MinutesMONTHLY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
KALISPELL PARKING COMMISSION
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Location: Conference Room, KPC Office
All in attendance:
Mark Pirrie, Chairman, Janet Clark, Richard Nelson, John Hinchey and Bill Goodman
Minutes recorded by: Rachel Brooks, Office Manager
1. Call to Order:
Called to Order at: 7:45 a.m., By: Mark Pirrie, Chairman
2. Minutes of April, 2006 Board Meeting:
Moved to approve Janet Clark, Bill Goodman seconds, Approved by all present.
3. Hearing of the Public:
No One Present
4. Financial Statements of April 2006:
KPC is right on budget, we are not bringing in more revenue, but we are keeping our expenses
down. Moved to approve Janet Clark, Bill Goodman seconds, Approved by all present.
S. Updates from KPC office:
TICKETS:
Jack wrote 373 tickets in April and 41% were collected
Same time last year KPC wrote 366 tickets and 46% were collected
KPC wrote off $468.52 in tickets this month
NOTICES: All finished for April — Total value sent out to collect were — Local - $1500,
Out of Town - $840, and total value was $2340. This is down a little from last month but will
pick up next month.
PARKING PERMITS:
Parking Permit Revenue this month was $7,561.50. Permits are down this month. (Summer)
Parking Permit Revenue last month was $13,961.50
Parking Permit Revenue last year at this time was $5,693.00
CONTRACTOR PERMITS
Contractor permit revenue this month was - $194.00 See Report
METERS:
Meter collection was $1,743.57 for April. Meters were down this month
Meter collection for last month was $2069.86.
Meter collection for last year at this time was $1725.68.
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE. $9,775.82
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6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
A. Library Work Order — Work Order turned in to public works. Chief Garner has some
questions about this work order. Eagle transit needs more space to pull in and
park. KPC will look at this again and discuss it with Chief Garner, and Jim Patrick,
City Manager on Tuesday at their meeting. KPC may need to re -arrange the
spaces around that were slotted in the original work order.
B. Lot Landscaping Bids — Given to Mark to approve they should be starting on 5/15/06.
Janet reported that 4 Seasons Lot service has begun on the Eagles.
C. Painting & Sweeping Bids — Gave bids to Mark. KPC needs to select one and coordinate
set up. KPC Board looked over the bids. Mark will call Black Magic and speak
with them about doing the painting and sweeping. Painting needs to be
coordinated for the Eagles Lot to be marked off on Saturday night and painted
on Sunday afternoon or evening due to the Kalispell Grand Parking for the Hotel.
D. Permit Policy, Permit Sign up, Permit Renewal form — See Examples. Discussion
followed. All forms need work and more time than what was left in the meeting.
Mark will have Rachel E-mail forms to everyone to look over. Board members will
look these forms over and E-mail the changes to Rachel.
E. KPC letter to the Mayor — Un-discussed Copy of the letter included in packets.
7. NEW BUSINESS:
A. Downtown Parking — KPC Guests, Jim Patrick- City Manager, Tom Jens — City Planning
Office, and PJ Sorenson — City Planning Office. Discussion Follows:
The present ordinance requires 1 parking space for every 400 Sq. Ft. additional building
space down town. In Lieu of this a fee is to be set by the City Planning office
that will be based on the cost of providing a space and the maintenance required. The
approximation was guessed to be around $7,000 - $7,500, but the fee will be based
upon actual cost as per the City Manager, Jim Patrick.
Bill Goodman made a recommendation for the Kalispell Parking Commission to support
dropping the parking requirements in the current ordinance and accepting payment in
lieu of, tying it with the intent of the parking study to see if the parking structure would
be the solution to the shortage and proceed in that direction if the study should show it.
Janet Clark, second the motion.
KPC Guests, Jim Patrick, Tom Jens, and PJ Sorenson, excused themselves and left the
meeting at this point.
B. Dealing with Difficult People seminar- Discussion followed. No, if the city would
still like Jack and Rachel to go they would need to provide funds for this, KPC
will not provide for this.
8. Adiournment•
Motion to adjourn made by: Bill Goodman, Janet Clark Second.
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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