Majority Leader Bill Reynolds suggests the City look into installing Kiosks vs. Parking meters. It has become clear that the city is going to get rid of the current two-hour system which seems to not be working. Now it is a question of what to do should the city set up parking meters, Kiosks, or something other.
Personally I think Alderman Reynolds idea is a GREAT one, why stick parking meters all over the place in our historic city, a kiosk could be put up every 100 feet or so rather then every foot, it makes the city look sloppy.
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Two hour parking does work when the law is written and then enforced properly. This needs to include holding those accountable who have received parking tickets.
$400,000 in outstanding parking fines is an insult to the City of Kingston and a slap in the face to City Taxpayers who could have a a lower increase in the taxrate had tickets been collected aggressively.
Once again Alderman Reynolds has thrown up a typical political test balloon by announcing his idea of kiosks without the announcement of costs to the taxpayers for the machines. By the way, kiosks are not a new idea to the City of Kingston. In fact, the Council's Chief "Parking Meter" Cheerleader, Mike Madsen, had proposed kiosks previously.
Parking meters and/or kiosks are a money loser if they are looked upon as a revenue generator alone. $300,000 in parking meter revenue, as proposed by the Mayor, is a pipedream. Unless of course, there will be many more meters than the City had before meters were removed, just two years ago.
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