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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC AG PKT 2004-03-22 #C • 4 , • 4 . City of Seal Beach Agenda Report Date: March 22, 2004 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: John B. Bahor City Manager Subject: Review the Installation of Parking Meters along Main Street SUMMARY OF REQUEST: At the March 8, 2004 City Council meeting, the Council agreed to place on the next agenda, an item that would allow the City Council to review the installation of parking meters along Main Street. BACKGROUND: - Staff has compiled the following chronology of events related to the latest effort to implement parking meters on Main Street. Obviously, this is not the entire history of parking meters in Seal Beach; however, it does provide City Council with a history of the most current efforts to install parking meters along Main Street. October 23, 2000 — A parking management committee is formed to address concerns raised by business owners. November 13, 2000 — Resolution 4855 is approved that establishes an Ad Hoc Parking Management Committee. March 12, 2001 — The initial meeting of the Ad Hoc Parking Management Committee. May 14, 2001— The Ad Hoc Parking Committee makes initial recommendations to City Council. Those recommendations are ultimately tabled by City Council on May 29, 2001. June 25, 2001— Staff places an item on the agenda requesting City Council to authorize staff to dedicate the resources necessary to prepare a report on parking meters in the downtown area. The intent of this staff report was to "bring this issue to the Council before expending staff time, and then find there is no interest in this issue ". City Council then directs staff to move forward with the study. Agenda Item C September 9, 2002 - Final Main Street Parking Management Plan is submitted to City Council for approval and staff is directed to proceed with the necessary actions to implement the program. This report includes recommendations to install meters on Main Street, expand the one -hour parking restrictions and options for directing how the future parking meter revenue would be spent. The plan was reviewed by the Ad Hoc Parking Committee and included the changes they requested. City Council approved the Main Street Parking Management Plan, implementing ordinance (3 -2 vote), and took no action on the resolutions related to how the revenues from the parking meters would be allocated. September 23, 2002 — Second reading of Ordinance 1489 approved by City Council on a 3 -2 vote. March 24, 2003 — Budget amendment to provide additional funds to conduct a parking study requested by the California Coastal Commission. January 12, 2004 — Staff places on the January 12 City Council meeting, a response letter to the California Coastal Commission related to the City's pending application. Council approves sending a letter to the Coastal Commission on a 3 -2 vote. January 16, 2004 — Coastal Commission conducts a hearing on the City's application for parking meters and approves a permit to install parking meters. February 9, 2004 — Council approves the purchase of parking meters (3 -2). March 8, 2004 — Reconsideration of parking meters placed on next agenda. March 22, 2004 — Council scheduled to discuss reconsidering the implementation of parking meters. This chronology does not include the numerous publicly noticed meetings conducted by the Ad Hoc Parking Committee. FISCAL IMPACT: Staff, per City Council direction, ordered the parking meters, arranged for the installation of the meters and contracted for the collection of meter money. Due to the request for reconsideration, staff has contacted the three impacted vendors. The installer of the parking meters has verbally indicated that there would be no cost to delay or halt the installation. Staff contacted Ampco Parking, Inc., and indicated to them that the collection contract would not be executed until Council provided staff further direction on the parking meters. The vendor for the meters has indicated that a 25% restocking charge would be assessed if the order were cancelled. At this point in time, the cost of canceling the order is $22,000. Staff has asked the vendor to continue processing those meters that are necessary to replace the out -of -date meters in the Main Street Parking lots. The 239 meters needed for Main Street have been placed on hold until Council discusses whether or not to install the meters. Staff is in a quandary on this issue; because we must follow the direction of the Council majority until such time as the majority of City Council provides new direction. If new direction is given to remove the meters and the meters have already been installed, the City will have the added cost of removing the meters as well as the cost incurred to purchase the parking meters. Under this scenario, the cost could range from $75,000 to $100,000. RECOMMENDATION: Provide staff direction.