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Committee considers $7 blended overage rate for Hotel Indigo; seeks cap and validation fixes
Summary
The parking committee discussed an amendment to the Hotel Indigo memorandum of understanding to permit billing a $7 per-day blended overage for cars beyond the 55 allotted places; members asked staff to review historical overage days and to seek a cap to protect non-hotel parkers.
The committee opened discussion on amending the Hotel Indigo memorandum of understanding to allow billing a blended $7 per day for cars beyond the hotel's allotted 55 monthly parkers, and asked staff to review overage days and discuss caps with the hotel.
Sheila Vaccaro, chair of the Parking Committee, introduced the item as an amendment proposal: "we have the 55 spaces allotted to Hotel Indigo" and described the proposed $7 per day per car overage charge. The $7 rate was presented as a blended amount to reflect partial-day stays and to be lower than a full daily transient fee.
Kristen Camp and Colonial representatives were referenced as having reviewed the MOU draft; Colonial's Jed Hatfield noted the $7 blended rate is higher than the average ticket amount. Hatfield said, "the $7 rate is double what the average ticket amount is," noting the blended fee remains a higher-value ticket compared with short-term averages.
Committee members pressed for additional protections for non-hotel parkers and asked staff to examine the specific days when the garage exceeded 55 Hotel Indigo parkers. One committee member suggested setting a higher cap (for example, billing up to a certain threshold such as 70 cars, then a different treatment beyond that) to prevent a hotel having de facto exclusive access to the garage. Staff said they would "go back and look at the few days where they have exceeded the 55 and look at those numbers and talk to them," and would return with a recommended cap or amendment.
On enforcement and validation, staff explained that currently validated hotel tickets are not stopped at entry and there is no immediate in-system way to limit validations once issued; however, the vendor has tablet technology that can issue a single multi-entry validation, and the hotel has not yet implemented that tablet. Staff told the committee they want to avoid losing short-term revenue and to keep garage access available for non-hotel users.
Next steps: staff will review recent overage days, discuss reasonable caps and billing approaches with Hotel Indigo, and bring a proposed amendment back to the committee (with the goal of interim billing where possible while the final MOU is negotiated). The committee indicated a desire to begin billing for overages in the near term while final terms are negotiated.
Sources: Committee discussion and vendor remarks during the meeting.
