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Flagstaff staff outline plan to fund downtown cleanup and services through parking-fee increase
Summary
City staff and downtown business leaders proposed using a parking-rate increase, one-time ParkFlag funds and existing tourism/beautification money to pay a contracted vendor for enhanced downtown cleaning, restroom maintenance, snow removal and other services. Council asked staff to run a detailed rate analysis and return with specifics.
City staff and downtown business leaders laid out a plan Friday to pay for more frequent cleaning, restroom maintenance, snow and alley clearing and other streetscape upkeep by dedicating new parking revenues and existing tourism/beautification funds to an outside contractor.
The proposal centers on modest increases to ParkFlag hourly rates that would flow to a parking lockbox; under staff estimates, a 50-cent increase would produce roughly $294,000 a year for contracted downtown services, a 75-cent increase about $440,000, and a variable weekday/weekend increase about $380,000. Dave McIntyre, community investment director, said the city also has about $300,000 in one-time ParkFlag funds that could seed a contract so enhanced services can begin before any rate change takes effect.
Why it matters: Downtown businesses and tourism leaders said improved maintenance would…
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