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San Gabriel signs DataTicket deal to move parking permits to license-plate system
Summary
The council authorized a contract with DataTicket to manage parking citations and transition daily permits to a license-plate system; staff said the city will keep kiosks during a three-month transition and provide in-person help at City Hall.
The San Gabriel City Council voted 5-0 to authorize a contract with DataTicket for parking citation management and to implement a license plate–based parking-permit system. The contract includes a $5,000 annual fee for the permit solution plus per-citation and per-permit charges; citation-management costs are budgeted at $75,000 annually.
Police and finance staff said the change is intended to modernize permit verification and reduce enforcement time. Lieutenant Dan Gosarand told the council that moving to plate-based permits will let enforcement rely on automated reads rather than checking paper permits on vehicle dashboards, eliminating cases where valid paper permits are placed upside down or otherwise unreadable. Finance Director Will Kahulakula said the new system will…
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