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Committee advances $14.1M transportation budget; members press for parking data, permits reform and project timelines
Summary
The Finance Committee forwarded the Transportation Department’s $14.1 million FY26 budget after questioning procurement for a new parking management system, plans to enable means‑tested resident permit pricing, flexible commercial parking corridors and timelines for Main, Broadway and Cambridge Street projects.
The Finance Committee voted to forward the Transportation Department’s FY26 budget — $14,100,000 — to the full City Council with a favorable recommendation after Commissioner Brooke McKenna reviewed operations and procurement plans and answered councilors’ questions on permits, parking inventory and priority road projects.
McKenna told the committee the department recently signed a new contract for a parking management information system that includes functionality to support means‑tested permit pricing. She said the new vendor was engaged and the city is developing the functionality, but it may not be ready for the next renewal season.
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