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New Canaan charter reviewers press to clarify parking commission role, reporting and appeals
Summary
At a Feb. 11 Charter Review Commission Group 1 meeting, members heard from parking-commission representatives and agreed to draft clearer charter language to reflect how the town handles parking operations, appeals and fee recommendations, while checking for any required ordinance or statutory authorizations.
The Charter Review Commission (Group 1) spent much of its Feb. 11 meeting reviewing how New Canaan's parking commission is described in the town charter and whether the charter should be revised to reflect current practice.
Commission members raised three linked questions: whether the charter should adopt the term "parking department" rather than "parking bureau," whether the parking manager's day-to-day reporting line (currently handled through the office of the first selectman, commissioners said) should be named in the charter, and whether the commission's long-standing role in adjudicating parking-ticket appeals is authorized by ordinance as the charter's subsection currently requires.
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