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Forest Park proposes parking-amnesty drive and revival of vehicle-booting to recover millions in unpaid citations
Summary
Council heard that staff documented about $1.2 million in uncollected parking citations plus $220,000 in outstanding local citations; the village favored drafting a parking-amnesty program and reinstating a vehicle-boot ordinance to improve collections and deter chronic violators.
S1 told the council that village records show substantial uncollected parking and local ordinance citations and proposed two collection measures: a time-limited parking-amnesty program offering reduced settlements and reinstating the vehicle-boot program suspended during COVID.
"In 2024 alone, we had $1,200,000 in uncollected parking…
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