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Board names Administrative Review Board chair, reviews appeal process for parking citations
Summary
The Transportation Advisory Board appointed members and alternates to its Administrative Review Board and heard a briefing from the parking manager on the three-tier appeal process for parking citations, including timelines, meeting frequency and current backlog.
The Transportation Advisory Board on April 22 appointed panelists and alternates to serve on the Administrative Review Board (ARB), the city panel that reviews parking-citation appeals. The board moved and approved a slate that names a board member as ARB chair and designates Rio Roland and others as members, with Grace Gilbert and Simon Rusinski serving as alternates.
Nick Fokin, the city's parking manager, briefed the board on how the ARB fits into the citation-appeal process. "There are three levels to an appeal process here within the city of Bozeman," he said: the initial administrative review (handled by the parking manager), the ARB (a three-member panel drawn from TAB), and judicial review. Fokin explained that individuals have 10 business days to request an initial administrative review and 15 business days after that decision to request an ARB hearing; following ARB decisions, individuals have 30 calendar days to petition for judicial review.
Fokin said ARB meetings are tentatively held once a month depending on demand; at the time of the April meeting he reported roughly six citations were in the ARB queue with the oldest dating to August 2025. He said the department issued a little over 38,000 parking contacts last year and estimated roughly 30% of citations are contested at some level, though he could not give an exact number for how many ultimately reach the ARB.
Board members discussed candidate availability and scheduling; the motion to appoint an ARB chair and a slate of members and alternates passed by voice vote. The ARB can affirm, modify or dismiss citation amounts after hearing an appeal; if unhappy, appellants can pursue judicial review limited to ensuring the Bozeman Municipal Code was followed.
Fokin said the ARB hearing is not a typical courtroom proceeding—there is no swearing in and a judge reviewing a later petition generally reviews records rather than conducting live testimony. The board recommended confirming panel availability in advance of scheduled ARB meetings to avoid postponements.
