Council Member Mark Jeffries asks administration for resources to remove broken parking meters

Council Member Mark Jeffries asked the Cincinnati City Council committee to request from the administration an estimate of funding and staff resources needed to remove the city’s remaining broken parking meters, saying the devices are "a symbol of blight" that reduce parking turnover and city revenue.

Jeffries described the motion as a follow-up to a prior administration report that, in his words, noted "between 708 hundred broken parking meters" across the city. He told the committee that, according to Director Riley, the administration has already removed about 350 meters this year and asked what additional resources would be required to finish the work during the budget process. "These are a symbol of blight," Jeffries said, and they contribute to lost parking revenue in some neighborhoods.

Chair Mika Owens, who opened the meeting and led the committee, moved the item forward and the committee "without objection" passed the request along for administrative follow-up. Owens added, briefly, "We like revenue."

The committee did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript; the chair’s statement that the item would be passed along indicates the motion was forwarded to the administration for further information. The administration is expected to report specific cost and staffing estimates as part of budget deliberations or a scheduled follow-up, but no date or deadline was specified in the transcript.