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Council greenlights moving ahead with mobile parking vendor and discusses raising parking penalties
Summary
Council directed staff to pursue a contract with a mobile parking vendor to replace aging coin meters and enable phone payments; members also asked staff to prepare an ordinance to revisit meter rates and parking‑violation fines.
Hollidaysburg’s parking committee recommended and council agreed to move forward with contracting for a mobile parking system that would let visitors pay by phone, provide enforcement staff with electronic enforcement tools, and eventually phase out obsolete coin meters.
Committee members said the borough’s physical meters are obsolete and replacement parts are scarce; a preferred vendor (identified in the presentation as JustPark) offered a licensing fee estimated at roughly $2,300 and a fee structure in which the vendor takes a per‑ticket service amount (an example of $4 per ticket was discussed). Committee members said the borough would retain the majority of parking revenue after vendor fees and recommended drafting an ordinance to adjust parking meter and violation rates to encourage turnover and achieve a target of about 20% availability on peak days.
Council asked staff to prepare a contract for committee and solicitor review and to return with a draft ordinance addressing parking rates and enforcement. Members discussed potential tariff ranges for violation fines (committee discussed $15 as an example) and asked staff to ensure enforcement and fine levels do not create perverse incentives for illegal parking.
