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Lowell City officials question parking-rate posting after website lists only monthly pass increases
Summary
At a meeting, officials sought clarification after the city website posted monthly pass rates set to take effect tomorrow while omitting hourly/transient rates that an ordinance says must rise together on July 1.
A committee member raised concerns that Lowell City's website lists monthly parking pass rates set to take effect tomorrow but does not show corresponding hourly (transient) rates, which the committee member said the city's ordinance requires to rise by the same percentage on July 1.
"First, I would like to understand the rates that are posted on the city website to go into effect tomorrow are just the monthly rates. The hourly rates are not mentioned on the website," the committee member said, asking for clarification from the city manager or Mr. Ryan.
CFO Baldwin deferred to parking operations and asked the parking director to clarify. The parking director responded: "the rates were going up uh uh on the pass cards only. We have not raised the transient rates." The committee member replied that this response appeared inconsistent with the ordinance, saying, "the ordinance clearly provides that both sets are supposed to go up as of July 1st of each year."
Meeting participants did not record a formal vote or decision in the transcript. The exchange left the committee seeking clarification about whether the website posting and the staff implementation align with the ordinance's July 1 timing and the requirement that both pass-card and hourly rates change by the same percentage.
Next steps were not recorded in the transcript provided; no ordinance number or formal motion was cited during the exchange.
