Denver’s parking meter enforcers have to write a minimum of 75 tickets per day (150 on street-sweeping days). If they go 10-20 minutes without writing a ticket, they have to explain themselves. Write over 100 on a given day, and they stand to get a bonus.
John Oglesby, director of parking management, insisted Thursday the minimums aren’t quotas. The distinction, he said, is that employees are given the opportunity to explain why they failed to meet them.
“It’s not a quota; it’s a performance standard,” Oglesby said.
Prior to September, the ticket writers’ job description had no objective measurement against which to rate their performance, he said, which violates city personnel policy.
Yeah. Right.
27 view(s)
What I hate is when they stand next to a meter that is about to run out.
A buddy of mine got a ticket in Seattle once. He was sitting on his car when the meter expired. He would have left before the meter ran out, but a fire truck, fighting a fire, was blocking his way. Regardless, the meter maid wrote him a ticket and said, “You should have put more quarters in.”
do they have any policy should the number of parking tickets exceed the estimated number of cars that use the meters daily? what if, out of the blue, you suddenly get a parking ticket — when your auto was in the garage all day? what if you don’t have a car? ha. there are no mystery parkers out there, are there?
Seattle has a parking quota! (Read My Lips!)
I’ve recieved three tickets in Seattle over the last 20 years.
With the first two there was still time left on the meters.
I tried to fight them….but who can bring a witness down to assist them with the truth in the middle of a work day?
The last one was last week in the University District.
Parked outside the house of an old lady I take shopping once a week. Apparently, the city just designated the street a “Zone” street. I left the flashers on…the old lady & I were walking down her porch steps a few minutes later to see the meter maid placing a toicket upon my van window.
Did she care at all that I obviously was just picking someone up? Nope! And my payment to the great city of Seattle
for my offense against the municipal code? $44
Greg Nichols ought to be whipped!