Hoboken Parking Utility Makes $75G on LepreCon
The parking utility wrote 838 tickets and spent $6,453.10 in overtime on March 3.
The Hoboken Parking Utility made more money and wrote more tickets on LepreCon on March 3 than during last year's St. Patrick's Day celebrations, according to city documents. On March 3, 838 tickets were written—almost 200 more than in 2011—and 98 cars got boots. The revenue of the boots is $9,800 and the tickets come down to a total of $37,774. Visitors also spent $33,861 by parking in the city's garages on that day. All together, the Parking Utility made $74,981.90 during LepreCon. Most of the tickets were written for not refilling meters (387 tickets) and parking within 25 feet of a crosswalk (217 tickets). One person received a ticket for parking on a sidewalk. Last year's revenue was $60,189.66, according to Parking Director Ian Sacs…
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7:14 pm on Monday, April 2, 2012
Not exactly the best day to claim the parking authority was never intended or set up to make money for the City. Any city operates a parking authority for multiple reasons surrounding parking, traffic efficiency, etc. and of course revenue is part of the equation. Your claim it's new is without merit. Today the predecessor to Director Ian Sacs was sentenced to seven years in prison. He worked to … more ›