Taken from the roll call in the town’s own minutes. The minutes record who was not there and almost never why.
What was decided (2 motions)
1 carried, 1 recorded otherwise. Every motion below is printed as the minutes print it.
WHEREAS the current mandate of the Municipal Parking Management Program works on a cost-recovery model with surplus revenues of up to $23 million can only be reinvested in the Municipal Parking Management Program for future capital and operational investments; WHEREAS the City asked MNP Ltd. to provide an independent governance review of parking operations, including preparing a business case on the available governance options to review the current model; WHEREAS the Governance Review Report as presented by MNP Ltd. recommends maintaining the current governance structure as the best aligned with the City’s new MPMS, the Modified Municipal Delivery, a City program that will deliver Parking Services under a non-profit, self-sustaining model and directs surplus revenue to fund transportation related activities in alignment with the MPMS and the Parking Reserve Fund; WHEREAS Parking revenue is not used to benefit the whole city or council priorities; WHEREAS Hydro Ottawa have demonstrated the value in return for a dividend to the city where council can define where its best allocated; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Transportation Committee recommend Council approve an additional option whereby a non-for-profit is used to collect all parking revenue in a similar delivery system as Hydro Ottawa (Option 3) be reviewed or developed. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the revenue collected can be reverted back to the City in the form of a dividend to be reallocated to General Revenue or counc
Moved by Councillor M. Fleury
Lost
WHEREAS, as part of the refresh of the Municipal Parking Management Strategy (MPMS), staff recommends that Council establish a $20 million maximum balance for the City’s Parking Reserve Fund to ensure the fund does not grow beyond forecasted requirements; and WHEREAS the 2018 balance in the Parking Reserve Fund was $24 million, and is forecast to be close to that amount for 2019; and WHEREAS staff is also recommending that any amount in the Parking Reserve Fund in excess of the maximum will be contributed to City capital accounts related to MPMS objectives as follows: Park & Ride Lots (acquisition, development, expansion); and curb, sidewalk and parking lane lifecycle costs (in paid parking areas); and WHEREAS staff has advised that there are projects currently underway that would be eligible to receive those surplus funds, and the application of the parking reserve funds to eligible projects would result in the return of an equivalent amount to the City-wide reserve fund; and WHEREAS, in response to Council direction, staff is bringing forward a recommended Strategic Road Safety Action Plan for Committee and Council consideration later in 2019; and WHEREAS the Strategic Road Safety Action Plan report will recommend priority road safety investments, over five years, based on Vision Zero principles and funded from growth in automated enforcement revenues (e.g. red light cameras, speed cameras, school bus violation cameras, etc.); and WHEREAS there is expected to be a gap in ti