6.1.A. SR 11-20-2006 - Laserfiche WebLink

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~ River Police Department MEMORANDUM TO: Scott Clark Jeffrey A. Beahen, Chief of Police 10-17 -06 FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Downtown Parking Attached is the current list of residential and business parking permits issued for downtown Elk. River effective today. As you can see, there are currently 339 permits issued for employees and 9 permits issued for residential parking. Some of these permits are duplicates, as the employee drives or own more than one car. Initially we set it up where only one permit was issued to each employee and they were responsible for transferring it from car to car. We discovered though, that in the world of multiple car families, the permit often left with another family member in one car, leaving the employee with the "spare" car and no permit. Issuing additional permits resolved that issue. The permits are issued upon request, there is no fee. Employees can either stop by here and get the application, we can mail it out to them or with the larger businesses - they have applications on hand to distribute to their employees. The completed application is returned to our office, the information is entered into our records database, and the permit issued is recorded and sent to the employee. The downside to our process is that there is no system of check and balance built into the permit system. We don't carry spreadsheets with us during parking enforcement times to compare permit numbers to insure that they match with the license number and vehicle. We have also never verified with the businesses that the permit and employee are still part of . that business. We have put our faith into the business community and we rely on their honesty to self police the permit process. There is no indicium that this self-co!lstabularv process is not workin~. Alternatives would be charging a fee for permits to help cover additional staff time should we decide to monitor the permits more closely, re-issuance of the permits each year to promote greater accuracy in the process, or to actually follow-up on a frequent basis, with each of the permit holders or the businesses, to verify validity of each permit.