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Recommendation to Reorganize the City's Parking Management Program and Parking Fund;
Adoption of Resolution Amending the Fiscal Year 2021-22 Parking Fund Budget to Restructure the Parking Fund; and
Adoption of Resolution Amending the Salary Schedule for the Alameda City Employees Association (ACEA) and the Alameda Police Officers Association, Non-Sworn (PANS) to Move the Two Parking Enforcement Positions from PANS to ACEA and Reassign Two Full-Time Parking Enforcement Position Allocations from the Police Department to Public Works. (Public Works 265) [Not heard on November 2, 2021]
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda (City) must actively manage its public parking and curb space to achieve City Council-adopted goals related to transportation management, climate change, environmental protection, traffic safety, and economic development. The Alameda Point Transportation Management Plan, Transportation Choices Plan, and Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP) require parking management to reduce traffic, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ensure access to services and facilities, and support the vitality of the City's two main street commercial areas.
In 2019 and early 2020, the City Council held a series of public hearings to improve the City's parking management and enforcement program to address program deficiencies and establish a path forward to enable the management of the City's three ferry terminal parking lots. At those meetings, the City Council approved two new full-time, non-sworn parking enforcement positions for the Police Department, a Parking Enforcement Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Policy, and a series of Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) amendments to improve the parking program.
The COVID pandemic caused staff to delay implementation of parking fees at the ferry terminals and postpone hiring the two full time enforcement positions. The City's COVID response also resulte...
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