Showing posts with label pesky meter feeders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pesky meter feeders. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

And there it is. It's all about the meter feeders.

I called it. Thanks to Nick M., the true reason behind the parking sensors is below in his email exchange with Mt. Lebanon Director of Finance Andrew McCreery.

Mr. Meduho,

Responses to your questions.

Regarding the Streetline company and the associated apps/programs that come with it, how much is this costing Mt. Lebanon?

The current 95 sensors are $14/month per sensor. There is a current expansion being installed yesterday and today, with and additional 74 sensors. When they are activated, all sensors will be $13/month per sensor. The term of the contract runs through 8/31/17.

When did we start paying for this? Is this a monthly subscription? Can you please offer some information regarding Streetline.

We began with a pilot program at the beginning 2015. The program started September 2015. As a reminder, this program is funded through parking fees and is not supported in any way by the General Fund (tax dollars).

Regards.

Andrew

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In a separate email,

Mr. Meduho,

Responses to your questions.

Are we using the Streetline data to help with parking violations and/or enforcement? And if so, how?

Yes. We are using the Streetline enforcement application to help guide our enforcement of two hour violations. We successfully integrated the real time reporting with our meter vendor for expired meter violations, but determined the data requests were too cumbersome for the individual batteries on the meters. We were replacing too many batteries to make it cost effective. Therefore, we ceased the expired meter component.

Also, who can I ask for the data? Who is overseeing this.

As with all requests for specific data, you may submit a right to know request. The data is being analyzed and overseen by a combination of the finance department and parking enforcement. We review the data quarterly.
Thank you,

Andrew