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HomeMy WebLinkAboutParking Advisory Board - Minutes - 07/12/2021 PARKING ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR MEETING JULY 12, 2021, 5:30 PM Zoom meeting 0 7 /12/2021 – AGENDA Page 1 1. CALL TO ORDER a. Hill called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm. 2. ROLL CALL a. Board members that were absent - Skinner 3. AGENDA REVIEW 4. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION a. Benton Roesler, Director of Housing Security ASCSU (Associate Students of Colorado State University) – He recently got this newly created position 2 months ago. In his job description, this is one of the Boards he is to attend. Roesler’s role is to seek out affordable housing options for students and support students through housing insecurity and creating more housing security. Parking is a large piece of this subject. 5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. Approve June 2021 minutes  Unable to approve the June 2021 minutes due to an update and the lack of a quorum. These minutes will be approved at the August meeting.  Wilkens stated that she would like the alleys to have an expanded use for restaurants/bars as opposed to using the streets. Wilkens second point was to ask for consideration to be made on what Lauren was asking. Wilkens see’s consideration being beyond just picking selective businesses to benefit for exclusivity on public property or only thinking about money for allowing this to continue, etc. 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a. BFO update – What is a BFO offer? The City follows a process known as Budgeting for Outcomes (BFO) to make decisions about how resources are allocated and aligned with the Strategic Plan. Every two years, staff develop the City Manager's Recommended Budget, which is the product of significant community and staff input. In the fall, City Council reviews the Recommended Budget, holds public hearings and other opportunities for further community input, makes any changes, and finally Council Liaison: Julie Pignataro Chair: Nora Hill Vice Chair: Adam Eggleston Staff Liaison: Drew Brooks (970) 221-6386 Administrative Support: Danna Varnell (970) 224-6161 DocuSign Envelope ID: BC4487C9-F44B-446A-A5A3-7F0B7CC54495 Page 2 adopts the budget in November of even years, to go into effect Jan. 1 the following year. Typically, the City creates a two-year budget. Due to the sharply decreased revenue and continued uncertainty around COVID-19, the City has chosen to create a one- year budget for 2021 that focuses primarily on preserving ongoing operations and maintaining flexibility, should the City's financial picture change even more. In addition, public engagement will look different for this budget. Because of ongoing gathering restrictions and the financial reality that the City is going to have to reduce or eliminate some services to create a balanced budget, we will not offer the same kinds of public engagement as in past budget cycles. However, community members will still have opportunities to shape the budget over the next several months, through online forums, surveys and other feedback mechanism on this page, public hearings with City Council in the fall, and more. Check back often for the latest engagement opportunities. In Fort Collins, those community priorities are organized around seven Key Outcome Areas - the results that the community wants to achieve. Those outcomes/results are things like, a Safe Community, or Environmental Health, or a High Performing Government. By orienting around those results, the budget process shifts from paying for costs to prioritizing and "buying" specific programs, services or initiatives that will help us achieve those results. Through that process, BFO also helps to create a local government that works better and costs less by emphasizing accountability, transparency, innovation, and collaboration. To achieve the City’s mission, vision and values, the Strategic Plan and City budget are aligned and focused on continuous improvement in seven Key Outcome Areas: • Neighborhood Livability & Social Health • Culture & Recreation • Economic Health • Environmental Health • Safe Community • Transportation & Mobility • High Performing Government In the City budget, revenue is allocated to support policies and initiatives that drive improvement in each outcome. Each Outcome Area includes specific objectives that define different focus areas (see the City's 2020 Strategic Plan for specific objectives). b. Parking Services Offer types - • 6 individual offers were submitted. o Ongoing offers  Parking Services Operations DocuSign Envelope ID: BC4487C9-F44B-446A-A5A3-7F0B7CC54495 Page 3 • Provide the core function and mission of Parking Services • Managing public parking • Creating on-street turnover • Providing long-term parking needs  Firehouse Alley Parking Structure • Provide the necessary operations and maintenance funding for FAPS • Landscape • Snow removal • Facility maintenance • Video surveillance system • Partnership with the DDA and the Bohemian Foundation o Asset Management offers  Parking Structure Critical and Preventative Repairs • Fund critical and preventative maintenance for two (2) of the City managed parking structures: CCPS & OTPS • Critical repairs – due April 2021 • Preventative repairs – due before April 2024 • CCPS – elevator repairs and enclosure included • 2021 Offer – not funded  Downtown Sign Replacement and Upgrade • Fund replacement of aging and inconsistent signage in the downtown area. • Provide clarification of rules of parking • Allow extended enforcement of time-restricted parking • Project shelved in 2020 due to budget reductions o 1-Time Enhancement offers  Parking Enforcement Vehicles and License Plate Recognition Equipment • Aged equipment is needing replaced to effectively patrol the downtown area, RP3 zones, and surrounding areas • Current EVs – range significantly limited • Current mobile LPR system no longer supported • Newer EV models have increased range DocuSign Envelope ID: BC4487C9-F44B-446A-A5A3-7F0B7CC54495 Page 4 capability  Parking Structure Security Upgrades • Improve safety and security in CCPS and OTPS • Improve existing and limited camera systems • Install emergency call boxes • Camera deterrent - reduce facilities staff maintenance, cleaning, and repair needs • Meet the standard of FAPS o Board comments  Eggleston – the City should consider budgeting for on- going maintenance, repairs, and upgrades.  Wilkens – when the gates were removed, you mentioned that there was a camera system that could replace that. In the budget offer, are they putting in the camera system? You should be able to have more people paying because they know they will get a ticket if they do not pay. Keselburg – what Wilken’s is talking about is the fixed license plate recognition system, entering and exiting the garage. This project was put on hold. The last meeting, we had with the DDA was February of 2020 and there was no final determination of what that budget would look like. A discussion has been had to see if there are some revenue recovery opportunities to do this in one of the garages. As far as the parking structure security upgrades, this is not part of that offer. That is a different offer that we are still interested in. It is a matter of funding availability and agreements with the partners. Brooks – we would fund those cameras with some left- over revenues in that account from that project. So, when we replaced all the different technology in the garages, we still had some dollars left over. We were going to use that for this purpose, but it was decided not to do this during Covid to see if we needed those funds to appropriate to some other fund, depending on what happened. We will revisit this conversation soon. Keselburg – we are still interested in that as another payment option. Wilkens – was the loss over 100k? Whatever the system costs, it couldn’t be more than the losses have been. Keselburg – Firehouse parking structure was built in 2017 with a gateless system. We have seen consistent revenue with that. Old Town and DocuSign Envelope ID: BC4487C9-F44B-446A-A5A3-7F0B7CC54495 Page 5 Civic Center parking structures were converted in January 2019 to the same system. We did anticipate a dip in revenue about 10-15% based on industry norms. We did see a peak of about 25%, so we changed some enforcement methodology to off-set some of those losses. After Covid hit, the parking structure use was greatly reduced. Now we are seeing some recovery efforts in the garages. Daytime use pre-Covid was at about 78% use. It’s currently about 50% vacant. We continue to do off-hour enforcement specific to the parking structures. We did not see as much permit loss. YOY, it’s approximately a 30% decrease in permit sales, mostly during the summer months. When CSU came back in session, we did see some recovery. Many permit holders that had permits for the parking structures, just retained their permit. 2020 vs. 2019 and 2020 vs. 2021 numbers will be forthcoming. c. American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) – See presentation, Page 14-16  Working with the City of Fort Collins – City Recovery Manager  Limited parking friendly categories: Parking Facilities  Comparing FY 2019 and FY 2020 estimated revenue to identify reduction. d. Keselburg - See presentation • K-Mart/King Soopers – Parking Structure • MAX – parking occupancy/locations • ADA parking stalls – Downtown • Mobile Parking App – RFP • Linden Street – update (Engineering Dept. is managing this project) • Paid Parking Pilot – discussion e. Eggleston - CARES Act funding update 7. NEW BUSINESS 8. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS 9. OTHER BUSINESS a. Julie Pignataro will be joining the August Parking Advisory Board meeting  Suggested agenda for Julie • Update on the LPR system - Keselburg • Paid Parking • Pilot • Path forward DocuSign Envelope ID: BC4487C9-F44B-446A-A5A3-7F0B7CC54495 Page 6 • RP3 Program • Disabled Parking • Parking garages – building more? • Electric/Hybrid parking spaces in downtown/garages • Solar power on the rooftops • Parking Code changes • CSU parking • MAX parking/occupancy data. MAX parking not being used for MAX parking. • Neighbor to neighbor parking share 10. ADJOURNMENT a. The meeting was moved to be adjourned by Hill and second by Eggleston at 7:01 pm. These minutes have been unanimously approved by the Parking Advisory Board on August 09, 2021 X_____________________________ Date: __________ Eleanor Hill, Parking Advisory Board Chair DocuSign Envelope ID: BC4487C9-F44B-446A-A5A3-7F0B7CC54495 8/14/2021