Explanation
Pay and Display and Pay by Space are emerging, innovative parking technologies that are spreading throughout the United States and the world. Pilot projects are underway in numerous U.S. cities (Oakland and Berkeley, California; Portland, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Buffalo, New York; and Baltimore, Maryland).
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, issued a Request for Information (RFI) to improve Columbus' existing meter operations by demonstrating the viability of and improve customer satisfaction and convenience with Pay and Display and pay by space meter systems. The project was formally advertised in the City Bulletin from June 9, 2006 through July 7, 2006 with responses due on July 7, 2006. The City received five responses to this RFI from Standard Parking, Parcxmart, Duncan Solutions, Inc., J.J. MacKay Canada Limited and Cale Parking Systems USA, Inc. All five companies participated in a demonstration session on July 27, 2006. Four vendors presented credible, valuable systems and have conducted or are conducting pilot demonstration projects in the above-noted communities. Parcxmart gave a demonstration on the use of a "smart card" but did not possess the necessary goods or services for providing Pay and Display and Pay by Space systems and has been excluded from further consideration at this time.
The Public Service Department proposes to conduct a demonstration project of the pay and display and pay by space meter systems. The demonstration project would run for six to eight months beginning approximately January 2007 to August 2007. Meter systems would be installed by the vendors with each vendor installing their particular type of meter system in a unique portion of the demonstration area. The Department in cooperation with the Public Safety Department and Parking Violations Bureau will track, monitor and evaluate each system according to established consumer acceptance, maintenance, enforcement, and budgetary criteria over the demonstration period. Public comment and feedback will be solicited and considered. At the conclusion of the demonstration period the Department will make a final report to City Council with a recommendation to proceed (or not proceed) with the Pay and Display and Pay by Space meter systems on an expanded basis. The demonstration area boundaries are Gay Street between Third Street and High Street; Marconi Boulevard between Nationwide Boulevard and the railroad tracks; Fulton Street between High Street and Front Street and two off-street parking lots located in the Short North (618 and 701 North High Street).
This legislation authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into contract with Cale Parking, Duncan Technologies, MacKay Meters and Standard Parking to provide materials, labor and equipment at no cost to the city, necessary to install and operate Pay and Display and Pay by Space meter systems in five locations in Downtown and the Short North and waives formal competitive bidding requirements to allow for the pilot project. Vendor contract compliance approval is pending with said approval being a condition of contract execution.
Fiscal Impact: None at this time.
Emergency action is requested to commence the pilot multi-space parking meter demonstration project in a timely manner and meet vendor commitments.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into contract with Cale Parking Systems USA, Inc., Duncan Solutions, Inc., J.J. MacKay Canada Limited and Standard Parking to provide materials, labor and equipment at no cost to the city necessary to install and operate Pay and Display and Pay by Space meter systems at up to five locations in the Downtown and the Short North in connection with the Department's Pilot Multi-Space Parking Meter Project; to waive City Code provisions for competitive bidding; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00) (REPEALED BY ORD. 0754-2007 PASSED 6/4/2007)
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WHEREAS, Pay and Display and Pay by Space are emerging, innovative parking technologies being deployed throughout the United States and the world; and
WHEREAS, the Public Service Director, through the Transportation Division, desires to initiate a Pilot Multi-Space Parking Meter Pilot project to improve Columbus' existing meter operations and increase customer satisfaction and convenience by demonstrating and evaluating the viability of Pay and Display and Pay by Space meter systems; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest that the provisions of competitive bidding be waived for the purpose of conducting said pilot project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contracts with four vendors to provide materials, labor and equipment necessary to install and operate Pay and Display and Pay by Space meter systems in up to five locations in the Downtown and the Short North areas as a pilot project at no cost to the City in a timely manner, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into contract with Cale Parking Systems USA, Inc., Duncan Solutions, Inc., J.J. MacKay Canada Limited and Standard Parking to provide materials, labor and equipment at no cost to the City necessary to install and operate Pay and Display and Pay by Space meter systems in up to five locations in the Downtown and the Short North areas as a pilot project.
SECTION 2. That the provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, are hereby wavied.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.