QUESTION
How does being short sixty employees affect revenue related to parking meters?
2:31:30
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A shortage of sixty employees impacts city revenue by delaying the collection and repair of parking meters.
- Two key roles affected are those involved in collecting quarters from parking meters and maintaining or repairing them.
- The delay in collecting quarters may not be seen as immediate revenue loss if the meter can still accommodate more quarters.
- However, broken meters that take longer to be repaired result in missed revenue opportunities for the city.
- The discussion underlines the significance of timely maintenance and collection for ensuring consistent revenue from parking meters.
Lincoln Restler
2:31:30
The mayor's office has said, so they're blue in the face as his the only director that they're not there's no hiring fees that's impacting revenue generating positions, but that's not the case.
2:31:43
Could you just help me understand if the life and safety stuff aside as important as that work is?
2:31:50
Just on the revenue side, if we do down sixty people, how is that impacting us?
2:31:58
It means that when a parking meter breaks, These are the guys that are going out to help fix it.
Michael DeMarco
2:32:04
There's the 2 titles.
2:32:05
1 of them are the collection portion who collect the physical quarters from the parking meters.
Lincoln Restler
2:32:10
Got it.
Michael DeMarco
2:32:10
Then there's the traffic device maintain a position, which installs, maintain, and repairs, all those millimeters in the system.
2:32:16
So you know, being down the number of people.
2:32:20
And collections
Lincoln Restler
2:32:21
it's just so I can I just probe on that social?
2:32:24
So for the muni meters in particular.
2:32:26
Because I imagine if unless this the the the the the device can't accommodate any more quarters, then omb would say, Well, if it takes an extra couple days for somebody to pick it up, we're not losing any money.
2:32:40
But if the multimeter is broken and it takes longer to get it fixed and functional again, then that's money that the city's leaving on the table.
Michael DeMarco
2:32:48
Absolutely.