Title
Resolution to Direct the City Administrator to Open Discussions with the Downtown Development Authority for Modification of the City/DDA Parking Agreement
Staff
Prepared by: Mary Joan Fales, Senior Assistant City Attorney
Sponsored by: Mayor Taylor
Body
Whereas, The Municipal Parking System consists of parking structures, surface parking lots and on-street metered parking spaces owned or leased by the City or the DDA to provide parking to the public within the downtown;
Whereas, The City and the DDA entered to a long-term agreement (“Parking Agreement”) for the operation and maintenance of the Municipal Parking System;
Whereas, Under the terms of the Parking Agreement the DDA and the City work together to ensure that the public benefits from Municipal Parking System;
Whereas, The City has an interest in opening the Parking Agreement to discuss, among other items, a potential modification of the seventeen percent (17%) gross parking revenue quarterly payment to the City;
Whereas, The DDA recently received a Nelson/Nygaard parking study with a variety of recommendations for improving the management of the parking system, which recommendations include potential changes to the hours of parking enforcement; and
Whereas, The DDA indicated at City Council’s March 14, 2016 work session a desire to open the Parking Agreement to incorporate some of the recommendations of the study and other potential operational improvements;
RESOLVED, That City Council directs the City Administrator, or designee, to work collaboratively with the DDA and recommend modifications to the terms of the Parking Agreement that promote the public interest.
Sponsored by: Mayor Taylor and Councilmembers Westphal, Smith and Krapohl