Title
Resolution to Approve Amendment No. 2 to the Parking Agreement between the City of Ann Arbor and the Downtown Development Authority of the City of Ann Arbor
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval is a resolution to approve Amendment No. 2 to the Parking Agreement between the City and the Downtown Development Authority.
The City and the DDA initially entered into a Parking Agreement in 1992. Under that Agreement, the DDA assumed the management of the City’s parking decks and lots. In response to the needs of the downtown community and on-going development in the area, a new Parking Agreement was approved by both entities in 2011.
In 2017, after the City/DDA joint work session, which included discussion of re-opening the Parking Agreement to address the potential needs of both parties, Amendment No. 1 to the City/DDA Agreement was adopted (R-17-050). That amendment increased the City’s revenue share from 17% to 20% for FY2018 and FY2019. Staff discussion of other potential changes continued.
Based on those on-going discussions, the proposed Amendment No. 2 to the City/DDA Parking Agreement recommends:
• Administrative approval process for the addition/removal of parking meters has been streamlined.
• Coordination of parking fine adjustments with parking rate changes
• Code amendments to address current and future parking meter technology
• DDA review of City’s Special Parking Districts Policy and recommendations to Council
• Retention of the DDA’s payment of a percentage of gross parking revenue at 20% each quarter.
• Elimination of certain procedural requirements regarding DDA issued RFPs for management subcontractors.
• Directing all public input on parking operations to be processed through public meetings of the DDA and its committees.
City Administration recommends approval of the amendment.
Staff
Prepared by: Mary Joan Fales, Senior Assistant City Attorney
Reviewed by: Susan Pollay, Executive Director, DDA
Approved by: Howard S. Lazarus, City Administrator
Body
Whereas, On July 1, 2011, the City of Ann Arbor (“City”) and the Downtown Development Authority of the City of Ann Arbor (“DDA”) entered into an agreement for the management, operations, maintenance, and capital and financial obligations of the City and the DDA with respect to the Ann Arbor municipal parking system (“Parking Agreement”), which was amended on February 21, 2017;
Whereas, The DDA has proposed and the City agrees with the following further amends to the Parking Agreement
• Administrative approval process for the addition/removal of parking meters has been streamlined.
• Coordination of parking fine adjustments with parking rate changes
• Code amendments to address current and future parking meter technology
• DDA review of City’s Special Parking Districts Policy and recommendations to Council
• Retention of the DDA’s payment of a percentage of gross parking revenue at 20% each quarter.
• Elimination of certain procedural requirements regarding DDA issued RFPs for management subcontractors.
• Directing all public input on parking operations to be processed through public meetings of the DDA and its committees
Whereas, The Parking Agreement requires such changes to be by written amendment approved by the governing bodies of both entities;
Whereas, No other changes to the Parking Agreement are proposed at this time;
RESOLVED, That City Council approve Amendment No. 2 to the Parking Agreement as described above;
RESOLVED, That the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized and directed to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Parking Agreement after approval as to substance by the City Administrator and approval as to form by the City Attorney; and
RESOLVED, That Amendment No. 2 to the Parking Agreement be forwarded to the DDA, after execution by the City, for its formal approval and execution.