Montclair Council Terminates Parking Authority
The township council created a utility to manage parking operations starting Jan. 1, 2013.
The Montclair Parking Authority is no more. The township council unanimously voted on Tuesday to dissolve the 10-year-old parking authority. By another unanimous vote, the council created the Montclair Parking Utility which will assume all control of the moribund parking authority starting Jan. 1, 2013. Mayor Robert Jackson and the council said the move will help the town’s economic development in the long run. “The ordinance -- I believe -- will allow us to move more aggressively some of the economic development goals that we’ve had and articulated since we’ve been in office,” said Jackson, “in terms of parking lots downtown and other municipal property.” “I had envisioned the parking authority as a real partner in ... economic …
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Cary Africk
11:42 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Let's separate personality, from competence. It was a good idea to have Hartnett write the short study of the shortfall, which had been found by the auditors, not Joe. The "real" study had already been done by Glenn Rogers. The town is in a pickle. SOMEONE needs to run the parking authority. It cannot be run by the town manager. This Town has a reputation of "getting rid of" the good people while… more ›