If Auburn councilors go along with a proposed policy, cars subject to multiple unpaid parking tickets may get the boot.
Auburn City Council will discuss putting some teeth into a measure to get drivers to pay their outstanding parking infractions.
The proposal would allow police to put an immobilization device, such as a steel tire boot, on cars whose owners have more than $100 in unpaid charges or fines for parking violations. Motorists would have 45 days to respond to notifications of the violations before police would take such measures.
Vehicle owners then would have 72 hours to rectify their outstanding fines before their cars would be impounded, or patrol officers could skip that step and tow the vehicles at the expense of the owner, who would have to pay storage charges as well.
Tampering with the immobilization device would result in a fine, up to $5,000, and possible jail time.
In other business:
Councilors will tackle issues they tabled last week.
Corporation counsel John Rossi removed a portion of a recommended resolution that would force people during the public comment session to wait 90 days between mentioning the same subject. Instead, councilors will review a slight change in policy which would require potential speakers to read the rules of public-to-be-heard and sign it. The document is the same read selectively during council meetings informing people of the three-minute time limit, not to direct comments at specific officials, and act courteously and avoid defamatory language.
By signing, the residents agree not to violate the rules.
Also, councilors will examine a lease-to-buy agreement for a $350,000 pumper truck for the Auburn Fire Department.
Staff writer Jessica Soule can be reached at 253-5311, ext. 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net
The proposal would allow police to put an immobilization device, such as a steel tire boot, on cars whose owners have more than $100 in unpaid charges or fines for parking violations. Motorists would have 45 days to respond to notifications of the violations before police would take such measures.
Vehicle owners then would have 72 hours to rectify their outstanding fines before their cars would be impounded, or patrol officers could skip that step and tow the vehicles at the expense of the owner, who would have to pay storage charges as well.
Tampering with the immobilization device would result in a fine, up to $5,000, and possible jail time.
In other business:
Councilors will tackle issues they tabled last week.
Corporation counsel John Rossi removed a portion of a recommended resolution that would force people during the public comment session to wait 90 days between mentioning the same subject. Instead, councilors will review a slight change in policy which would require potential speakers to read the rules of public-to-be-heard and sign it. The document is the same read selectively during council meetings informing people of the three-minute time limit, not to direct comments at specific officials, and act courteously and avoid defamatory language.
By signing, the residents agree not to violate the rules.
Also, councilors will examine a lease-to-buy agreement for a $350,000 pumper truck for the Auburn Fire Department.
Staff writer Jessica Soule can be reached at 253-5311, ext. 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net
