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Hastings Off-Street Parking Infrastructure Improvements
Meeting: 20/03/2017 - Charity Committee (Item 84)
84 Hastings Off-Street Parking Infrastructure Improvements PDF 139 KB
Minutes:
The Parking Enforcement Manager presented the report of the Assistant Director, Environment and Place, which requested funding for essential upgrades to off street car parking infrastructure located on Foreshore Trust land.
The report proposed the purchase of 22 new pay and display machines at a total cost of £56,364. Additional funding was also required to update the tariff boards in car parks. The works were necessary because many of the existing model of pay and display machines are no longer manufactured, which makes maintenance works more costly and time consuming. Upgrading the pay and display machines will also enable the use of cashless payment methods and further improvements to customer service.
The Coastal Users Group had been consulted on the matter and were broadly supportive of the proposal. The council’s Cabinet also approved the capital expenditure for this work at their meeting in March.
The Assistant Director, Financial Services and Revenues, commented that the cost of the project would be met from Foreshore Trust funds, rather than borrowing.
Councillor Cartwright proposed approval of the recommendations to the Assistant Director, Environment and Place’s report, which was seconded by Councillor Forward.
RESOLVED (unanimously) that the request for funding be approved.
The reason for this decision was:
The infrastructure improvements set out in this report are an essential element of the council’s digital transformation and customer first programmes. They will facilitate even greater use of cashless payment options, which will help drive channel shift in line with the council’s customer first and digital by design principles, as well as generating efficiency savings as we move from partly paper based parking administration systems to wholly digital systems.
The costs associated with them are amongst those which the council can offset against income generated from the off street parking service.
Improvement of the infrastructure located on Foreshore Trust land is essential and integral to the overall success of these improvements to the whole of the off street parking service operated by the council.
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