Speaker 1: Bill passed into the Senate. Please read item number nine the short title, please.
Speaker 2: Agenda Item nine Council Bill one one, 1981 related to parking. The committee recommends the bill passed.
Speaker 1: Customer Brian, thank you.
Speaker 6: This legislation would change the parking code. Specifically, it will loosen language about how we restrict where and when certain parking meters are used. The legislation is fairly straightforward, but I should speak to why we're doing this. The Department of Transportation and the Executive have proposed making some modifications to the parking meters and parking stations, I should say , later this summer. Currently, there are basically two options for how folks pay for parking. About 30% of people use a smartphone and a pay by phone application where they enter the license plate of the vehicle and the zone in which they're part. And 70% use the pay stations with credit card or cash and they get stickers that show how long they paid for and which they go put them on the windows of their car. What this legislation would do would allow greater flexibility. And with the executive and department transportation planning to do is do some retrofits to those pay stations so that going forward, whether you use a smartphone app or use cash or credit card at the station, you would enter the vehicle license number to verify that you paid. What this does is it streamlines the ability of parking enforcement officers to check one specific place and see if this vehicle has paid or not, as opposed to check both on their database, if it's paid for smartphones and check the sticker. It also eliminates the need for stickers, which for some has been a bit of a problem. The new parking base stations will continue to allow a receipt to be printed. So if folks want a paper record of what they paid in case they have concerns about verifying later if they get a ticket in there, it also will allow people to create accounts so that they can go online and see all the different payments they made. So that longitudinal track record of where they paid for it.
Speaker 1: Very good. Thanks for that explanation. Any further comments? Please call the role on the pastor of the bill Macheda O'Brien.
Speaker 2: So I beg Sean Gonzalez Johnson Morales President Harrell I ain't favorite unopposed.
Speaker 1: Go past and sure sign it. Please read it and add a number ten.
AN ORDINANCE relating to parking; defining “blockface;” updating the definition of “parking payment device;” defining “pay-to-park signage;” allowing the Traffic Engineer to establish areas where parking is regulated by pay-to-park signage and to authorize additional methods of payment for parking; amending the description of certain parking penalties; amending parking and payment requirements; making technical changes; amending Sections 11.14.425, 11.16.300, 11.31.121, 11.76.005, 11.76.015, 11.76.020, and 11.76.040 of the Seattle Municipal Code; adding new Sections 11.14.062 and 11.14.438 to the Seattle Municipal Code; and repealing Section 11.76.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code.