Oakwatch: The Oakland Code Enforcement Project Minutes March 15, 2017 Present: John Fournier, Elana Zaitsoff, Bob Kollar, Janice Markowitz, Lizabeth Gray, Mark Oleniacz, Alicia Carberry, Kathy Chintam, Ernest Rajakone, Marjory Lake, Rebekkah Ranallo, Arlind Karpuzi, Pitt SGB, John Wilds, Pitt CGR, Millie Sass, Blithe Runsdorf, Michael Medwed, John Hamilton, Evan Bowen-Gaddy, Viola Garis, Sophie Koss, Officer Nick Black, Officer David Calamosca, Daniel Herrmann, Ron Griffin, David Shifren, Jeffrey Barone, Joann Cohen , John Tokarski, Kannu Sahni, Guy Johnson, Heather Camp, JOHN FOURNIER, PITTSBURGH PARKING AUTHORITY Q: Who is handling Area E surveys? Residents haven’t heard back. A: I’ll work with Andrew Dash and Neil Manganaro to figure out what’s going on. Andrew Dash is point person on this right now. Q: Area E requested a change in hours for non-resident parking from one hour to 3O minutes and for change of enforcement hours. The area is up for recertification and there was also a question of a survey that never occurred. Addition request is for a change in the renewal schedule. Students are buying permits in July then moving out of the permit area but continuing to park there. Suggested lessening the grace period, evening enforcement and change of calendar year. Alicia asked OPDC to share notes from the COR parking subcommittee meeting from last year with John Fournier to catch him up on past conversations. Q: Why are three permits issued per household? Seems too many for our dense blocks. A: We’ll issue up to three permits per household for unrelated and more for people who are related. Q: How will new sticker-less system work? A: Several reasons we’re going paperless. Having to come downtown or mail applications is inefficient. Creating online portal so people can purchase permits online. We will still accept walk-ins and mail-in purchases. Very active black market for RPPP permits and visitor permits. All permits connected to license plates and therefore can’t be passed around car to car. In regards to people concerned about transparency for residents, we feel benefit of eliminating black market outweighs the benefit of residents being able to police cars. New hardware system, new vendor and seven fully functional RPL vehicles will be in place by the end of this year to cover much more ground than in past. We are looking at 25 enforcement officers out at a time enforcing 10,000 spots, Monday through Saturday with a total of 40 on staff. Trying to make their jobs easier by making these improvements. Without RPL system everything takes much longer and is less efficient.
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