Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Traffic Director Robert Esparza Claims Meter Fees Cover Salaries & Collection Costs



From the editor:  If you scroll the video below of the 12/10/13 City Commission meeting to the 44 minute mark(move the white ball with your mouse), please note that former Traffic Director Robert Esparza states clearly that downtown parking fees cover the salaries and other expenses associated with their collection.  This is in direct contradiction with the claim by Ramiro Gonzalez and John Villarreal that there is a $20,000 shortfall that has to be covered from the general fund.

Esparza mentions the small amount of funding from the general fund, but states they could be "deleted."

 I've filed a Public Information Request for the last 5 years of parking meter collections, salaries and other expenses to see if this was misrepresented at the 3/18/14 City Commission meeting which doubled parking rates downtown.



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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 19, 2014 at 12:51 PM

    Seems like this city's response to every issue is "raise the prices/increase costs". It is starting to bear heavy on the poor population, as our land is "given away" to protect the ego of a friend, while the citizens pay. Planning is non-existent....just "fly by the seat of the pants" by the Mayor and his minions. It is a shame that voters continue to have their heads in the sand and can't see that their cost of living is being raised every day by this city commission.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 19, 2014 at 4:14 PM

    You are such fools. They keep your nose to the "parking meter scandal" while working the background like second-story thieves. Wise up, Barton.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 9:31 AM

    The guy at the microphone in your video is hardly the personification of intelligence. Too Mexican through and through.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 5:13 PM

    (Too Mexican through and through.)

    Had he been gallant enough to merit a medal of honor for his service in the Nam, he wouldn't have received it. And not for being too Mexican, but for being a complete idiot.
    Dags.

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