Albert C. Mooney, Grand Rapids City Treasurer, submitted supportive testimony regarding HB 4726 to the House committee that first looked at the bill during October 2009. Noting that the city then had more than $3.5 million in uncollected parking fines, he predicted that passage of the bill would boost collections by as much as $500,000 for the first year and then provide more than $250,000 in additional collections for each year after that. “
Oh boo hoo, GR!
You have a small army of police academy rejects with a power trip complex writing these things by the truckload on a daily basis, and you think that there wouldn’t be that many people that just says “whatever” to it?
I got one for a 2 minute run into the library to return ONE book. The thing that really ticked me off is that there wasn’t a ticket on the window until after I got home, took a nap, and went back out to the car only to find the SOB followed me home and stuck it on my window!
With all of the cash this city blows on parks that bums hang out in, to electric go-karts for the meter maids to write even more tickets, we should consider the uncollected money to be in safer hands away from them.
I got one for a 2 minute run into the library to return ONE book.