Submitted By
Steven Drazner, Chief Financial Officer
Reviewed By
LKS
Agenda Item Title
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Discussion Related to Uncollectable Parking Fines Related to Citations Issued during 2017 and Prior.
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Overview
Overview
The Village conducted a parking citation amnesty program in early 2019 to waive late fines associated with parking citations issued during 2017 and prior, which allowed citation holders to pay the initial fine amount only and waived any late fees that had been associated with the unpaid citation. Staff requests the Board discuss the likelihood that the Village will receive additional payments on citations issued in 2017 and prior.
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Staff Recommendation
Direct staff to prepare the necessary actions to declare parking citations issued in 2017 or prior uncollectable.
Background
In 2004, the Village conducted a parking citation amnesty program for citations issued in 2003 and prior. The amnesty program was utilized to reduce the backlog of unpaid parking citations and aid in the switch over from the old technology to the current parking citation system. In early 2019 the Village Board approved another amnesty program for citations issued between 2004 and 2017 (all citations prior to 2003 had been deemed uncollectable by the Village Board following the prior amnesty program and that data was not migrated into the prior citation database).
For the period of 2004 - 2017, the Village had about 48,000 citations that are not in collections because there has either not been a successful DMV "owner match" with the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles or the owner of the vehicle has filed for bankruptcy protection. All of the citations without a DMV match and most of the citations in bankruptcy are uncollectable.
During the 2019 amnesty program, 1,892 citations were paid. In terms of revenue, the total amount collected under the amnesty program was approximately $60,000.
Due to the efforts made to collect on outstanding parking cit...
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