PARKS AND RECREATION DIVISION RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTION.
The Parks and Recreation Division (“Division”) is planning to modernize and convert its pay parking operations within the County's park system to a metered system. The initial, planned conversion is for Hollywood North Beach Park ("Park"). The Park presently has a staffed gatehouse for restricted entry into the main parking lot. The parking lot has only one entry and exit point, which can lead to vehicle stacking concerns during the Park's peak operating periods. The Park's boundaries include several pocket parks located along the Intracoastal Waterway, where the County presently does not charge for parking. The Division desires to convert these parking areas to a metered, "island" system where Park patrons will pay for parking at one or more centrally located metered pay parking stations according to the Park patrons' parking space numbers.
To administer and enforce the metered "island" system, the Division is planning to advertise a solicitation through the Purchasing Division utilizing the Request For Proposals or Request for Letters of Interest process under the Procurement Code, to hire a parking management firm. Presently, neither the Broward County Code of Ordinances ("County Code") nor the Broward County Administrative Code ("Administrative Code") provides the requisite authority to establish pay parking stations in County parks, pay parking regulations, and enforcement of violations relating to such pay parking regulations through issuance of pay parking citations. The proposed revisions to the County Code and any amendments to the Administrative Code, deemed necessary, will authorize the Division or its contracted parking management agent to issue citations for pay parking violations at designated County parks and coordinate enforcement of such violations and any hearings established by the County to appeal the issuance of pay parking citations. |