After a long thought out process, the city will charge you more to park downtown, they don't have much to say in writing about the Town Hall meeting last week and Ralph Munro wants to make some trails.

Almost every week this is the "What's on the city council's plate this week" review. I don't cover everything, so if you want the full rundown, read the packet and agenda yourself.

1. Since the summer the city council has been contemplating a report from their special panel to study parking fees to raise some parking fees. Here are their exact suggestions:

1. Raise expired meter citation to $15.00 from $12.50 for citation consistency.
2. Raise all restricted parking citations (Blocking alley, Fire Hydrant, etc.) to $75.00 from $30.00.
3. Raise construction overtime permits to $10.00 per space, per day from $3.00.
4. Raise service car permits to $150.00 per year from $75.00 per year.
5. Change the 9-hour quarterly permit to a monthly permit at a cost of $75.00.
6. Change the Residential Parking Program to a maximum of four vehicles at an annual cost of $10.00 per vehicle from a maximum of four vehicles, first vehicle free second vehicle $10.00 annually.
7. All other costs (meter rates, leased lots, permits etc.) would stay at the current rate.

The city council will decide whether to accept a "first reading" of an ordinance to enact these fees. The committee who put together the recommendations studied parking fees in similar Washington cities and state capitols. See the pdf here.

2. Also on tap is the city council's reactions to the Town Hall meeting to decide where the city should spend its money. Don't look for too many details in the packet, because they're saving their reaction for the meeting on Tuesday night.

3. Ralph Munro (former Secretary of State and current local resident) is talking to the city to expand the network of trials on the Westside to include some undeveloped city park property out that direction and (I assume) his property near Mud Bay.

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