Council to Look at Parking Enforcement, Refinancing

The Medford City Council will consider several resolutions on Tuesday, including two concerning city-wide parking enforcement and refinancing of city bonds.

Newly appointed councilor Mark Arena has offered a resolution asking Mayor Michael McGlynn to direct the Police Chief to “recommend a program for city-wide parking enforcement, using police officers to be deployed and compensated on an overtime basis, including a recommendation for earliest date for implementation of the program,” as a means to generate “much needed revenue.”

Increased parking enforcement, including city-wide permit parking, creating a civilian parking enforcement division, and stepping up police patrols, has been discussed for several years by Mayor McGlynn as well as the City Council. City Councilor Michael Marks, a member of a parking enforcement commission established by the mayor in 2008, pushed for a separate parking enforcement division within the police department in 2007, a measure that his Council colleagues supported at the time.

The Council will also hear from former City Councilor Stephanie Muccini Burke, currently serving as the city’s Director of Budgets and Personnel, about refinancing city bonds to save $2 million over ten years. The Council will convene a Committee of the Whole meeting at 6:00PM in Room 207 of Medford City Hall on Tuesday, March 22. City Auditor Anne Baker will also be present at the meeting.

The Council’s regular meeting will take place at 7:00PM in the Council chamber at Medford City Hall and will be broadcast live on Channel 16.

– InsideMedford.com