Hollister City Council moves in response to state action
Parking ticket fines will jump by $3 after the Hollister City
Council this week voted to offset a state bump in ticket fines.
California lawmakers in December increased the penalties
associated with parking citations by $3 to add money to a Trial
Court Trust Fund. The move left Hollister officials to consider
three options: do nothing and absorb the cost of the additional
penalty; raise all fines on citations by $3 to negate the impact of
the increase; or increase fines on all citations by $5.
Hollister City Council moves in response to state action
Parking ticket fines will jump by $3 after the Hollister City Council this week voted to offset a state bump in ticket fines.
California lawmakers in December increased the penalties associated with parking citations by $3 to add money to a Trial Court Trust Fund. The move left Hollister officials to consider three options: do nothing and absorb the cost of the additional penalty; raise all fines on citations by $3 to negate the impact of the increase; or increase fines on all citations by $5.
The first option would have led to a revenue reduction of up to $3,355, according to a report by Hollister Police Chief Jeff Miller. Bumping fines by $5 per ticket, on the other hand, could have led to a revenue increase of up to $2,205.
Downtown parking enforcement resumed in 2009 after a six-year hiatus. The city then put the enforcement – which had generated about 100 tickets per month – on hold in August 2010 after the second of two temporary parking attendants fulfilled their commitments.
In February of this year, the city announced it hired an attendant for downtown parking enforcement and began issuing warning tickets for overtime parking before fully re-implementing the program.
When parking was first reinstated in 2009, the cost for an overtime parking ticket was $35.
The following are some prior other amounts for parking penalties:
– $300: Parking in spaces designated for disabled persons
– $50: Parking within parkways; parking adjacent to schools; parking in areas where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited at all times; parking on narrow streets; and parking within curb markings
– $40: Greasing or repairing vehicles on streets; no parking between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.; parking auxiliary trucks on residential streets other than for loading/unloading; and violating loading zone restrictions
– $30: All other violations.
