""better align the parking operations of the City with revenue and collections processes housed in the Department of Finance, and abandoned automobile abatement functions housed in the Oakland Police Department." "[It will] streamline and improve the citations collection process," he said in the report. "Delays or inaccurate data in citations result in high rates of delinquency and decreased collectability revenue." He also said the move would facilitate traffic ticket payment plans, improve customer service, and strengthen financial management."
"OakDOT will continue to manage bus shelters and city-owned garages. In December, OakDOT parking chief Michael Ford wrote a letter to Mayor Lee and members of the City Council arguing that the decision to move his department over to finance did not go through "proper review" and was not based on a thorough analysis of "the potential impacts of a reorg on such things as grants and vendor relationships.""
Oakland intends to transfer most parking division staff from the Department of Transportation to the Finance Department, placing meter collection, abandoned auto tagging, processing, and citations collections under finance personnel. The finance director says the change will align parking operations with revenue and collections, streamline citations collection, enable traffic-ticket payment plans, improve customer service, and strengthen financial management, with minimal cost increases. Abandoned vehicle removal is proposed for the Oakland Police Department. OakDOT will retain responsibility for bus shelters and city-owned garages. OakDOT’s parking chief warned the reorganization lacked proper review and did not analyze impacts on grants and vendor relationships.
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