Denver Ticket 'Performance Goals' Are Not Quotas, Spokeswoman Says
Denver's Parking Ticket Take Rises By $3.6 Million
POSTED: 10:56 am MST January 30, 2009
DENVER -- The city of Denver issued 33,000 more parking tickets and collected $3.6 million more in fines in 2008 than the year before, but officials said it is not an effort to make up for budget shortfalls.According to reports, the city issued nearly 619,000 parking tickets and collected nearly $20 million in fines in 2008. That's up from 585,000 tickets and $16.4 million in fines in 2007.City spokeswoman Ann Williams classified a document requiring parking enforcement officers write at least 79 tickets per shift to cars blocking street sweepers as "performance goals" and not a ticket quota.
Although the number of tickets rose by about 6 percent, fine revenue rose more than 20 percent. Williams says an increase in fines accounts for that.
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