HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 026-2009RESOLUTION NO. 26-2009
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BURLINGAME ADJUSTING FINES FOR MUNICIPAL CODE AND
STATE VEHICLE CODE PARKING FINES
WHEREAS, both the California Vehicle Code and Title 13 of the Burlingame Municipal
Code regulate the parking of vehicles on City streets and other areas;
WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code Section 40203.5 authorizes the City Council to
establish penalties for parking violations; and
WHEREAS, immediately after City Council adjusted parking fines in December of
2008, the State of California, in a little -noticed legislation (SB 1407), appropriated an additional
$4.50 from every City parking fine for court facility construction purposes, resulting in a
significant monetary loss to the City; and
WHEREAS, in order to restore those lost funds to the City's budget and to bring City
parking fines in parity with surrounding municipalities, the City Council desires to adjust parking
penalties.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCH, OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME
RESOLVES AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
1. The City Council finds all of the above -recited facts and those stated in the
accompanying staff report, to be true and correct.
2. The City Council hereby adjusts the California Vehicle Code and Burlingame
Municipal Code parking violation penalties in accord with the schedule attached
hereto as Exhibit "A".
The City Council orders that the revised schedule of parking penalties shall be
effective upon adoption.
Ann Keighran, May
I, Mary Ellen Kearney, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 6th day of
April, 2009, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BAYLOCK, DEAL, KEIGHRAN, NAGEL, O'NAHONY
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE I I
Mary Elleli Kearney,'City Clerk