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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