Posts Tagged parking meters
I Told You So
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on March 9th, 2012
There’s nothing as annoying as someone who tells you “I told you so.” It’s a taunt that’s anything but gracious. So I’ll try to throttle my desire to do just that, but it won’t be easy. When the Ballard Administration entered into a fifty-year contract to manage the city’s parking meters with a consortium headed by [...]
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Parking Meter Delusions
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government, Random Blogging on October 6th, 2011
According to media reports, in last night’s debate between Melina Kennedy (no relation!) and Greg Ballard, the Mayor strongly defended his record. He cited crime reduction (a claim that can be considered true if you count only certain crimes, and ignore those annoying statistics about aggravated assaults and the like) and the privatization of parking [...]
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Ballard Administration, Part 2
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on August 23rd, 2011
After my post yesterday, I got an email from a former Republican who is evidently no fan of our Accidental Mayor. He had read the recent IBJ article–which he characterized as a “puff piece”–in which the reporter uncritically repeated the administration’s claim that the parking meters are “netting” additional revenues since they were privatized in [...]
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About that Fifty-Year Parking Deal……
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on April 5th, 2011
Advance Indiana notes an interesting quote from the New York Post: “From 2001 to 2005, Goldsmith was senior vice president of Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. Last year, his old firm landed a 50-year contract from Indianapolis to manage all parking meters for that city. Under the contract, Affiliated even gets the money from tickets [...]
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