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Parking perking Strong May pushes revenue up, but new parking division’s enforcement efforts lead to 277% increase in tickets for the month. For Memorial Day weekend, ParkMobile payments grew 56%, kiosk payments went up 10% and total parking receipts were up 28%. Citations for the holiday weekend — up 219%. — Page 3
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OC Today-Dispatch
JUNE 14, 2024
JUNE 14, 2024
OC Today-Dispatch
May parking revenue up 14%, citations jump 277%
Transportation staff report payment, ticket increases within town’s new division By Bethany Hooper Associate Editor (June 14, 2024) Officials say parking revenues and citations are up as a result of increased visitors and the implementation of a new parking division. Transit Manager Rob Shearman told members of the Ocean City Transportation Committee Tuesday that parking payments and citations increased during the month of May. In a month-over-month report, nonticket revenues, or revenues generated from parking fees, increased 14%, while parking tickets increased 277%. “When we talked last month about how April was slightly down year over year, we can now say May was up year over year,” he said. “And overall, it was basically a break even. So, so far so good. We’re on track to bring in at least the revenue we brought in last year. I think we’re going to see increases in those numbers as the summer progresses.” The town’s new parking division
reports parking revenues were down $45,500 in April and up $45,821 dollars in May. When compared to last May, revenues from Flowbird remained steady at $209,100, while revenues from ParkMobile increased 39%, to $163,064. “You can see there were pretty good increases year over year,” he told the committee. “We focus on the total non-ticket revenue. That’s counting payments through ParkMobile and payments through the kiosk, which is a 14% increase year over year for the month of May.” Looking at Memorial Day weekend specifically, ParkMobile payments increased 56%, kiosk payments increased 10% and total parking payments increased 28%. Citations for the holiday weekend went up 219% and invoices issued at the Inlet parking lot went up 6%. “That is the automated invoices issued by the camera system at the Inlet lot,” Shearman explained. “So those numbers are comparable but again we’re slightly up this year as well. The Inlet lot was pretty full over the weekend. There’s not a lot of room for growth there, but it was up 6%.” See OFFICIALS Page 6
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