OCEAN CITY – A new division under the transportation department will oversee all paid parking activities in town.
In a work session Tuesday, the Ocean City Council voted 6-1 to create a new parking division under the town’s transportation department. The division would fall under the leadership of Transit Manager Rob Shearman and would feature a new full-time parking manager and seven or eight part-time parking enforcement officers.
“To have a revenue source and, frankly, a system that is fairly complex and not have a person be in charge of it, I think is a mistake,” City Manager Terry McGean told the council this week.
Currently, paid parking in Ocean City generates an average of $6 million in revenue each year. However, activities associated with the management of paid parking are dispersed among five different departments and five different parking vendors.
To that end, McGean presented the Mayor and Council on Tuesday with a request to form a parking division within public works’ transportation department. He said the division would be staffed with a full-time parking manager and between seven and eight part-time parking enforcement officers, two of which will be on duty during all paid parking hours.
Parking should be FREE !!! Everywhere !!!! They make More than Enough on Everything Else !!!! FACT
Don’t turn OC into DC !!!!!! Bike cops on Segways writing tickets all day / even putting Boots on cars !!!!!
Charging for parking pisses people off !!! Penny Pinching will keep Tourists AWAY !!!!!
“Two meter maids” for Ocean City…. You’ve gotta be kidding…. 50 would not be enough to make a dent in the problem. Too little, too late.
New penny pinching division !
Where is Shearman going to work? Looks like somebody has their eye soon on someone else taking over his current job when he takes over as the queen meter maid.
They make enough $$$$$ on the Buses & Don’t need to charge for PARKING !!!!!!