Council loss on fines!

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Fri 25 Aug 2006 19:07
Council loss on fines! - cockle {P}
Our local council has revealed this week that they made a loss of £41k on parking enforcement last financial year.

tinyurl.com/o6wnm

Enforcement expenditure was £1.16m, fine income was £1.12m. According to the council this is because the level of fines haven't been increased by the Government.
Personally I put it down to the fact that the wardens have done a good job and educated drivers not to park illegally and therefore are unable to issue so many tickets because the big bad motorists are avoiding the fine by not doing the crime. A success story you would think. But the motorists' reward for being good, law-abiding citizens and using the car parks, at not inconsiderable expense, looks like it will be........ increased car parking fees, yet again, to offset the loss! The council spokesman you may note ' would not be drawn on whether the council was looking into raising car park charges to meet the shortfall' Trust me, with our local politicians that's about as close to an admission we're likely to get!
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Fri 25 Aug 2006 19:51
Council loss on fines! - Armitage Shanks {p}
It would be illuminating to see breakdown on the enforcement expenditure. They must have an office, some phones and computers and some people out dealing tickets. If they have 20 employees that is £58K each salaries and overheads. Who is this council - do tell? They have no idea about their finances anyway; a local council of mine had £500,000 stolen over 10 years by an employee and never even noticed! The lady in question spent the dosh on "Elvis Memorabilia"!
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Fri 25 Aug 2006 20:16
Council loss on fines! - Pugugly {P}
Who is this council - do tell? Southend according to the link.
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Fri 25 Aug 2006 20:55
Council loss on fines! - cockle {P}
They have no idea about their finances
anyway; a local council of mine had £500,000 stolen over
10 years by an employee and never even noticed! The
lady in question spent the dosh on "Elvis Memorabilia"!


Pu's correct, Southend and the Elvis reference would explain a lot, Southend United have two mascots, Sammy the Shrimp and.......... Elvis J Eel.
If you don't believe me have a look here tinyurl.com/zazvu
I always wondered where he came from....... now I know. :-)
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Fri 25 Aug 2006 23:43
Council loss on fines! - Bromptonaut
£1.12million is equal to approx 18,700 PCN's at £60 a pop. In practice many of those would be settled at the discounted rate of £30, so more like 22/23000. That's a lot of tickets every day.

What was the Councils total income from on/off street parking including the P&D etc charges from those who actually obeyed the rules??
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Sat 26 Aug 2006 02:27
Council loss on fines! - Quinny100
This is not uncommon, in fact many council's budgeted to only turn a profit on parking enforcement in the third year after decriminalisation. The capital costs of the systems required to administer the service must be quite high.

I was told by somebody who works in adminstration for parking enforcement that in their area, about 70% of tickets that they receive a complaint about are scrapped!
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Sat 26 Aug 2006 11:14
Council loss on fines! - yorkiebar
Typical council figures possibly?

Enforcement expenditure 1.x million??? Please! It would be cheaper to provide better parking areas etc?
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Sat 26 Aug 2006 11:23
Council loss on fines! - bell boy
i worked out it would have been cheaper to give every motorist that broke the parking laws 37 pence if they just went away ...........and collected their bounty at the town hall,..........
...(probably have to bring a rats tail in or something to prove some kind of authenticity?)
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