The Civic Center Auditorium’s parking systems, which rakes in about $1 million annually, are missing the necessary reporting and tracking controls required by staff to manage parking, according to city staff reports.
City officials standardized its parking equipment with SkiData equipment, distributed only by Sentry Control Systems, and will consider utilizing $231,761 to update three parking areas at the Civic Center, according to the staff report. The equipment will include ticket spitters, gates, cash registers and computers to assist management, said a spokesperson from the Civic Center.
Two temporary parking areas will feature parking equipment that city employees may access with a keycard, to accommodate overflow from the Civic Center, the staff report read. One of the lots is located at Ocean Avenue and Vicente Terrace and the other, on Main Street, across from City Hall.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 11, 2006. Read the original PDF.