Sure would think that would have been a key contractual part.
"How many man hours are you planning per week?"
"OK put that in the contract."
One person at 40 hours. The city could have just hired their own and broke even or paid less.
Wonder if the contract is online? They don't patrol after 5 (or was it 6) pm.
In 2017....
Looks like it fell just short of passing.
But now there's these parking meter lobby groups gaining power throughout ND.
So probably just a matter of time.
I guess this has already slowly been happening. Interstate took over management of the ramps downtown a year ago.
Told the city it needed to raise rates.
The city raised rates.
I have to imagine gates and pay tickets to enter the ramps are inevitable.
Followed by parking meters throughout downtown.
With this new contract, the city recently added new "enforceable areas" for Interstate Parking:
This reminds me a Vice video I watched awhile go, Private companies come in to do parking enforcement.
Boots then become more popular. And then another "private company" comes in to fight that private companie's boots.
But parking boots are the past, windshields barnacles, are the future.
So GF is gonna subcontract downtown parking enforcement to a out of state company.
GF will pay them $85,000.
But the city says it "potentially needs two people downtown to cover enforcement."
Which makes sense parking enforcement is basically 80+ hour duty.
But if Interstate Parking hired two fulltime employees. They'd have zero profits.
It says the ticket revenue will go back to the city and not the out of state company.
How does this company make money?
Maybe they get their foot in the door and come back next year: "We lost money. We need part of the parking tickets."
City raises the cost per ticket by $10 to go to Interstate?
Other cities say these private parking companies set their own rates and issue their own tickets.
Or maybe there will be no more free parking and Interstate will convert the parking ramps to a pay and park.
Am I missing something?
I feel like there's more to this story that's not being told.
NCHC league play goalie stats this season so far:
Save %
ASU 3rd
UND 9th
GAA
ASU 4th
UND 9th
Text Oxbow, early Nov, team wouldn't win a playoff game without a goalie.
I thought I meant NCAA, guess it meant NCHC tourney playoffs.
Top 15?
There's only 60 college hockey programs and only about half of those even try.
But it was a general statement over the last decade of watching UND hockey. Not geared toward this game per se.
When you shoot the puck and made average goalies look hot,
That's a sign of a bad team.
Scared to pass it around, no chemistry, no trusting teammates.
Just shots.