WEST VANCOUVER parking
offenders will be seeitig a new
type of ticket attached to their
vehicles in April.

Michael
Becker

HIGH TECH

The West Vancouver Police
Department is the first police
department in Canada to install a
computerized ticketing system.

The system does away with the
time-consuming and menial
paperwork involved in the chase
for offenders who neglect to pay
their fines.

Said West Vancouver Cp!. Bob
Tait, ‘‘It’s a process of
automating as many steps as
possible. And the public will see a
ticket that looks much like a cash
register receipt.’’

To keep the ticket from turning
to a pulpy mush in the rainforest
climate of West Vancouver, the
strip of paper will be enclosed in a
new, waterproof envelope.

The police department adopted
the $40,000 system after finding
that its parking ticket-processing
time was becoming unmanageabie.

The municipality issues roughly
6,000 parking tickets annually for
parking bylaw infractions. During
an average four-hour shift work-
ing the “‘corridor’’ between 13th
Street and 25th Street, a given
bylaw enforcement officer might
issue 25 tickets, Monday to Fri-
day.

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In the summer, ilegal parkers
in Horseshoe Bay alone will
receive 100 tickets daily.

According to the police, about
50 per cent of those ticketed pay
up on the fine owing within 30
days. But police found it took one
full-time worker to process the
paper necessary to track down the
tardy 50 per cent.

“It was quite clear that the
system couldn't carry on. The
amount of time to process that
parking ticket was running up to
nine months in some instances,”’
Tait said.

The chosen system is produced
by Texas-based Cardinal Track-
ing. The package includes a
custom-made database and a
computer equipped with a cash
drawer and printer.

In the field, bylaw enforcement
officers trade in ticket pads and
pens for handheld Epson com-
puters, each fitted with a touch-
sensitive screen and a_ built-in
ticket printer.

Once returned to the office, in-
formation gathered in the hand-
held units is loaded into the
database, where it is easily ma-
nipulated for reporting purposes

BUSINESS

Sunday, March 10, 1991 -— North Shore News - 27

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

WEST VANCOUVER issues approximately 6000 parking tickets
annually, and the new computerized system will cut down on the

paperwork considerably.

and ticketing follow-through.

The new system is presently
undergoing testing and fine-tun-
ing.

Said West: Vancouver bylaw en-

forcement officer #412 Lynn
Earle, ‘In the long run the big
picture is pleasing. It’s going to
take away a lot of the labor-inten-
sive work.”’

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WATERMAIN CLEANING

Between March 12th and March 26th 1991, the City of North Vancouver Water Works will be
cleaning the watermain in the area between Keith Road and 19th Street from the West Boulevard

The cleaning is part of an
ongoing maintenance
program designed to
provide continued depend-
able water service. Resi-
dents in the designated
cleaning area as well as on
surrounding streets may
experience discoleration of
the water supply. The
discoloration is caused by
sediment being stirred up
during the cleaning process
and is harmless. Water
clarity should return to
normal the following

moming.

During the cleaning process specific blocks within the area will
be without water from 8:00am to 4:30pm. These residents will
be notified by letter a day or two prior to the scheduled cleaning

session.

Details of the watermain cleaning program will be on display at City
Hail during Local Government Awareness Day, Thursday April 25,

1991.

Any difficulties or questions should be directed to the Water
Section of the City of North Vancouver Operations Division

at 987 7155.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

C.Gale,P.Eng
City Engineer

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