In February, council voted to increase parking fines for an expired meter from $3 to $5. The borough has been without a parking meter officer for several years.Ĭouncil hired Bethany Allera as a part-time police officer this week, and she and other day-shift officers will be responsible for issuing parking citations.īecause of budgetary restraints, Caporali said, there are no plans to hire a parking meter attendant. Mondays through Saturdays, Caporali said.
The parking meters are enforced from 10 a.m. You go to any place in America where there’s a commercial place, there’s going to be meters there.” “You cannot take the meters out of the commercial area,” Collini said. He said parking must remain controlled there. I don’t think it’s fair that you should be paying for parking and it’s in front of your house,” Collini said.īut Collini dispelled rumors that parking meters would be removed from the business district. “That’s a residential area off of Grant, and we’re getting rid of most of these meters that are in a residential area. Vandergrift Mayor Lenny Collini said all of the parking meters along Columbia and Grant avenues, located in the business district, are now recertified and in working order. All told, there were about 300 in the borough. Council felt the residents shouldn’t be penalized,” Caporali said.Ībout 45 parking meters will be removed, he said. “At one time when the business (district) was thriving, meters were installed on residential streets to deter employees from parking in residential areas - and at one time there were businesses in those areas. In addition, meters between Columbia and Franklin avenues are set to be removed. Police Chief Joe Caporali said meters in the residential sections of McKinley, Franklin and Washington avenues have or will be removed by borough employees as time allows. Vandergrift officials report that the process of removing parking meters from residential streets is underway.
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