Not Very convient for residents of Ward 2&3. Why not Bee-Bee School

I'll do my best to make at least one of these meetings. I'd love to hear what the newest version of this proposal is. I already disagree with the whole thing, so I'll just listen. Don't want anyone wondering where I stand on the issue.

Think free is great, have been paying for resident parking stickers for many years to park in front of our own house. Don't object to paying for the visitor pass. Just wish the current stickers and passes covered overnight parking as well. Stickers only keep the street clear of T commuters parking during the day. Anyone can park at night and winter parking can be a major problem.

How much time is this admin going to waste on this subject? It is a thinly veiled excuse to give more jobs to friends and family. How about enforcing the rules we already have? Didn't the new budget get more license plate reading cameras for the police cars? If this much time and energy was spent on bringing new and good business into the city the need to nickel and dime the citizens wouldn't be an issue.

Enough of taking the lazy way out councilors! We told you less than a year ago we were not interested in your little tax so just quit it! Doesn't Kinnon know the meaning of the phrase, "No, thanks!"? He cannot handle not getting his way so he just keeps pushing a dead horse.

Hey I hope they get it done this time. We told you yes last meeting I went to at the Linden. Please please get this done sick of all the commuters parking on my street all day and the idiots down the street who have afterhours parties so often. Just want my peace back. Annie O is full or wanting more public safety but has no way to pay for it. Great idea please do it!

Michael: If you have commuters parking on your street all day, this sticker program will not help you. This program is for overnight parking. Most of the commuter affected streets have programs. Maybe you should look into making your street off limits to day time commuters and leave the rest of us out of it. Apparently you did not pay attention at the meeting you went to.

This program is a joke. So if they are registered in another city they can still buy a sticker?

Why have a meeting if the plans are already made.

Once again Annie full of baloney. I called my Councilor and was told its 24 hours a day except, weekends, and holidays which is only at night. So it will take care of those commuters parking in front of my house every day and it will take care of the jerks having the parties after hours every week until 4 am in the morning with ten cars rolling it at 12 am. You are so full of bad info. I just hope nobody buys into your blather.

Oh and before you go off the sticker is going to be free initially for all of us paying or excise tax and yes you can have guests with the guest passees. I for one think its long overdue.

Michael: Who exactly is going to enforce this 24hr policy week days and at night on weekends? Did your councilor mention color coding the wards? How much would we pay each year for guest passes and isn't there a restriction as to how long this guest can park overnight each year? Who will keep track of that? Does the sticker have a magic power to keep people from parking in front of your house or is it a person who enforces the power of the sticker? I don't know about anyone else but I call the police directly when there is a party going on which keeps me awake. You would have to wait for one of those who gets hired by the city to maybe take a ride by your house to notice these outsiders.

Maybe those partyers are FROM Malden and would already have a sticker. Then what would you do? It seems we are finding that a lot of the drugs and violence are coming from those who live here already in Malden. What difference would a sticker make?

Did your councilor mention the cost of putting up signs to indicate we have parking regulations? The fact we don't have signs is the way to beat a ticket for parking on street cleaning days where there are no signs. Where is this money coming from? More money lost on this "revenue" (tax). Have you ever spoken to your councilor to restrict your street? My street has no problems with parking nor do many other wards not near the T.

The sticker may be free the first time (like we all got free trash bags) but from then on we pay. I've also heard the rumblings of raising the trash tax and wonder if it is true as no one has opened that topic up again. Nice way to get more homeowners to come to this city: You must pay for your trash, to park and there are no shopping options inside the city other than dollar stores. The crime numbers were fudged to get a "Great place to raise a family" designation only to lose out on a 3 year $500,000/yr grant. Where did we get that replacement money? I imagine Mayor Gary is finding money which has been hidden in accounts but doesn't know how to explain it without throwing the former Mayor under the bus. Until we have transparency, I don't believe there isn't money there.

Michael, I believe it is you who have had a little too much koolaid with your baloney sandwich. Open your eyes and stop being so gullible.

The question would be are you going to enforce it? I live on Hanover St and a car repair place on Eastern Ave has taken it upon themselves to park their cars they have waiting for repair on Hanover St. My wife has called numerous times to the parking enforcement dept and they have taken no action. Also, there is a buisness at the corner of Hanover and Eastern Ave whose employees have taken it upon themselves to park on Hanover all day. Mind you they have a parking lot but still park on Hanover all day. Again, I will be glad to pay for the permit but what is the city going to do to permitless parkers? Based on their record - nothing and I will have paid for a permit that has no value!

Frank you bring up a great point. We have a traffic department, why are they not enforcing these rules already? If this program goes through and they hire people to implement which you know they will and it does not generate the revenue they say it will, the program is not going to go away like (PAYT) and anyone they hire is not going to lose their job.

I agree with Frank but have called myself on out of state car that parks in front of my house quite a bit. They say nothing they can do as all streets have no restrictions anybody can park there unless for too many days. Except streets that are in Train zone which you can't park on without a sticker. So I don't think it is the traffic or police they have no right to ticket today if I understand right.

What happens when churches, funeral homes, schools have gatherings during the day and large numbers of visitors have to park? Are churches, non-profits, shelters, baseball games at local parks, delivery drivers from out of town all exempt? How in heaven's name is this going to be enforced? Where's the enforcement money to put up signs and hire people round the clock going to come from? There's either going to be a tax or some kind of across the board fee somewhere to get this thing implemented. This can't cost "nothing" to implement, even if we buy the line that it will somehow pay for more police officers, "eventually".

THE SEPTEMBER 24TH MEETING AT FERRYWAY HAS BEEN POSTPONED BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED SAFETY MEETING AT THE LINDEN SCHOOL...

Joe G. From what I remember from the last time, funeral homes are in business districts and those didn't need stickers, big churches have parking lots and are usually in or near business districts and weekends sticker wasn't needed when they have there biggest gatherings, non profits and shelters in business districts. Delivery drivers think you are getting a little silly. Baseball games is a good one and good question don't remember that one from last time.

City councilors were stumped tonight. They did NOT fully consider churches in their parking proposals. Barbara Murphy, Spadafora, Kinnon and others are going back to debate how to deal with the church issue. There was at least one other issue that they admitted that they hadn't considered, but I don't recall what it was.
A marketing executive chided Kinnon for using scare tactics tonight to present the parking sticker program. Other residents chided the methodologies used. Other councilors had to bail out Kinnons eyeball numbing pie chart filled presentation.
Kinnon admitted, when I asked where the startup funding to implement all of this would come from, that they were going to move the costs out to other capital programs and "Bond" the city out some more. Guaranteed revenue from the program would then flow like honey. Yep. Can you smell that? The sweet scent somewhere of our taxes going up to help fund this, despite all the rhetoric of free stickers...
They have dumped most of the bad ideas that would have deep-sixed this whole thing, so it may have a good chance of passing this time, even though I'm still leery of it. They got rid of the color coded nonsense about which ward you were in, from last year.

There was not a lot of good thinking and planning behind this idea in the first place. I strongly urge the city council to go back to the drawing board and come away with a better proposal, with input from residents and taxpayers. Do a better job, city councilors, that's what you get paid for and why you get elected.

Again using the lazy way out: taxing and spending. How many family and friends will end up on the city payroll due to this scheme? Instead of streamlining our city government, this is an excuse to grow it. Wake up Malden! This is PAYT on wheels!

It's bad enough I can't get my relatives to move OUT of Malden, now I have to get a guest pass just to park on a street that otherwise has NO parking restrictions!?
What the hell do Malden residents pay TAXES for!? A FEE/hidden tax for this and that nonsense is insane.

Lol, so Mr. Kinnon and Friends thinks this sticker program will help hire more policemen? In what, 10 years? How much does a new hire policeman get paid in Malden? $35-$40,000 something? This is NOTHING new in Massachusetts. It seems every city govt is really bad at math.