CITY HALL LOBBYISTS MAY LOSE FREE-PARKING PRIVILEGE.Byline: - Harrison Harrison, town (1990 pop. 13,425), Hudson co., NE N.J., an industrial suburb on the Passaic River opposite Newark; inc. 1869. The town has several foundries. Its manufactures include plastics, paperboard, and metal products. Sheppard Sheppard can refer to:
Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. officials said Wednesday that they might end their free- parking policy for City Hall lobbyists. As the system works now, lobbyists can call up a City Council member or other city official and ask for free parking to be arranged, and they usually get it. The same privilege can be extended to other visitors if they know someone in City Hall with authority to get their names added to a daily list of those approved for free parking. City employees and elected officials who park at City Hall or City Hall East pay about $44 a month, deducted de·duct v. de·duct·ed, de·duct·ing, de·ducts v.tr. 1. To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract. 2. To derive by deduction; deduce. v.intr. from their paychecks, for the privilege, while private lots in the area charge about $15 a day and $150 a month. Councilman Dennis Zine said lobbyists use their free visitor-parking privilege too often, consuming city staff time too often to arrange it and giving them a benefit that city employees don't have. ``It's an issue I don't think is going to bankrupt BANKRUPT. A person who has done, or suffered some act to be done, which is by law declared an act of bankruptcy; in such case he may be declared a bankrupt. 2. It is proper to notice that there is much difference between a bankrupt and an insolvent. them (and) puts a level playing field See net neutrality. out for everyone,'' Zine said. Officials in the Department of General Services said they are looking at a fair pricing plan for a lobbyist to buy a monthly pass at City Hall East. Zine said a rate in the $50 range would be appropriate for lobbyists who park at City Hall several times a month. Howard Sunkin, a lobbyist with Cerrell Associates, told a City Council committee that he has no objections to paying for parking. ``Speaking now as an individual, I have no problem whatsoever paying an appropriate fee to use city facilities to park,'' Sunkin said. ``I would personally have no problem; neither would my firm.'' |
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