Fiscal Note
This Resolution would amend the 2008 Parking Utility adopted Capital and Operating budgets to shift $155,000 from the Parking Utility’s operating budget for its Wayfinding Signage ($500,000 is budgeted in capital assets) to the Utility’s capital budget for Parking Revenue Equipment (Account No. 810421, Project No. 7, “Parking Revenue Equipment”) to convert the current PARCS system to a ZMS system. Because the funding is from Parking Utility reserves, there is no net effect on the overall Parking Utility budget.
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SUBSTITUTE - Amending the Parking Utility’s 2008 Adopted Capital and Operating Budgets in order to convert the current CTR revenue equipment software (PARCS) to Zeag (ZMS) software and make the associated hardware changes. This would also approve a sole source purchase from ZEAG (USA) Inc. to make these changes. Zeag will also maintain the software/hardware through assuming the CTR maintenance contract which is currently $51,804/year.
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WHEREAS, the Parking Utility's revenue equipment in its garages and Brayton Lot is manufactured by ZEAG (USA), Inc. (headquartered in with regional commercial and technical support facilities in Minnesota) and maintained by CTR Systems, Inc. (headquartered in Pennsylvania);
WHEREAS, this $3 million dollar revenue equipment investment is the backbone to our system controlling entries/exits, revenue control, employee activity, coupons and many other elements of a complex system;
WHEREAS, CTR is a vendor distributor for ZEAG with its customer base on the east coast of the United States and ZEAG has its direct customer base in the mid-west with customers in Minneapolis and Chicago area;
WHEREAS, our customers and the Parking Utility will be served better through a direct relationship with ZEAG the equipment manufacturer, allowing the utility to move forward on broader projects such as real-time occupancy signs/web sites;
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Supervisor has approved a sole source purchase from ...
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