Council Grants Stay of Execution to Abusive Booting Practices

Downtown councilman Steve Fulop wanted to end abuses by the parking authority in downtown neighborhoods. The parking authority has been booting cars when they should have only been writing tickets for zone violations; the boots should only be attached to cars after the third violation. But the boot generates more revenue for the city.

City council members sent Fulop's ordinance to committee, reports the Journal, for several revisions. Jersey City Heights councilman Bill Gaughan reprimanded Fulop for suggesting that the city should stop balancing the budget with downtown parking tickets introducing a bill that "didn't make any sense."