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F. Employee Parking Solutions Downtown stakeholders have indicated that there is not a good parking solution for part-time shift employees in the study area. Because of this, employees take up high demand parking in Washington Plaza, moving their vehicles or rubbing chalk every two hours to avoid enforcement or park in nearby residential neighborhoods. This reduces available parking for patrons to the Plaza, and residential areas and results in lower productivity for the shift workers. Although the recommended reduction in the cost for daily parking on the top deck of the Estudillo Garage is expected to improve this situation, the following options for employee parking may also be considered. Option 1: Part-time Discounted Employee Parking (PDEP) ■ A permit program that allows free or low cost parking in the Estudillo garage for part-time or low income employees • Based on income, requires pay -stub and application for permit • Discount/Rate: ■ As an example - Sacramento provides a 2/3" discount from full hourly rate of $3.00. o Potential Discounts for qualified PT/LI employees: o $1/day or $0.10/hour for qualified part-time parkers; or o Free - similar to validation • To ensure this approach is successful the City should adopt the proposed downtown parking regulations shown on Figure 2 in addition to regular enforcement on -street, in plaza and in nearby residential areas. Otherwise employees will not be motivated to adjust their current habits. Option 2: Employee Parking Validation — via codes • Validation Codes would be generated daily by parking management software (when back on- line) • Employer members login or receive daily email with set # of codes for their employees • Employees would enter codes in garage kiosk or pay by phone app/text along with license plate and can park for unlimited hours (assume a shift is 4-6 hours?) o App/text would be necessary if they didn't get code until at place of work. • The cost would be covered by employers and free to employees Option 3: Employee Parking Validation — via tokens ■ This approach is probably the most inconvenient for workflow of employee/employer time and also subject to "leakage/loss" • This only works in a pay in advance model, so the employee would need tokens in advance of shift — or would have to run out and run back to get them • Depending upon how the tokens are set — up the time periods can be for a pre -determined period of time. • The City's current kiosk technology will need to be upgraded per recommendation H.3 3 Since the City is in process of interviewing replacement vendors, it is very likely that City can require that operator/integrator must work with or upgrade existing equipment.