Psycho Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 DC POLICE CHIEF LANIER'S ALL HANDS ON DECK PROGRAM D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced Friday that she will launch the second All Hands On Deck this weekend as part of her Summer Crime Initiative. The Summer Crime Initiative is designed to curb traditional spikes in crime experienced during the summer months. On Friday and Saturday, all available members of the Metropolitan Police Department, including administrative personnel, will work eight-hour tours of duty and will be placed in assignments throughout the city's seven police districts. Chief Lanier has also promised to take off the streets once and for all two men who are constantly seen fighting and never letting up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 Maybe you can concentrate on dc out sourcing its services instead. It might surprise you on how much dc really outsources? Rees I bet that it would really inflame the district residents. Just a thought. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7022702115.html Parking Meter Outsourcing Costs City, Report Says By Paul Duggan Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 28, 2007; Page B05 A D.C. government report issued yesterday describes the private management of parking meters in the city as a financial waste, saying the outsourcing not only failed to save money but drove up costs by nearly $9 million from 1999 to 2005. The system is riddled with other problems as well, the report says. Among the findings: The city improperly issued almost 7,000 tickets to vehicles parked at broken meters in that seven-year span, while residents' complaints about meters jumped from 3,652 in 1997, shortly before privatization, to 89,840 in 2005. The report, by the Office of the D.C. Auditor, cites an array of alleged inefficiencies by Affiliated Computer Services, the company hired to install and maintain 16,500 parking meters in the city. The auditors found that the D.C. Department of Transportation, which is responsible for keeping tabs on ACS, "generally was uninformed and disengaged from the details and quality of the contractor's performance." ACS, which is paid based on parking meter revenue, sometimes got more than it was entitled to, according to the auditor's findings, first reported yesterday by the Washington Examiner. When meters along streets are "bagged" with hoods because of construction, parades, funerals or other events, the people or companies involved pay the city a fee. ACS is not supposed to share in that money. However, from 1999 to 2005, the report says, "ACS billed, and the District inexplicably paid ACS, $644,952 in fees for bagged meter revenue." In a written response to the audit, the Transportation Department said the increase in complaints came about because it has become easier for people to register complaints via the Web and because record-keeping today has improved since 1997. The department also used a different formula in calculating the cost of parking-meter management under privatization and disputed the assertion that the city has not saved money by outsourcing the work. As for the complaints, the report found "no evidence that DDOT management ever investigated" the reasons for the increase. One reason for the surge in complaints: "The auditor found that although ACS failed repeatedly to repair parking meters within the 72-hour period specified in the privatization contract, the District continued issuing tickets for overtime or expired meter violations to vehicles parked at meters that were at the time inoperable." An examination of meter maintenance records, along with 734,578 parking tickets from 1999 to 2005, found that 6,888 tickets were issued to vehicles parked at meters that had been broken for at least three days, the report says. The fines totaled $159,975. ACS, which signed a 7 1/2 -year contract with the city in 1998, was paid $26.4 million from 1999 to 2005. The contract was extended for a year, then renewed in October for five more years, the Transportation Department said. A spokesman for ACS referred questions about the audit to the D.C. government. Acting transportation chief Emeka C. Moneme, who has been nominated by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) to head the department, told D.C. Council members at his confirmation hearing yesterday that the agency will be rigorous in keeping tabs on meters in the city. "One of the great things about our new contract is that we did make it performance-based," he said. For example, he said, under the new deal, 97 percent of the meters must be operable. After Sept. 11, 2001, the report says, federal officials asked the District to remove 2,278 meters around federal buildings for security reasons. The Transportation Department did so without negotiating compensation agreements with federal agencies, probably costing the city several million dollars in revenue, the audit found. When the auditors examined paperwork related to meters along seven sample traffic routes, ACS records showed that there were 1,906 meters on those routes. But the auditors found only 1,236, of which 197 were "completely inoperative." As for the 670 missing meters, "DDOT management had no clue . . . how many had been removed from service, the revenue implications of these removals, the reason for the removals or how long the meters had been removed." The report states that in 1993, the most profitable parking-meter year of the decade before privatization, the city took in $13.2 million in revenue against $1.1 million in expenses, for a net gain of $12.1 million -- a return of about $11 for each dollar spent. In the best year under privatization, 2003, the return was $2.63 per dollar spent. Based on the 1993 expenses of $1.1 million, adjusted for inflation, it would have cost the city $17.6 million to manage parking meters from 1999 to 2005, the report concludes. Instead, it paid ACS $26.4 million. Staff writer Nikita Stewart contributed to this report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted July 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 Human, Ask the people over at D.DOT and they will tell you that five years ago, I was offered the position at D.DOT to overseeing the parking meters because I was considered one of the most experienced persons in dealing with ACS but that job offer fell because of biases inside DC Office of Personnel where its director wanted her counsin to have that job not a white male. Net result, things with the meters are worse. Ask Terri Adams - terri-adams@dc.gov about how she offered me the job and DCOP gave its to a counsin of the director of DCOP. Maybe you can concentrate on dc out sourcing its services instead. It might surprise you on how much dc really outsources? Rees I bet that it would really inflame the district residents. Just a thought. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7022702115.html Parking Meter Outsourcing Costs City, Report Says By Paul Duggan Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 28, 2007; Page B05 A D.C. government report issued yesterday describes the private management of parking meters in the city as a financial waste, saying the outsourcing not only failed to save money but drove up costs by nearly $9 million from 1999 to 2005. The system is riddled with other problems as well, the report says. Among the findings: The city improperly issued almost 7,000 tickets to vehicles parked at broken meters in that seven-year span, while residents' complaints about meters jumped from 3,652 in 1997, shortly before privatization, to 89,840 in 2005. The report, by the Office of the D.C. Auditor, cites an array of alleged inefficiencies by Affiliated Computer Services, the company hired to install and maintain 16,500 parking meters in the city. The auditors found that the D.C. Department of Transportation, which is responsible for keeping tabs on ACS, "generally was uninformed and disengaged from the details and quality of the contractor's performance." ACS, which is paid based on parking meter revenue, sometimes got more than it was entitled to, according to the auditor's findings, first reported yesterday by the Washington Examiner. When meters along streets are "bagged" with hoods because of construction, parades, funerals or other events, the people or companies involved pay the city a fee. ACS is not supposed to share in that money. However, from 1999 to 2005, the report says, "ACS billed, and the District inexplicably paid ACS, $644,952 in fees for bagged meter revenue." In a written response to the audit, the Transportation Department said the increase in complaints came about because it has become easier for people to register complaints via the Web and because record-keeping today has improved since 1997. The department also used a different formula in calculating the cost of parking-meter management under privatization and disputed the assertion that the city has not saved money by outsourcing the work. As for the complaints, the report found "no evidence that DDOT management ever investigated" the reasons for the increase. One reason for the surge in complaints: "The auditor found that although ACS failed repeatedly to repair parking meters within the 72-hour period specified in the privatization contract, the District continued issuing tickets for overtime or expired meter violations to vehicles parked at meters that were at the time inoperable." An examination of meter maintenance records, along with 734,578 parking tickets from 1999 to 2005, found that 6,888 tickets were issued to vehicles parked at meters that had been broken for at least three days, the report says. The fines totaled $159,975. ACS, which signed a 7 1/2 -year contract with the city in 1998, was paid $26.4 million from 1999 to 2005. The contract was extended for a year, then renewed in October for five more years, the Transportation Department said. A spokesman for ACS referred questions about the audit to the D.C. government. Acting transportation chief Emeka C. Moneme, who has been nominated by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) to head the department, told D.C. Council members at his confirmation hearing yesterday that the agency will be rigorous in keeping tabs on meters in the city. "One of the great things about our new contract is that we did make it performance-based," he said. For example, he said, under the new deal, 97 percent of the meters must be operable. After Sept. 11, 2001, the report says, federal officials asked the District to remove 2,278 meters around federal buildings for security reasons. The Transportation Department did so without negotiating compensation agreements with federal agencies, probably costing the city several million dollars in revenue, the audit found. When the auditors examined paperwork related to meters along seven sample traffic routes, ACS records showed that there were 1,906 meters on those routes. But the auditors found only 1,236, of which 197 were "completely inoperative." As for the 670 missing meters, "DDOT management had no clue . . . how many had been removed from service, the revenue implications of these removals, the reason for the removals or how long the meters had been removed." The report states that in 1993, the most profitable parking-meter year of the decade before privatization, the city took in $13.2 million in revenue against $1.1 million in expenses, for a net gain of $12.1 million -- a return of about $11 for each dollar spent. In the best year under privatization, 2003, the return was $2.63 per dollar spent. Based on the 1993 expenses of $1.1 million, adjusted for inflation, it would have cost the city $17.6 million to manage parking meters from 1999 to 2005, the report concludes. Instead, it paid ACS $26.4 million. Staff writer Nikita Stewart contributed to this report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 I did some work for one of the republican groups out there in the past, and I created a really good database for them. I was replaced because one of their contributors made a large donation to their group. That's part, and parcel of politics in this town. I never took any offence to it because I know that, that is how it works in this town. Politics really is a very dirty business, look I've known people as well who were replaced because Political person A needs help from political person d, and political person d got his, or her daughter in a job that was way over their heads a job position that they could not handle. It's normal, it's politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted July 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Human, The problem is, the DC agencies might want you but DC Office of Personnel has the final say and if they want their person in, you are out no matter how much that upsets the agency. I did some work for one of the republican groups out there in the past, and I created a really good database for them. I was replaced because one of their contributors made a large donation to their group. That's part, and parcel of politics in this town. I never took any offence to it because I know that, that is how it works in this town. Politics really is a very dirty business, look I've known people as well who were replaced because Political person A needs help from political person d, and political person d got his, or her daughter in a job that was way over their heads a job position that they could not handle. It's normal, it's politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Are you going to run again for D.C. office? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted July 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Human, I now live in New York City. I changed careers to work for Pepsi-Cola as a regional marketing agent with DC being a part of my territory. If I run for office again, it will be as a Republican. Are you going to run again for D.C. office? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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