City of Saskatoon considers collections for over $6M in parking tickets

The City of Saskatoon is readying connected collecting what is owed from unpaid parking tickets fixed successful nan metropolis complete nan past 4 years.

City management said it is considering a collections-based attack to get costs for unpaid parking tickets.

The metropolis has already been looking astatine ways to amended connected its postulation and a study coming earlier council’s proscription committee connected Tuesday looks astatine manufacture metrics astir nan usage of a collections agency.

“We’ll return that accusation and look astatine determining tin we do this in-house, aliases would it make much consciousness to perchance tender this retired to a third-party agency?” said Matt Grazier, nan city’s head of organization standards.

The study shows complete $6.1 cardinal successful outstanding parking tickets issued up to nan extremity of 2021.

As of April of this year, conscionable complete 12,000 conveyance owners person 2 aliases much outstanding fines and are taxable to having their vehicles booted, towed and impounded.

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Should nan metropolis determine to return nan attack of involving collections, management says group tin expect to perceive from nan metropolis — particularly out-of-town offenders.

“Out-of-town people could commencement to spot further letters going retired either from nan metropolis aliases from a third-party postulation agency,” Graizer said.

City management hopes to person much clarity connected what attack to return to cod connected unpaid tickets sometime successful nan fall.

— pinch files from Gates Guarin, Global News