Finance Committee - 4/18/2018 Page 4
Mayor Donchess
Correct. Anyone else?
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for “Pay-By-Cell Services” (Value: $0)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
PAY-BY-PHONE TECHNOLOGIES.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Now we have James Vayo here to explain this proposed arrangement. So just sit wherever you feel most
comfortable.
James Vayo, Downtown Specialist for the Economic Development Division
Hi and thank you for having me, James Vayo, Downtown Specialist for the Economic Development Division. |
am here to provide you with a brief description of the contract before you with pay-by-phone which is for a
mobile cell application service to pay for parking meters in downtown Nashua. Essentially it was identified
about 24 months ago, it was identified through public outreach and the Downtown Improvement Committee
that it would be of convenience if the City had additional methods and alternative methods to pay for parking at
the existing city parking meters.
Currently a majority of our meters are coin meters and they accept a rather obscure pre-pay card that you can
purchase at the Nashua Public Library. It’s not highly utilized. Pay-by-phone basically offers a digital
alternative to the lack of credit card functionality of our coin meters and is accepted anywhere where we
charge for parking by the hour. Pay-by-phone is an application that would sit on your Android or |Phone, smart
device, it could be a tablet, it could be a computer frankly. The application keeps track of your information
about your vehicle registration and also keeps track of information about your credit card payment
methodology. And then when you arrive in town and you seek to park your car at a metered space instead of
having to take out coins or your credit card and physically walk to the meter, you would just punch in a four
digit code that would exist on a decal on the side of all of the existing physical meters and signage where there
are no meters such as on Main Street, we have the pay station or the garages which have a pay and display
station. The sticker and the decals will have unique codes based on what part of the City, what zone you are
parking in and what lot you are in. So if you park in the Spring Street lot you might have Code 1234 and if you
are parked on Main Street it might have Code 1112 and thus we will be able to collect a significant amount of
data about where people are parking and when and we will be able to use that data to keep track of who has
paid and who hasn't paid at the various metered locations in Downtown Nashua.
Mayor Donchess
Questions?
Alderman Laws
How soon after we approve this would it be going into effect?
