Finance Committee - 4/18/2018 Page 5
Mr. Vayo
| am currently working through a project schedule with the staff at Pay-by-Phone and the target is to roll out
this service the weekend of June 2"°. | can’t commit to that but that is currently what we are working towards.
And that essentially involves resolving the coding of the various decals, ordering the decals and having our
parking and maintenance staff apply the decals to the several meters that we have in the City. Once that
happens, Pay-by-Phone will implement and pay for a pretty robust marketing campaign. Imagine when you
open up Facebook or you’re browsing the web, you will see advertisements to sign up for Pay-by-Phone. They
will also do targeting campaign ads with the merchants downtown too.
Alderman Laws
| am very excited about this and | have a few constituents who have reached out to me about this. | think it’s a
great thing and | recently saw, | think it was in San Antonio, they have been using a similar program to readjust
their traffic patterns and their parking situation and it has been wildly successful. So | think this is great.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you. Mr. Vayo is this going to be an upgrade to our current kiosk like on Main Street as well too that they
will be able to use the Pay-by-Phone there?
Mr. Vayo
They will be able to use the application on their cell phone to pay for parking anywhere we charge for parking.
But that doesn’t require any physical investment in the space so the kiosk will stay the same you'll just have
another method to pay.
Alderman O’Brien
Follow-up, to enhance this is there perhaps a chance of interoperability with other communities, is this a
popular type of a company we are choosing to go with so that our citizens such as the example, Manchester
perhaps or something like that can use the cell phone technology there?
Mr. Vayo
That’s a great question. Yes one of the criteria that we benchmarked or asked for information on for the RFP
was regional adoption of that application. So there are a couple of different companies that compete in this
market. Pay-by-Phone is one, Park Mobile is another and Passport Parking is the third. So these are the most
adopted applications for paying for parking regionally within the Northeast. | think Park Mobile may have
slightly more adoption than Pay-by-Phone but needless to say, if somebody in the Boston region is coming up
here, they will be familiar with this system.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else?
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Rail Consulting Services (Value: $0)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
AECOM
