Parking meters to come on stream Sept 1

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From Left: Mayor Patricia Chase-Green, Councillor Oscar Clark and Councillor Junior Garret brief the media on the outcome of their trips to Mexico City and Panama which saw them interacting with National Parking Systems/Smart City Solutions which has been given a contract to provide the city of Georgetown with a parking platform.
From Left: Mayor Patricia Chase-Green, Councillor Oscar Clark and Councillor Junior Garret brief the media on the outcome of their trips to Mexico City and Panama which saw them interacting with National Parking Systems/Smart City Solutions which has been given a contract to provide the city of Georgetown with a parking platform.

The city of Georgetown will have a functioning parking meter system as of September 1, 2016. This is according to Mayor Patricia Chase-Green who at a press conference yesterday told reporters that the council, under her direction, took a deliberate decision not to share the contract between the city and National Parking Systems/Smart City Solutions (NPS/SCS) as it is a “private document of the administration”.

According to a statement read by Chase-Green, the previous council, in November 2015, entered into an agreement with (NPS/SCS) to provide a parking platform which will “improve mobility, increase parking space availability and turnover, reduce traffic congestion in Georgetown and pay a share of its revenue to our city.”

When questioned she stated that present administration inclusive of herself and the town clerk made a decision not to share the contract out of fear that the opportunity for this foreign direct investment would be stolen from the city.