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Fr ­ <br />J U L 2 1986 <br />BOOK 64 FnIH890 <br />The motor vehicle section of the tax collector's office is presently <br />over -burdened with adherence to rules and regulations promulgated by <br />the Division of Motor Vehicles. Our clerical personnel serve from <br />two hundred to five hundred people per day. To require that these <br />personnel expend additional time searching out parking offenders is <br />hardly worth the amount of revenue which would be derived. <br />It is my understanding that the number of unpaid tickets is somewhat <br />less than a hundred. If three or four thousand were outstanding, then <br />maybe it should be considered. There is no way to justify to the other <br />fifty thousand -plus citizens the additional time that would have to be <br />taken on every registration to try to collect such a few tickets. <br />Should the Board decide to go ahead and pass this ordinance notwith- <br />standing my strong objection, I would suggest that the ordinance be <br />enacted on a trial period of no longer than six months. <br />Very my yo rs, <br />�L <br />ene E. Morris, Tax Collector <br />Chairman Scurlock opened the Public Hearing and asked if <br />anyone wished to be heard in this matter. <br />John McKirchy, Assistant City Attorney for Vero Beach, <br />advised that the City Council is on record in favor of this <br />ordinance which would enable the enforcement of payment of <br />parking tickets, as the City's only recourse now is to seek civil <br />suit. He believed that the provisions in the proposed ordinance <br />are very fair. <br />Commissioner Wodtke felt it is difficult to try and <br />determine the impact this ordinance might have, and asked if the <br />City had the ability to go to Small Claims Court to collect these <br />tickets, <br />Attorney McKirchy believed it would not be worthwhile for <br />the City to go through that process and explained the diffi- <br />culties incurred in going that route. <br />Commissioner Wodtke pointed out that if this ordinance is <br />passed in Indian River County, people could always go down to Ft. <br />Pierce to purchase their license plates. He advised that the Tax <br />Collector sold 700 license plates yesterday and if his staff had <br />to look over a list to see if each person had any parking <br />violations, it would involve considerable time and effort and <br />60 <br />