Ridgewood to purchase canisters to collect coins from meters
FEBRUARY 27, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY STEPHANIE ALBERICO
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The Village Council moved forward on Wednesday with a new parking policy for Cottage Place and a resolution to award a contract to purchase secure canisters for meters.
The council also agreed to begin using Park Mobile, the cell phone application that allows people to use an online account and credit card to pay for parking.
New collection mode
The village will be replacing buckets with enclosed canisters and carts with lock boxes to transport coinage from Ridgewood’s parking meters.
The move comes in response to a theft of approximately $460,000 worth of quarters by former public works employee Thomas Rica, who stole the coins from a locked room in Village Hall. A recent audit released in early February revealed that an additional $377,000 had vanished from the coin room, totaling approximately $850,000.
New collection containers and the corresponding cart system will better secure the coinage that is collected twice a month from village parking meters, said Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/canisterswill-keepquarterssecure-1.1279203
P J where did you dig up that picture ? good one.
Can anyone offer a reasonable explanation as to why Ridgewood ever collected money in open buckets?
Will the expected Parking deck building need these kinds of coin meters ?
I don’t know 9:13 I use to see the coin collector walk around with one of these many years ago. don’r know why the got rid of it
It really makes no difference whether the coins are collected in buckets, wheel barrows, or secure containers. Theft will occur at the weakest point in the process, which starts with the meter, and end with the coins being deposited at the bank.
You Think Declan! Thanks for that little tidbit.
Each bucket could contain as much as $10K. Surprised no thief has ever hit someone over the head, grabbed on, and run to a waiting car.
Simply have the Navy install sonar at Village hall to detect jingling quarters at the exits.
Gonna be tough for local watering holes when Village workers can no longer pay in quarters
YOU MEAN THE ONE AND ONLY COIN BOY. oh he’s gone with the wind.