Vaida Pavolas From:
[email protected] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 2:17 PM To: Mike Nichols; Ginger Marshall; David Zito; Jewel Edson; Judy Hegenauer; Amy Uruburu; City Attorney; Angela Ivey; Vaida Pavolas; Bill Chopyk; Corey Andrews Cc:
[email protected] Subject: Redflex contract proposed renewal Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed To the Honorable Solana Beach Officials, I believe you should terminate the Redflex Photo Light Enforcement Program and remove the cameras for several reasons. 1) The program does serious economic damage to the businesses in Solana Beach, their existing and potential employees, and ultimately to your tax base. Per the Federal Reserve, money circulates about six times a year. About $350 per ticket goes to Arizona, Australia and Sacramento to produce about 6 x $350 = $2,100 of total sales of goods and services (turnover) in a year. Almost none of that turnover can occur in the Solana Beach economic area because most of that money is gone forever. If about 3,000 citations are paid in a year, this means about 3,000 x $2,100 = $6,300,000 of sales of goods and services will occur in Arizona, Australia, and wherever Sacramento spends their portion of each ticket's revenue. Obviously, not all of that turnover would occur in the Solana Beach area, but some significant portion would - and the program prevents that turnover from having a chance to happen in your economic community because the money is gone. 2) These 79 California cities were reported to have dropped red light cameras, or prohibited them before any were installed.