Recent increases to the City of Sacramento's long-term parking meter rates near the Department of Housing and Community Development's headquarters have angered some state workers already grappling with unpaid furloughs.
Some HCD staffers are fuming after the daily maximum rose to $6 a day from $5.
That's a 20 percent increase.
A handful of HCD staffers at the department's 1800 3rd St. headquarters began to toy with fighting city hall.
In stepped Pepper Lewis, a steward at HCD for the SEIU Local 1000.
Her advice: "Transfer to the D.M.V on Broadway where parking costs $20 per month, they take it out of your check, and it takes a few pay cycles before that even gets deducted."
Some HCD staffers are fuming after the daily maximum rose to $6 a day from $5.
That's a 20 percent increase.
A handful of HCD staffers at the department's 1800 3rd St. headquarters began to toy with fighting city hall.
In stepped Pepper Lewis, a steward at HCD for the SEIU Local 1000.
Her advice: "Transfer to the D.M.V on Broadway where parking costs $20 per month, they take it out of your check, and it takes a few pay cycles before that even gets deducted."
City of Sacramento parking meter manager Matt Eierman suggested in an email to the department that while some meter rate were increased, the rates on another 200 meters in in the city have been cut to $3 a day.
The new $3 meters are located on the 2000 (T Street), 2100 (U Street) & 2200 (V Street) blocks of 8th Street, which Eierman said are close enough to 3rd & S Streets.
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