Dates/Locations & Seminars

The Seminars

THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATIONS WILL BE SEEN IN ALL LOCATIONS

PARKING AS A RESOURCE
CORY MARCHASIN
Cory Marchasin brings a decade of experience working with municipalities and helping them design systems to make their on street parking operations run better. "Its not just a case of hammering scofflaws until they pay their parking citations. It's creating a shift in thinking not only on the part of the parker, but of those who enforce the rules as well." This talk will bring a new concept to the table. Consider that parking is a resource, like a city park. Then perhaps enforcement officers could take the guise of "park rangers." Yes, they do issue citations, but they also preserve the resource for all to use.

PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
RICK WEST
Rick West is the consummate parking entrepreneur. He has owned and successfully operated parking businesses. He also has worked closely with investment firms that have purchased or leased parking infrastructure from public entities nationwide. This "Public Private Partnership" is becoming extremely popular as assets age and money isn't available to maintain them. In this presentation, representatives from investment firms, consulting firms, and a city that has successfully completed these transactions will tell their story. It's a good place to learn, and a good place to start.

GARAGE DESIGN
ROAMY R. VALERA, CAPP
Roamy Valera has depth in our industry. He has managed parking operations, worked as head of a City Parking operation, taught and trained with the International Parking Institute, and now makes his living consulting on parking operations. He knows that public institutions have unique requirements when looking at parking facilities. First, is the new garage necessary? Even so, is the investment worth it? How does the design of a public sector garage differ from one built for private enterprise? All these questions and more will be addressed in his presentation.

REVENUE AND YOUR OPERATIONS
DENNIS CUNNING & CLYDE WILSON
We joking call Dennis Cunning "parking's bad boy." He is one of the few in the industry that calls it as he sees it, no matter whose ox is being gored. Dennis brings forty years of experience as a garage manager, Vice President of a major parking firm, and as an auditor to bear on the problems of running a garage and collecting the money. In this presentation he is changing everything.

Clyde Wilson has over 27 years of experience as a creative, "hands-on" manager of public and private parking facilities and applies his practical, "real world" operational approach with all of his clients. He also developed the parking tax collection audit and monitoring program for a system of over 2400 parking locations in Miami and Los Angeles

In this tandem presentation they are telling you everything you want to know about revenue control. They will be focusing on the problems of cities and universities and their dealings with Parking Departments, On and Off Street revenue control, and private operators. Having saved millions of dollars in revenue for parking operations worldwide, they will use current real life experience to illustrate there points. If you see no other presentation on parking this year, see this one. The results will reflect directly on your bottom line.

FLORIDA ONLY PRESENTATION:

TECHNOLOGY
THOMAS WUNK
Tom Wunk brings decades of experience to a discussion of Technology. He began as a field technician, worked in marketing, left the industry but stayed on the technology side, and has for the past 10 years run the US marketing and maintenance operation for one of the largest manufacturers of parking revenue control equipment in the world. At this session, he will speak to how the changes in technology, particularly Internet technology (IP), affects how you design, purchase, and use your parking control systems.

BALTIMORE ONLY PRESENTATION:

PARKING AND PUBLIC POLICY
BARBARA J. CHANCE
Beside being one of the most educated members of the Parking Profession, Barbara Chance, PhD, is also one of the finest speakers. She brings experience from her background as head of a major parking authority, her work in higher education, and her extremely successful world wide consulting firm to parking issues. In this presentation she approaches parking and public policy. How does a city meld the pressures of parking availability with the requirements of income generation and the realities of political pressure? In the world of Shoupistas, is this heresy, or reality? Should cities throw out all the rules and follow a theory, or should they take a cold hard light of day realistic look at their needs and how it's possible to implement them? Join Barbara Chance in this most thought provoking discussion.

LONG BEACH ONLY PRESENTATION:

ON STREET TECHNOLOGY
PATRICK RYAN
To say he pioneered Pay by Space parking in the US is only a slight exaggeration. Patrick Ryan did lead the charge when he arrived from Australia 10 years ago. He developed tools that helped municipalities and universities gauge their revenue and understand what technology can do to affect how people park, and how they pay for it. In this session he brings that background to the discussion of technology, and its on street relevance. Should you monitor each space? What is the cost/benefit? What are some of the more unusual (and usual) ways you can control on street parking - traditional meters, cell phone, P and D, P by S, in car meters or a combination of all.

AUSTIN ONLY PRESENTATION:

REVENUE CONTROL (Continued)
CLYDE WILSON & DENNIS CUNNING
Dennis and Clyde will continue their session focusing on the revenue control issues of both the public and private sectors. They will look specifically at problems of local operations and address them in the session. Bring your hardest problem when it comes to revenue control and they will help you solve it.