Downtown Parking Management and Hay Street Parking Deck
At a glance
What: selecting a company to manage the city's parking program, plus design-build work on a Hay Street parking deck.
Where it stands: On 2026-10-05 the Council reached consensus in the work session to select Pivot Parking and bring the item forward. The 2026-10-26 agenda lists Hay Street parking deck design-build; the outcome was not read.
Next: A formal contract vote, and the outcome of the Hay Street deck item, were not found in the sources read.
Details
On 2026-09-08 Pivot Parking was the staff recommendation, and the Council reached consensus to send the item back to staff to address Council concerns.
On 2026-10-05 the work session reached consensus to select Pivot Parking and bring it forward; the same session accepted a downtown MSD report.
Staff recommended the P2 (Pivot Parking) proposal and cited a roughly $280,000 gap for the fiscal year; council asked about cashless payment, kiosk reliability, cost escalation and downtown involvement (the Downtown Alliance had not voted). The item moved to a work session, targeted for September 28.
Pivot Parking contract pulled from consent; a motion to proceed passed 8-2 (Ferguson and McMillan opposed). Staff said the city pays about $62,000 a month to the current vendor month to month; the two-year contract can be ended on 30 days' notice.