Parking Enforcement Workers

<ul><li>Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.</li><li>Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.</li><li>Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.</li><li>Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.</li><li>Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.</li><li>Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations.</li><li>Maintain close communications with dispatching personnel, using two-way radios or cell phones.</li><li>Perform simple vehicle maintenance procedures, such as checking oil and gas, and report mechanical problems to supervisors.</li><li>Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.</li><li>Observe and report hazardous conditions, such as missing traffic signals or signs, and street markings that need to be repainted.</li><li>Train new or temporary staff.</li><li>Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles.</li><li>Investigate and answer complaints regarding contested parking citations, determining their validity and routing them appropriately.</li><li>Provide information to the public regarding parking regulations and facilities, and the location of streets, buildings and points of interest.</li><li>Prepare and maintain required records, including logs of parking enforcement activities, and records of contested citations.</li><li>Perform traffic control duties such as setting up barricades and temporary signs, placing bags on parking meters to limit their use, or directing traffic.</li></ul>