The $391,412 price tag for parking equipment to serve Birmingham’s Municipal Court garnered several questions from city councilors during their meeting Tuesday.
The measure before the City Council was an amendment to an agreement with Navitas Credit Corp. for the financing of equipment needed to upgrade the city’s municipal court parking lot at 801 17th Street. The agreement was initially adopted by the council in March. Tuesday’s amendment corrected the amount, which was originally $345,665.
“This seems like an excessive amount of money for a gate arm to go up for people to go into municipal court,” Councilor Valerie Abbott said…