Windsor administration is recommending that parking enforcement remain outsourced.
A report before Windsor City Council on Monday, December 17th wants the city to award the contract to the current provider, Commissionaires Ottawa, at a cost of $682,000 for a five-year period beginning January 1, 2019 (to December 31, 2023).
The city contracted out the service in 2010 but CUPE Local 543 wants to bring it back in-house which would cost $1-million.
But Parking Compliance and Enforcement Supervisor Bill Kralovensky says financially, it makes more sense to maintain the status quo.
"We have done our estimates and some high level sourcing on the costs, what it would need to bring it back in-house, that type of thing etc.., and right now it is still more beneficial to the taxpayer to have it and continue with the outsourcing of it," he says.
The report indicates if council chooses not to award the parking tender now, a new tender process would have to take place which means the existing contract would expire, resulting in no enforcement of the parking bylaw.