HOBOKEN — Recently, the city found that 160 prepaid parking transponders — which were supposed to be used like EZPasses for city vehicles and police at city garages — were not being used by city vehicles. Thus, the city has disabled all of them.
Police also arrested a 22-year-old Municipal Garage employee for using one of the non-authorized transponders. Press release below — TJC (Press release below.)
INTERNAL AUDIT ASSISTS IN CATCHING ILLEGAL USE OF PARKING TRANSPONDERS
In October 2009, Mayor Zimmer directed Transportation and Parking Director Ian Sacs to conduct an audit of all active Municipal Parking Garage transponders.
After completing the audit in January 2010, Director Sacs identified about 160 active devices that were not associated with a city vehicle and had them disabled. The [arrest] announced today [is] a result of the mayor’s efforts to restore integrity in government and the cooperation between the city’s directors and the Hoboken police.