The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE - Louisville officials plan to hire an Atlanta company to collect unpaid parking fines - something that could bring millions of dollars into city coffers.
The metro government is owed more than $5 million from nearly 200,000 unpaid parking citations, almost one-third of which are more than three years old.
The collection effort is part of a move by metro government to consolidate under the parking authority all parking-related functions that were previously scattered among several agencies.
Officials expect Lanier Parking Systems to increase the annual collection rate to 30 percent, said Cathy Duncan, executive administrator of the Parking Authority of River City.
Subject to the Louisville Metro Council's approval, Lanier will keep 2.5 percent of the fines it collects and 4.5 percent of delinquent fines.
Work would begin Oct. 1.
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