Parking meter outsourcing considered in Hermosa Beach
Pat Saltzman issues a ticket on Hermosa Avenue to a vehicle that failed to move for the morning street sweeper. Photo by Ed Pilolla. Randy Fujisaki is one of Hermosa Beach’s parking enforcement officers who drives around town chalking tires and issuing warnings and tickets. He’s been spit on and hollered at. You have to treat people professionally and not take it personally, Fujisaki said. He knows some people don’t even realize they parked in the red, for example. Fujisaki is one of nine community service officers, otherwise known as the parking enforcement department. It’s this department that the City Council next week will consider disbanding in favor of paying a private company to step in as a replacement. If it happens and Fujisaki finds himself without a job, he’ll be okay. “I’ll get another job. People get new jobs all the time,” he said. But he hopes to stay just where he is. He thinks the department, which is not privatized, does a good job and does a lot more than just issue tickets. The day starts at 6 a.m. for the first shift. They check to see if any animals were dropped off in the kennel overnight. The parking enforcement division is also the city’s animal control…
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