GROSS REVENUESJuly 1 to September 30, 2009 – $173,700July 1 to September 30, 2010 – $114,811Percent difference – 34 percent decrease
If you talked to Red Bank Mayor Monty Millard three weeks ago, he would have called Tuesday a big day for “changing the city’s image” as it relates to snapshots of speeding cars.
On Nov. 16, two minutes into an inaugural speech filled with platitudes, Millard turned some heads: “Tonight I am asking [City Manager] Chris Dorsey to determine our options for the immediate removal of the red-light cameras and the speed van. He is to have this information available at our next agenda session on Dec. 7.”
But Tuesday was an empty-handed day for Dorsey, who faced Millard and other commissioners without any information about breaking a 12-year contract extension with American Traffic Solutions, the Arizona-based camera provider that collects about 60 percent of Red Bank’s ticket revenue.
“It’s not me stonewalling the mayor,” Dorsey said Tuesday.