After Red Bank’s traffic cameras generated 30 percent fewer fines for drivers than last year, Mayor Joe Glasscock said he wouldn’t mind seeing them gone soon.
“Thank goodness it’s down,” he said Tuesday night. “It tickles me to death we’re not getting more revenue from it.”
The numbers were revealed after an “appropriation overages” resolution quickly passed. Red Bank financial director John Alexander and all five commissioners didn’t say a word about the adjustments during the meeting.
Red Bank camera fines are down $136,000 since 2009, including $93,000 in revenue added Tuesday to the city’s $350,000 budgeted prediction.
Commissioners voted 4-1 in January to extend Red Bank’s contract with American Traffic Solutions for 12 years. Some state legislators viewed the extension as a defiant move against early Tennessee House efforts to limit photo enforcement penalties statewide.