Carmel residents express frustrations over new parking meter

tonight on the only live local prime time news on the central coast cw… are carmel’s new parking meters cashing in…or out.???. plus…the investigation continues for gilroy police in the city’s first homicide of the year…we’ll have neighbor reaction. and state health managers continue to monitor a “superbug” outbreak i california. you live local news channel five at 10… starts now is there parking progress in carmel? a heated debate between the city and its residents continues… thank you for joing us. i’m jon brent. tonight, over 60 people showed up to hear leaders give an update on the pilot program…thats put parking meters along ocean avenue. news channel 5’s monica jacquez was at the meeting and joins us live in carmel with the latest… monica? tonight was supposed to be a workshop to update people on the parking meters… but instead it turned into more of a town hall meeting. passionate business owners and residents angry insisting the meters are just a way for the city to make money. ***nats of meeting***”i don’t think it’s convenient for our clients at all.”***nats of crowd applause***the frustration continues for carmel residents and business owners … who packed the carmel plaza thursday night”we have annoyed this group of people. our local residents more than any other group by this experiment.”but cheif of police michael calhoun says this parking meter experiment has brought in over 20 thousand dollars to the city so far and the money will be out back into the community michael calhoun, chief of police 57:21 “we put the revenues back into the downtown to improve our sidewalks some of the facades along the business fronts and our streets to make it kind of a beautification of our downtown.”new data also shows more turn over in parking… calhoun says with the parking meters… a space is being used 3 plus times mostly by tourists. 56:52 “the most important thing is they’re saying they are finding