Typically the vendor pays to install the parking meters and provides the maintenance for a share of the parking revenue. There is no money out of pocket for the city. So really what you are looking at is a continuous stream of kickbacks from the vendor to whoever arranged for them to get the contract.
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Typically the vendor pays to install the parking meters and provides the maintenance for a share of the parking revenue. There is no money out of pocket for the city. So really what you are looking at is a continuous stream of kickbacks from the vendor to whoever arranged for them to get the contract.