Tracey: Spend $50K To Ease East Haven Beach Parking Congestion

EAST HAVEN, CT - East Haven Republican Mayoral Candidate and Town Council Member Big Steve Tracey proposed today a resolution for immediate additional $50,000 to help alleviate parking congestion at the East Haven Town Beach.

This latest proposal for Tracey, which doesn't include information on where the funding would come from, comes days after another plan he announced which would include, among other things creating a parking fee of $20 per car for all out of town visitors to park at the town beach lots from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

“These additional steps are efforts we can take this summer to improve security and maintenance at the beach,” Tracey said. “At the next meeting of the Town Council, I will submit a resolution to have the town appropriate an additional $50,000 to the Parks account.

“This funding will be used to immediately provide additional resources to increase supervisory staff and additional maintenance; especially during the summer holiday period. I will also ask our police department to increase police presence in the Cosey Beach neighborhoods for the summer months and aggressively ticket parking violators.

“Moreover, I am also in full support and applaud Town Council Member Joe Deko’s initiative on alleviating the problem of parking congestion in the Cosey Beach neighborhoods. This issue has plagued the local residents for many years. And I ask all the town council members to endorse my plan for monetizing the parking revenue, providing additional resources and - security and strengthening neighbor parking standards.”

Deko has scheduled a press conference for Saturday morning to unveil his plan to deal with the parking congestion issue.