Sometimes you have to spend money to make money and that is what Belleville council will do when it comes to the administration of speeding tickets issued through an automated speed enforcement system.
Once the technology is read, four radar-equipped cameras will be rotated through the city’s 10 Community Safety Zones.
Monday council signed off on a two-year contract with the City of Toronto’s Centralized Municipal Processing Centre which will handle the technical and administrative sides of actually issuing tickets to the owners of vehicles caught speeding in the safety zones.
The cost of processing a speeding ticket from start to end is estimated at around $20 per ticket.
Council agreed to pay Toronto an estimated $854,000 plus HST over two years to provide the service.
The estimate is based on the premise that each camera will issue 12 tickets per day, plus a start-up fee.
If that premise holds true almost 17,500 speeding tickets would be issued per year in Belleville’s Community Safety Zones.
The City of Toronto is the only provider of this kind of service and also processes tickets for Ottawa, Durham Region, Brampton, York Region and Niagara Region.
