Federal employees in the District of Columbia and New York City incurred thousands of dollars in tickets assessed on illegally parked federal vehicles, but even though federal law calls on employees to pay tickets received on government vehicles, there are no consequences for ignoring parking tickets and many go unpaid, according to a report issued by a House transportation panel.
It said that as a result, in 2007, 477 parking tickets valued at $63,150 issued to federal vehicles in DC were never paid, and that federal employees in NYC also neglected to pay at least 670 parking tickets valued at $112,456 accumulated through December 9, 2007.
According to the report, the largest federal offenders in NYC were the FBI and the State Department.
Serious concerns are raised by GSA’s inability to identify its own employees responsible for 34 unpaid tickets valued at $4,150, the report said.
It said GSA has been tasked by Congress as the federal property manager, and should be setting an example for property management throughout the federal government.
However, GSA was unable identify which employees were using the vehicles on the days they were ticketed. GSA admitted that "proper vehicle check-out procedures were not followed," and vehicle use logs were "not kept or incomplete," the report said.
