It wouldn't be used to hire more parking agents".
As for Mr. Lopez's claim that some parking agents go easier on a poor working stiff than on a big corporation, a police spokesman declined to comment.
Three of the parking agents were observed spending their entire shifts in their own vehicles, according to the release, and wrote tickets that they never gave drivers.
Ms. Quinn, in her annual State of the City address, will call for prohibiting parking agents from issuing tickets to drivers who momentarily step away from their vehicles to pay meters.
Mayor Bloomberg has cut the number of city-issued placards in recent years, but, Norvell said, the problem is systemic: because parking agents don't want to risk ticketing other civil servants, they don't enforce the rules.
"For 20 years, this city has been trying to solve the problem that when parking agents make a mistake, we bill the wrong people, and a lot of the fines never get collected," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday.
Staten Island Hotel Staten Island (718) 698-5000 Stanley M. Friedman was the Bronx Democratic leader when Mr. Giuliani, then United States attorney in Manhattan, successfully prosecuted him for paying bribes on behalf of companies seeking city contracts with the parking bureau, including a contract to produce hand-held computers for parking agents.
Winter Park agent Brenda Cole said she makes jewelry and soap as gifts for clients.
While administrators would never have a lifeguard at Jones Beach in February or a parking enforcement agent in a shopping mall at midnight, police officers are frequently assigned to isolated posts at inappropriate times.
He said that when he asked the parking enforcement agent in court why she had not entered the specific date of his registration expiration, she replied that the hand-held ticket device permitted her to put in only the month and year.
