The job’s never over until the paperwork’s done, and here’s the paperwork. No time to analyze it, but it’s the the text of the ordinance passed this week by the Council to transfer the everything to do with the parking over to the new “commission” and placing that commission under the Convention and Entertainment Facilities Department.

Background to that: CEFD is an “Enterprise Fund.” Translation: “revenue generating” as opposed to normal governmental budget funds, which are not. The largest enterprise funds are the utilties and airport; the convention center has been a distant third. (There is a fourth, but I can’t recall it offhand.)

In short, the city is tacitly acknowledging that this is considered revenue enhancement, not law enforcement.

Warning: this file is over 1.1 megs in size. It is in .pdf format, and you can get the reader here, if you need it.

Edit: forgot to link back; this is in answer to Anne’s question over on BlogHouston.