The details of these changes were made widely available to residents through many different channels. To see a complete history of our communication with the public about downtown parking, please visit our interactive Parking Communications Calendar Tool.
Our City Council meeting agenda packets are posted publicly on our website before each meeting. These agenda packets included the proposed orders relating to parking that the City Council first considered at their September 4, 2018 meeting and voted to approve on September 18, 2018. We included the link to these orders in our weekly newsletter, the Biddeford Beat, to bring them to the attention of residents while the City Council was still in the process of deliberating the orders. You may subscribe to the Biddeford Beat by clicking here. Biddeford's Council meetings are always open to the public, and they may be watched live on our website or on the public access channel.
Once the City Council approved the order, we updated the Downtown and Mill District Parking page of our website to reflect the upcoming changes and linked to it in the Citywide Updates tab on the home page of our website. We also sent out a "Front Page News" alert to our email subscribers and posted that alert at the top of the home page of our website to make the information as easily accessible to residents as possible. We also posted the link to this comprehensive webpage on our Facebook and Twitter accounts several times.
In addition, we created a Frequently Asked Questions document that we shared in the Biddeford Beat to our email subscribers. We also distributed a press release to all of the local news outlets, and media reports regarding these changes appeared in the Journal Tribune, on News Center Maine, and on WMTW. Finallly, we created a slideshow for the Public Access Channel to describe the changes to reach the segment of the population that may not have access to our digital updates.