January 30, 2002
• John Oglesby announces plan to boost parking revenue by raising rates, adding meters and extending meter hours from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., in keeping with Denver's status as a "world-class" city.
February
• Mayor Wellington Webb puts Oglesby parking plan on hold.
• Oglesby is accused of fixing five of his own parking tickets, as well as those of other people.
• Oglesby threatens staff with disciplinary action for leaking information about the parking management division to the mayor's office.
• Reports surface that Oglesby is working on the side for a former employer, a California-based parking-payment-machine manufacturer bidding for a city contract.
• Denver Department of Public Works director Stephanie Foote calls for outside, independent audit of entire parking management division.
March
• Oglesby is accused of introducing parking-ticket quota system for his employees.
• Foote strips parking division of its ability to settle ticket disputes internally and places that power solely with Denver County Court.
April
• Foote's new policy creates problems for visitors to the Children's Museum, when the city mistakenly issues tickets to people parking in a private lot; because division can no longer void tickets, those who received tickets must take their protests to court ("A Fine Mess," June 13, 2002).
May
• City finally hires KPMG to audit parking management division.
June
• City scraps Oglesby's plan to enforce meters from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. but does increase downtown meter rates from $1 an hour to $1.50 an hour.
• Parking management division restructured; Oglesby and the rest of his division now report to operations division deputy manager Robert Castaneda.
• Oglesby placed on paid investigative leave for thirty days.
• City auditor's office launches its own investigation into parking management division.
July
• Denver District Attorney's Office charges former Denver Public Works employee Deborah Hewitt with embezzling $13,000 from parking cashier's office between July 2001 and March 2002.
• Oglesby's thirty-day leave was up on July 22, but because the investigations are incomplete, it isn't known when his paid leave will end -- or how.
