City of Kyle refunds more than 2 years of overcharged parking fines

More than two years after the Kyle City Council passed an ordinance designed in part to lower parking fines, residents began getting refunds for overcharges.

Council member Rick Koch, who is also now mayor pro tem, began trying to get the fines lowered while he was still a private citizen. He finished the job at the council’s Dec. 17 meeting. Council okayed by a unanimous vote both an amended parking ordinance and the refunding of about $12,000 to people who had overpaid.

The basis of the overpayment, Koch said, was that police were writing parking tickets based on state statute and not the city ordinance, even after the latter was passed in August 2017.