Deputy Mayor has ‘grave reservations’ about city parking meters deal

Sherod Duncan

Amid growing questions about the selection of National Parking Systems (NPS)/Smart City Solutions for a city parking meters project, Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Sherod Duncan yesterday said he could not support the deal, citing, among other things, doubts about the background and capacity of the firms to undertake the venture.

Sharing his thoughts on the deal publicly for the first time in a post on his Facebook page, Duncan wrote that given the “total lack of verifiable information on the company and its capacity to execute the scope of the project and the absence of a contract on the proposed project, I cannot offer my support and reaffirm my grave reservation of such a venture.”

The Deputy Mayor said that the companies provided “so little information” from which “to make a