The city of Morganton is cracking down on downtown parking violations with an electronic monitoring system.

The Morganton City Council approved a contract this week with T2 Parking Management Systems for an initial cost of $9,652 and an annual cost of $3,828.

Sharon Jablonski, the city’s cultural and creative development director, said the change in ticketing systems is in response to ongoing challenges with manual ticketing processes, including chalking of tires to monitor parking time, inefficiency of collections and a lack of repercussion for nonpayment of tickets and habitual offenders.

Jablonski said T2 Parking Management, which was developed by police officers, allows people to see their ticket and make a mobile payment at the time of ticketing by scanning a QR code. For those not

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