530pm Lex Park Food Fines 11192020

Have a parking ticket you really need to pay?

Here's another option instead of cash, Lexpark is accepting cans during its "Food for Fines" program.

Have a parking ticket you really need to pay?

Here's another option.

Instead of cash...lexpark is accepting cans during its "food for fines" program.

It kicks off monday and runs through friday, december 18th.

It's the city's seventh year putting on the canned food drive in partnership with god's pantry food bank.

You can bring in 10 cans of food to receive fifteen dollars off any lexpark or police issued parking citation.

Bring in as many cans as you want to the lexpark office downtown..

To keep getting credit.

It even works for citations that are past due.

L3: abc 36 news white gary means executive director, lexington parking authority gary means, executive director: "i have referred to this as a perfect storm in the past and probably even makes more sense this year since 2020 has been such a challenge for people but when i say perfect storm nobody likes to pay for a parking ticket but almost everybody likes to help those in need so this just kind of creates that opportunity."

What's most needed?... canned meat, beans, vegetables and peanut butter.

In it's previous six years... lexpark has collected almost 50,000 food items..

Which it says is nearly