Category: News and Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Valerie Wolford, Communications Manager
City of Green
330-806-0311

October 7,2020

The City of Green and Diebold Nixdorf through an Arbor Day Foundation grant
to plant 62 trees at Boettler Park, 5300 Massillon Road, in Green on October 14 & 15

GREEN, OH – On October 14 and 15, the City of Green, a Tree City USA Community since 2018, will partner with Diebold Nixdorf, Telemark Diversified Graphics and the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 62 trees in Boettler Park, 5300 Massillon Road.  Some of the trees will be planted by local volunteers and City employees along the newly restored Boettler Park stream to help stabilize the stream banks. Additional trees will be planted to create arboretum-type pockets within the park for educational purposes.

“This is another great project brought to life from our Living Green Task Force. Through their initiative, we were able to team with local businesses in their efforts to give back to the community in an environmentally impactful way,” said Green Mayor Gerard Neugebauer.   

“Diebold Nixdorf, along with our supplier Telemark, actively seeks ways to replenish the environment to ensure a sustainable future for all of us. Being able to plant these trees in a local park that many of our Northeast Ohio-based associates enjoy is an added benefit,” said Jeff Reinmann, Global Environmental & Sustainability, Legal and Compliance, Diebold Nixdorf.

“We are proud to encourage and support local efforts to plant trees. Cities and towns around the globe that line their streets and fill their parks with trees are building healthier, happier communities,” said Dan Lambe, president, Arbor Day Foundation. 

Trees offer vast benefits for the community at large. Thriving urban forests bolster human health, from encouraging physical activity to reducing respiratory illnesses stemming from air pollution. In the United States, park trees alone remove about 75,000 tons ($500 million) of air pollution each year. And urban trees reduce runoff of sediment, pollutants, and organic matter into streams, improving our water quality. Trees have also been shown to reduce crime, lower stress levels, and develop community pride.

To learn more about this event, visit www.cityofgreen.org.

About The City of Green, Ohio: Incorporated as a city in 1992, Green is a prosperous, progressive and promising community with more than 25,000 residents.  Approximately 33.5 square-miles, Green is located in southern Summit County.    Visit www.cityofgreen.org.   

About the Arbor Day Foundation:  Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation has grown to become the largest nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees, with more than one million members, supporters, and valued partners. During the last 45 years, more than 350 million Arbor Day Foundation trees have been planted in neighborhoods, communities, cities and forests throughout the world. Our vision is to help others understand and use trees as a solution to many of the global issues we face today, including air quality, water quality, climate change, deforestation, poverty and hunger.

As one of the world’s largest operating conservation foundations, the Arbor Day Foundation educates and engages stakeholders and communities across the globe to involve themselves in its mission of planting, nurturing, and celebrating trees. More information is available at arborday.org

About Diebold Nixdorf:  Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is a world leader in enabling connected commerce. We automate, digitize and transform the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world’s top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers, our integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels conveniently, securely and efficiently for millions of consumers each day. The company has a presence in more than 100 countries with approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. Visit www.DieboldNixdorf.com for more information.

About Telemark: Telemark Diversified Graphics (TDG) is a 50-year leader in the printing and converting of direct thermal papers and films.  By partnering with Arbor Day, we can help share some of our core values.  TDG streamlines the pricing, production and distribution of our products, which allow customers to focus on their core business.  TDG is not only a US leader, but is now exporting to countries around the world. Visit www.telemarkcorp.com for more information.

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Valerie Wolford

Communications Manager

C: 330-806-0311

O: 330-896-6602

Motorists spend an average of 17 hours a year searching for spots on streets, in lots, or in garages. The hunt adds up to an estimated $345 per driver in wasted time, fuel, and emissions, according to the analysis by INRIX, a leading specialist in connected car services and transportation analytics.
Overpaying — caused by drivers’ inability to estimate how long they need to park or forking over extra at a garage to avoid the risk of getting a parking ticket — costs Americans more than $20 billion a year or $97 per driver, the report estimated.
Once you find your parking spot, there’s also the cost for parking. This is most expensive in the largest cities. In 2019, Parkopedia released its third annual update on the 50 most expensive cities for short-stay, daily and monthly paid parking.

Parking in New York City —if you find it—could cost $37 off-street for just two hours. The next highest, Chicago, costs about $21. The top 10 most expensive cities for monthly parking all cost over $200 per month, with New York costing a hefty $655. Boston rolls in at second place at $337, and Jersey City and San Francisco in third and fourth place, respectively, both costing around $300 a month.

On-street two-hour parking in New York, is only about $8, making parking off-street 344 percent more expensive than parking on-street. Parking on the street in Denver will save you 542 percent, which is the most compared to parking off-street. Only Miami Beach has cheaper average prices for paid 2-hour off-street parking.

 

 

The Connecticut Superior Court’s Online Adjudication System enables individuals who plead “not guilty” to a traffic infraction to participate in the court process electronically, rather than be required to physically appear in court.

Prior to the implementation of Electronic Citation (E-Citation) Processing, Connecticut’s traffic violation citation disposition system was completely manual, making it vulnerable to human error at many points throughout the process. In addition to creating opportunities for inaccurate and conflicting data, reliance upon a system based on paper and multiple points of data entry often results in processing delays, among other issues. The timeliness and uniformity of the Connecticut Superior Court’s Online Adjudication System eliminates the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in adjudication and conviction information posted to driver history files.

Through this system, Connecticut has successfully created collaboration between police services, courts and prosecuting authorities, ensuring accurate information and access to justice leading to meaningful adjudications. Currently available throughout the state, the system has reduced costs, improved the quality and timeliness of hearings and improved the convenience and efficiency of the process for both the court and the individual who receives the infraction. The online system now makes it possible for Connecticut residents to pay fines online or plead “not guilty” online.

What happens when Connecticut citizens plead not guilty to an e-ticket?Here is an explanation of what happens from the Connecticut Court Traffic Violation web site:

• When the Not Guilty plea is received, the Centralized Infractions Bureau will transfer your case to a Superior Court location for the geographical area where your ticket was issued.
• You may have to go to court.
• If your ticket was issued in certain locations of the state where there are Regional Motor Vehicle courts, you may be able to provide a written response to a prosecutor who may or may not nolle your case. If your case is nolled, the charges are dropped. If it is not nolled you will have to appear at the court.
• The local court will send you a notice giving you a court hearing date.
• The prosecutor may transfer your case to court, where it will be scheduled for a trial before a judicial authority.
• The prosecutor may make an offer to you which could include reduced fines or fees and/or an option to accept different charges.If you accept the offer, a plea of nolo contendere (no contest) will enter and you will pay the agreed upon fines/fees. You will not need to come to court.

The use of e-ticket systems may make it easier for courts in more states to adopt online processing of traffic fines and to handle “not guilty” pleas.

OMAHA, Neb. (from a story by KMTV) — Police cruisers across Nebraska are now required to use electronic ticketing, effective at the start of 2020.

The technology, called TraCS, has been around for the last decade and has been implemented by area police departments over the last two and a half years. Police forces across the state finished implementing the techology over the last six months.

“It’s easier to track data, get data and use data if we need to, it’s easier to compile stats for click it or ticket,” said Officer Shaun Manning of the Bellevue Police Department.

Lieutenant Mike Grummert of the Nebraska State Patrol said, “After it is issued to the motorist it comes back and is sent to whatever county you’re in to the attorney’s office or prosecutor’s office and it’s all done on the computer so it keeps it organized.”

“What happens is it eliminates a lot of the time we can spend on the traffic stop,” Grummer said. “Beforehand when we were handwriting it could take several minutes, now it’s you scan a driver’s license and registration and you enter the violation and you can issue citations and warnings so much faster.”

While the new technology may take time for some of the officers to get used to, Grummert, who has been using the electronic ticketing technology for eight years, said officers will see its benefits.