College Park rushing to spend speed camera dollars

The College Park City Council is rushing to meet a state deadline for allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars made issuing speeding tickets to drivers caught on camera. Council members said they are working to determine by June how to spend the estimated $600,000 the city will net from the newly implemented speed camera program, which mails $40 tickets to speeders.

“I wouldn’t say we’re in a scramble,” said Marcus Afzali, one of the city council’s members. “I wish we would’ve started a little earlier, but I don’t think we’re in any panic mode or something.”