16,783.

That is the number of tickets for which Sensys Gatso had received payments by the cutoff date of September 25, 2024, according to Dodie Wolfgram, Webster City’s finance director.

Gatso is the firm that worked with Webster City to install and operate the four automated traffic cameras whose use was officially suspended on Monday by the Iowa Department of Transportation.

212.

That is the number of pages the City of Webster City submitted to the DOT in its bid to explain the purpose of those traffic cameras, Webster City Police Chief Shiloh Mork said. It took weeks of compiling data and writing applications to produce that application, he said.

May 17, 2024.

That is the actual date the cameras were shut off by Gatso. Gatso did that in the anticipation of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of the new legislation that forced communities with existing cameras to reapply for approval. The legislation became law on July 1, 2024.

$1,811,731.01.

That is the gross amount that has been collected through the use of the cameras on U.S. 20 and Iowa Highway 17, according to Wolfgram.

Of that, Gatso has been paid $590,285.

$1,221,446.01?

That’s the net revenue, Wolfgram said, adding that amount is for paid tickets only.

Though the cameras were shut off on May 17, they were still operating, Mork said.

“The cameras continued to collect data but no citations were sent out,” the police chief said Thursday.

“The city had the option to turn them back on to issue citations, however we chose to wait for the permit process to complete. Had we been approved, citations would have started to be issued for violations occurring on and after October 1, 2024.

“Last time I checked, we had 26,120 videos of violations since May 17, 2024. There is no way we could ever catch up had we elected to go back to May 17 and start issuing citations.”

What is next?

City Manager John Harrenstein said on Thursday that the city staff and the City Council are reviewing the DOT’s decision and still determining next steps.

“Webster City is not the only community affected by the decision of the department (DOT) so we will also be reaching out to other communities to determine what their ideas are for moving forward.”

$836,463.

That’s the price of the fire truck the city is planning to purchase with some of the automated traffic camera income.

A final number: 26. That’s the number of days entities whose traffic cameras the DOT denied permits have to file an appeal.