An agency responsible for parking tickets has a budget deficit. What will they do to balance the books for the year? The San Francisco Examiner says the SFMTA is about to go on a meter warpath.

[Chief Operating Officer John] Haley said the agency, which has a total budget of $775 million, will be putting together a recovery plan to see if it can still meet its projections for the year, which would require more tickets to be issued during the next several months than planned.

I find it funny that they just come out and say they are going to issue more tickets to meet their budget. This is always a possibility but I usually thought it was conspiracy and cynical at best.

The article also gives several possible theories about the cause of the problem such as staff shortages (which saves money, no?), construction work (for which they are reimbursed) and issuing fewer tickets while helping with special events (like Baseball games, also reimbursed).