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Tampa considers food donations to pay off parking tickets

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Looking for a way out of a parking ticket? Donate some canned goods to a food bank. That’s a proposal being considered by the Tampa City Council. The program would run for about a month over the winter holidays. Councilman Guido Maniscalco tells The Tampa Tribune the idea is to let people pay off some of their parking fines by donating food to the needy. Tallahassee launched a similar program in November that lets first-time parking offenders get $1 of credit…

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