Getting a parking ticket might cost you more next year if the City Council votes to adopt a recommendation by one of its committees. The city’s Budget and Finance Committee agreed Nov. 10 to recommend the City Council bump up the cost of tickets by $12.50 each beginning in 2011 to cover surcharges being passed along by the state. The added surcharge is actually $3, according to city officials, on top of a $9.50 state surcharge that the city currently absorbs and subsidizes to help fund state trial court buildings. Until now, the city had not passed on the $9.50 cost to motorists because, according to staff research, because there were no City Council resolutions allowing for the collection of the state surcharge from violators. That would all change if the council adopts the proposal to recoup the entire amount of $12.50. As part of the recommendation, however, the city will not ask violators to retroactively pay the $9.50 surcharge from previous years — essentially declaring the old ticket cases closed. Budget Committee member and District 3 Councilman Todd Gloria made a motion to recommend the $12.50 surcharge to the full City Council — a plan seconded by District 2 Councilman Kevin Faulconer and agreed to by Councilman Tony Young. Councilmembers Carl DeMaio and Marti Emerald were absent during the committee meeting. The previous state surcharges include $2.50 that was set aside for courthouse construction and another $2.50 surcharge for construction of criminal justice facilities in 1994. A $4.50 surcharge was designated for more state court construction in 2003, according to city records. The new $3 surcharge will sunset on July 1, 2013.