02/20/07

PARKING PROTECTION FOLLOW-UP REPORT

                                                            ---- Ramona Liera-Schwichtenberg

I called Police Chief Dotson on Thursday, February 15^th to follow-up on the three proactive steps to faculty parking protection: No ticketing moratorium; student mass distribution list via email; fliers in permit bill mailing.

I noted that I had seen the campus police ticketing the first two weeks of the semester and he acknowledged that there was no longer a moratorium on ticketing. He went on to say that appeals were up, which meant that they were doing their job, and that in the Spring especially, students should know what is and is not faculty parking.

He said that wealthy students getting their parents to pay for high ticket costs was not commonplace, and that usually it is just repeat offenders who think they can get away with it.  He did say that if a high number of tickets were accumulated, offenders would be given the boot.

He also said that in the past, the police had been able to prevent students from registering for classes until tickets were paid but that with the advent of Banner, that has become more difficult to discern (although the problem is supposed to be corrected).

Police Chief Dotson said he would email Ravi Pense to access the student distribution list so that information about ticketing in faculty lots could be sent out electronically; in addition, he volunteered to contact the controller’s office and make sure that fliers warning students about parking in faculty lots would be sent out with parking permit bills.  Since he knows all those involved in accomplishing this, I thanked him and decided to let him do the work of emailing and executing these tasks.

Hopefully, this will bring about results.