Hi, Jen, I've answered your questions for the Ithaca campus of Cornell, below. Here, parking is a subject that would not be a university policy, because we have so many different parking regulation for our campuses, parks, public space, etc. So it wouldn't come through us. But parking is a huge issue at our Ithaca campus, so there are rules, which I've detailed below.
Best regards, Josh Joshua Adams Director, Cornell University Policy Office and DFA Communications 35 Thornwood Dr, Suite 200 Ithaca, NY 14850 t: 607.255.8279 f: 607.254.1555 w: www.policy.cornell.edu<http://www.policy.cornell.edu/> ΓΌ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Cornell has a "permit parking" system. All permits allow parking at certain locations. Although the right to purchase each type of permit is limited by the type of individual, any particular permit costs the same for whomever buys it. There are a limited number of free permits issued for a perimeter lot, and indivioduals who are granted those take a bus to their work location from the lot. The bus is free for employees. The cost of our paid permits ranges from about $360 per year to about $800 per year. There has been some additional discussion surrounding the loss of parking privileges based on citations. I'm looking for verbiage specifically addressing: 1. What triggers a loss of parking privileges (is it the number of citations, is it the total bill outstanding, etc.), It could be either. Each case is reviewed individually. 2. Who decides when parking privileges are lost (is it Parking Services or another level of administration: Dean of Students, Provost, etc.), Transportation Services decides. 3. The logic supporting citation-based suspension of parking privileges, and We have no language around this. 4. Repeat violators. (If they continue to pay parking tickets in a timely manner, should we care?) Again, reviewed on a case-by-case basis. No strict rule, but generally if they pay we don't suspend privileges. Additionally, are these issues handled differently among students, faculty and staff? If so, how? They are handled exactly the same. This is not to say we don't occasionally get a furious parent calling everyone including the president to claim that his daughter should not have to pay a ticket because he is shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for her to come here, or a faculty member who similarly claims that he shouldn't have to pay a parking ticket because of all the research money he brings in, but ostensibly they are handled consistently across the organization. Visitor Parking Does your institution have any "free" parking for visitors? If the answer is yes, it may be free to the visitor, but who really pays for it? How are free spaces patrolled to ensure faculty, staff and students are not using/abusing spaces designed as visitor parking? Moreover, how do you make parking on campus visitor-friendly? We encourage visitors to use the metered lots. Departments hosting visitors are able to purchase visitor permits to give to their visitors, so they can park for free. They're $4.50 for two hour permits, $8.00 for four-hour permits, and I'm not sure how much for all-day permits. After Hours Parking Finally, does your institution allow after hours parking on campus without a permit? "After hours" could be loosely defined as any time between 4:30 p.m. and 3 a.m., weekends and holidays. However, UND has several night classes which would require students to park on campus between 4:30 and 10 p.m. These individuals would not technically qualify for after-hours parking sans permit. How are these situations addressed for your institution? Some lots yes, some lots no. It depends entirely on the lot. Most lots except those on the very central of campus are enforced from 9-5. I look forward to your responses. All the best, JEN Jennifer Rogers Special Projects Assistant to the VPFO University of North Dakota Twamley Hall, Room 314 264 Centennial Drive Stop 8378 Grand Forks, ND 58202-8378 O 701.777.3511 | D 701.777.4392 F 701.777.4082 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | UND.edu/finance-operations ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE list of members. If you do NOT want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to the following website and complete the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours, during normal business hours. http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html If you have questions about the ACUPA e-list, please contact Jamie Parris at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?subject=ACUPA%20e-list%20assistance> or 607-255-6837.
