Page 10 University Daily Kansan, April 28, 1983
Revenue from tickets keeps Parking Services solvent
By GENE HUNTER
Staff Reporter
Two days before spring break, Terry Manning, Leavenworth special student, walked to his car parked in the Ellsworth Hall parking lot to run some errands around town. As he neared the car he saw a blue Parking Services scooter stopped behind his car, and a lone lock attached to its iet rear wheel.
"She told me they were making arrangements to have my car towed to the hospital."
Manning was told he would be to go to Hoch Auditorium and pay his tickets.
"They told me I would have to come up with at least $80 in cash to get the wheel lock off," he said. "The problem was that I had not gotten the permit transferred from my old car to my new car. But the license plate was the
MANNING HAD RECEIVED HIS
not ticket for the offense about three
hours ago.
"I felt that I should have gotten it taken care of before then, but I also felt I was treated unjustly. It doesn't take me to break the license plate number," he said.
"Even after they found in their own files that I had purchased a parking permit at the first of the year they wouldn't refund the money and they
told me there was no way to appeal it."
Terry Manning is what Parking Services calls an "excessive violator." After five unpaid tickets a violator becomes a candidate for a wheel lock.
Though Manning is an extreme example, it's no secret that many KU players like him.
IN FISCAL YEAR 1982, Parking Services issued 72,300 parking tickets. According to Don Kearns, director of Parking Services, many of those were cancelled because they were issued to bona fide visitors.
Nobody knows exactly how many were canceled because no statistics are kept on it, but Parking Services did take in $399,586 in parking fines for fiscal year 1962. That was 46 percent of its budget revenues for that year.
Parking Services is completely self-
supporting. Of the remainder of the
revenues, 38 percent came from
parking permits, 10 percent from meter
fines and 6 percent from parking
charges at athletic and special events.
Kearna, however, denied that Parking Services had an incentive to issue a permit.
"It has always been our goal that everyone would park legally and we wouldn't have to issue a ticket, period," he said.
He admitted, however, that Parking Services was dependent on the revenue generated by parking fines.
"We project how much revenue is going to come in on that side," he said.
BOB BROWN, CHAIRMAN OF THE Parking and Traffic Board for the 1982-83 academic year, also said that fines were important to Parking Services.
"We planned the budget expecting so much income to come from tickets," he said.
Brown, an associate professor of mathematics, said that if parking fine revenues decreased because people obeyed the parking regulations better, the Traffic and Parking Boards would increase the cost of a parking permit.
"Those who don't obey the rules help support the rest of us," he said.
But Kearns said that if violations went down, the budget would also decrease.
"The bottom line is that if that would ever take place, and maintain a level of consistence beyond that, we could cut back our enforcement force and save money, and take that out of the budget." he said.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SALARIES make up about 33 percent of Parking Services budget expenditures.
Group I and II parking violations, it paid within 14 days, cost $7.50. These include parking in the wrong zone, without a permit or having a permit improperly applied or in bad condition. After 14 days, these fines go up to $12.50 to give violators an incentive to either pay them or appeal them.
Group III and IV violations cost $25 if paid within 14 days and $30 after that. These include blocking a drive and parking in a fire lane or a handicap
Brown said he did not know why the fines were fixed at those prices, because the topic was not discussed at board meetings.
David Welch, a student member of the Parking and Traffic Board in the 1980-81 academic year, said that he was "washed" by the back burrow. "It really put on the back burrow."
BUT ANN SCHIREPEL. A current member of the board, said, "The feeling was that the amount of times could be lowered and still cover the costs."
The cost of parking fines was increased in 1978 from $5 to $7.50 for Group I and II violations and from $15 to $25 for Group III and IV violations.
David Darwin, professor of civil engineering and budget subcommittee chairman in 1978, said the fines were as an added deterrent to violators.
"There were shortages of parking spaces to where we were telling members of the staff and faculty who had been here many years that they could not park next to their building." he said.
"At the same time, we had people who were not paying for that permit, who were misusing the parking lots by just going up there and parking. I have
no sympathy for someone who won't walk a half mile."
MOST OFFICIALS THINK THERE is enough parking space to accommodate everyone at KU, but they admit that it is often not very conveniently located. At this point, no plans are being made to improve that situation.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said there had never been any formal discussion of building more parking space near the center of campus because it would not be practical, "primarily for aesthetic reasons and the movement of pedestrians through campus."
The money for such parking would have to come from the capital improvements part of the Parking Services budget. In fiscal year 1864, the capital improvements budget decreased from $100,000 to $90,000; it was decreasing "primarily because we don't anticipate a great deal of new lot construction."
"There are some areas that are going to be expanded a little as funds become available," he said.
HOWEVER, FUNDS ARE ALREADY available. The balance carried forward to 1983 is $429,201 — $229,000 more than the balance of $200,000 that Kearns said was necessary.
However, Brown also said that money was not the real problem.
"There is very little space to put any
more parking without destroying the landscaping completely," he said.
According to Wiechert, the current parking strategy for the University was developed in the 1980s. The plan was to have large "reservoir" parking lots surrounding the campus for the bulk of the students and faculty who need to be reserved for people who most needed to be close to their buildings.
WICHEM WOULD NOT FAVOR the idea of building a multi-level parking structure in the open spaces on either side of Malott Hall because it would take up space that could be occupied by an academic building.
Kearns said, "We could build a parking structure and make it very close for everyone to park, but I don't know a student or faculty member who wants to pay $400 to $500 per year to park there."
He said that was how much it had cost to guarantee the construction bond for the University of Kansas Medical Center's $2.5 million parking structure.
ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT favor a parking structure near central campus, Wiechcich said there had been some consideration of building a parking structure where the X-zone parking lot is now, north of Helen Spencer Museum
The sand such a lot could be built in the future to handle the increasing parking needs of Memorial Stadium and the art museum.
KU housing rate hikes continue decline
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
It may not seem as if the cost of living in University housing is getting less expensive.
And, in fact, the dollar cost of living in University housing is more than in the past.
but with few exceptions, both the percentage increases and the yearly dollar increases have been getting smaller over the past several years. The increase from the K-12 housing office and the office of residential programs.
DURING THE 1981-82 school year,
for example, the basic rate for a
student living in a residence hall was $1,647. The following year, the rate was $1,817, an increase of about 10 percent, or $170.
However, between the 1982-83 school year and the 1983-84 school year, the increase was only about 4 percent, or $75.
During the 1980-81 school year, the average scholarship hall rate was $874.
Next year, the rate is only 9 percent higher, or an increase of $89, and the All Scholarship Hall Council's contract proposal for the 1994-95 school year, which was also preliminarily approved.
calls for about a 4 percent increase, or $37.
RESIDENTS OF STOUFFER Place have also seen a downward trend in the dollar and percentage increases from one year to the next in recent years.
Next year, Stouffer residents will pay only $3.50 more than this year. And, if the 1984-85 contract is approved, the 1986-87 contract will pay $1 less than the 1983-84 school year.
That contract proposal has yet to be voted on by the board.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said Tuesday that the consistent decline in the dollar and percentage increase in property taxes is a result of a concern for the student.
cost of education within what the students can pay." Wilson said. "We are all trying to read things the same way."
WILSON SAID THE MOST important factor in determining the proposals was the help and the cooperation of contract committee members of the different
"If they want to cut down on their rates, that's fine," he said. "As long as the rates are low."
"We have to be careful to keep the
Auction house losing battle
By United Press International
LONDON — Two American millionaires were on the verge of taking over the fine-art auction house of Sotheby's unless the government Monopolies Commission or a "white knight" came to the rescue, a newspaper reported yesterday.
*Millionaires Marshall Cogan and Stephan Swid yesterday resumed heavy buying of Sotheby's shares on stock market, offering $8 a share.
The Daily Telegraph, the Standard and other newspapers reported that the two were believed to have acquired up to 29.9 percent of the shares. Under takeover rules, a suitor cannot purchase more than 30 percent of a company's stock in its initial offer.
SOTHERY'S MANAGEMENT HAD asked shareholders not to sell, but offers were so numerous at $8.15 Tuesday that the buyers were able
Brokers, however, said they believed the millionaires had not reached the 30 percent mark.
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Auditions For 1983 Kansas Repertory Theatre Summer Season
CAMPUS:
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For Open Call auditions:
Open Call Auditions for KRT Company Members:
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Callbacks:
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Open Call Auditions for Community Cast Members:
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Auditioners should have a two-minute prepared piece and a prepared play.
An accountant will be provided
KRT Company members can eight (8) hours of academic credit; graduate students can receive five (5) hours of credit
1983 KRT season. Rehearsals June 1 July 7; Performances July 8-24
1) Working 1978 hit musical based on Studs Terkel book "town/pow" show
2) The Glass Ceiling by Tennessee Williams
3) The Kost inspector Hound by Tom Steppard, and
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Additional information about auditions. University
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