University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 22, 1979
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Delinquent faculty parking fines cause increase in permit prices
By DAVID BURNS
Staff Reporter
University faculty and staff have failed to pay $4,000 in delinquent fines over the past three years, and as a result, students and staff will pay at least $1 more for parking permit.
"The increases in parking permits might not have occurred if faculty and staff would have paid their parking fines," Don Kearns, parking director, said.
Parking permit fees have increased $1 to $5 since last year, with the exception of the universal and service permits, which in turn may be purchased at $3 instead of receiving free permits.
Kearns is seeking a new method of collecting fines left unpaid by faculty and staff.
"I'd like to see a bill in the Legislature where a faculty or staff member's pay could be withdrawn until the parking fines are paid or some agreement is made." he said.
Currently, Kearns sends a list of faculty and staff members who have several updipes to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. Kearns requests payment to the faculty or staff member.
THAT METHOD has been unsuccessful. Kearns said, because few of the chronic offenders have responded to the letters.
This year, however, students, staff and officers on the bus will be unpaid parking tickets will find the wheels on their car locked with a special device, or their car might be towed the next time it is raining.
"Just recently I had someone come in who owed more than $200 in fines pay up because he heard we were towing cars," Kearns said.
The $4,000 in fines reflects three years of unpaid faculty and staff tickets. They must be paid, he said, because the Kansas Board of Regents writes to refuse off the fines.
PARKING VOLATION fees have not increased since last year. A parking ticket, if paid within 14 days, is $5 after 14 days, if paid outside of that time, is $7. The meter fine is $2 if paid within 48 hours. The fine increases to after two days. Parking fines are $3 after 48 hours, which also increases $5 after 14 days.
Vicki Thomas, University general counsel, has been working on the fines problem for several months, but she said he would take any legal action against the offenders.
"I know of the situation in parking and of the concern with getting some legal authority to collect these unpaid fines," she said. "I think we have to keep looking and see what happens."
At Kansas State University, faculty or staff members with overdue fines have their checks sent to the parking director who checks the check only after the fine has been paid.
KEARNS SAID he did not want to be the one to withhold the checks from faculty and staff.
"I don't like their system," he said, "I don't want to become a payroll clerk in order to collect these fines."
According to Thomas, the system of collecting fines at K-State may not be legal if used at KU. She said it would take a legislative act before employees pay could
be withheld because of overdue parking fines.
"Other than garnishment procedures, I wouldn't know right now what we could do to collect these unpaid fines, withwitholding as would be one of the possibilities," she said.
Shankel was not available for comment. However, his secretary, Jeannette Johnson, confirmed the parking fine problem.
"We're concerned because the students still pay for faculty and staff abuses," she said. "A lot do park legally, but many don't."
He added that while students could be forced to pay fines by withholding their transcripts or preventing them from attending classes, he said where faculty and staff were concerned.
PARKING PERMITFEES
1979-80 Increase
Universal $60 $20
Blue 40 3
Red 40 3
Brown 38 1
Yellow 38 1
Green 38 0
Residence Hall 20 2
Dassy Field 10 2
Sprague Apts 20 2
Messenger 40 5
Handicapped 33 33
Service 40 20
Motorcycle
a Red 22 2
b Blue 22 2
c Residence Hall 22 2
- Permits include a campus pass
Few opt for non-fluoridated water
Only a fraction of Lawrence's population, between 30 and 60 people, was in the new non-fluoridated water system since its installation late last April, Gene Vogt, directly utilities, said.
In April, however, the city commission changed that when it voted to install a new system in the city's water plant that provided non-fluoridated water.
The commission ordered the water system to be supplied with a newly water system after some nationally known chemists and concerned Lawrence residents protected floridation of the city's rivers.
Customers of the Lawrence Water
Department have the option of using non-
floridated water drawn from a single
faucet inside the water plant at Third and
Indiana streets.
Floride was added to the city's water to help people maintain proper dental health, Vogt said.
The water department requests that users of the tap sign their names, addresses and number of gallons of water they take to the nearest residence residence use the service, Vogt said.
Although a few people consistently return each week to the water, Vogel said he had received no comments from them concerning the quality of the water.
Before last spring, Lawrence resensu-
des had no option when it came to the water they drank. Since 1952, water in Lawrence is floundered.
Because part of the KU residence hall fees pay for water use, students in the halls are welcome to use the non-fluoridated water service, he said.
The new faucet and pipe system added to
the water plant to channel non-fluoridated water out of the main system cast the city at $1,300 to buy and install. It takes about two months for the water is added, but before the fluoride is added,
Vogt said the pump would not add significantly to the cost of running the plant because the pump only runs when the faucet is on.
An automatic timing system turns the pump on so it can backwash its filters nightly to produce clean water the next day.
The water that Lawrence residents drink is 30 percent per gallon of fluoride in it before traveling through the plant. After traveling through the plant, the water attains a fluoridation level of not more than 15 percent.
The non-fluoridated water faucet is open to public use from 7 a.m. to about 7 p.m. Veget the plant would close earlier in the winter.
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