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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,2011
PARKING
Ticket fines raised to fund department
CHRISTY NUTT editor@kansan.com
As much as students hate paying parking tickets, the parking department relies on them to operate. August 1 all fines increased by at least $5.
"It is already expensive, but maybe they are putting it to a good cause," Jenna Domann, a junior from Nortonville said.
The additional money generated from the increase will go into the regular parking department's budget that pays for a variety of areas from wages to parking lot maintenance.
The parking department wants to have extra funds for a long term plan to fix needed maintenance and repairs, said Donna Hultine, parking department director.
"If we don't put the money in now we're going to end up completely rebuilding parking lots," she said.
The parking department estimates that the increase in fines will bring in nearly $100,000 more in revenue.
Hultine said there is a sense of urgency for the increase because there are locations on campus with crumbling asphalt.
"It is hard to charge people money to park there when it's in bad shape," Hultine said.
Fines that will increase by only $5 include expired meters, wrong zone tickets and no valid permit. Fines for other offenses will increase more.
Hultine said fines for more serious violations, like safety violations, will also increase more than $5.
The ticket for blocking a fire lane will increase by $35. A ticket for wrongfully parking in a handicapped spot will increase by $50
The fee for forged, altered or stolen parking permits will receive the most severe increase. Starting next year the cost of a permit that was forged, altered or stolen will be a $100 fine. This will make the fine for a forged gold permit $385, $100 for the fine and $285 for the cost of the permit. Since August, the department issued 20 tickets for forged permits, said Margretta de Vries, parking commission's secretary.
The increase in fines has been in budget talk for a while, Hultine said.
The parking commissions first considered an increase for parking permits. An increase in the price of parking permits would provide the bigget impact because they provide the largest part of our revenue, Hultine said.
The parking commission decided not to increase the price of permits because of the anticipated reaction.
"As we were going forward, administration was saying, 'I_don't think that is going to be supported," Hultine said.
The fine increase was first proposed in a budget by the parking commission and then approved by the provost, de Vries said.
The last across-the-board increase was in 1997 when the parking department increased all fines by $5, de Vries said.
Starting Aug. 1 all parking ticket fines will increase by at least $5.
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"There was one student that said, It was the best idea that KU has ever had." Rourke said.
Renting textbooks has also become a more popular option among students.
Rentals cost 61 percent less than new print textbooks and could reduce the yearly amount spent on textbooks, according to Student PIRGs, an organization consisting of college students that looks at the rising cost of college.
We are the non-profit store for the University," Rourke said. "Every profit that we make goes right back into student success such as the Student Union Activities (SUA) and the campus radio station,
But while students can save money renting or buying online, the bookstore prides itself on being there for students even after they've bought their textbooks.
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