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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CAMPUS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2004
Parking department offers new stickers
Static-cling parking stickers will be made available next year
By Brooke Budke editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
Static-cling window stickers will replace traditional parking permit hang tags and rear window stickers for the 2005-2006 school year, according to the University of Kansas Parking Department.
In the past, pre-ordering permits had been known as a hassle because the choice of hang tags and rear window stickers complicated the ordering system.
With the new system, the cashiers in the parking office will have an easier job filling permit orders. The parking department envisions easier parking permit distribution with the new stickers, plus they can be moved from car to car.
Each sticker will be bar coded and holographic similar to the stickers used at Jiffy Lube and other car service companies.
The size and shape of the sticker will not change from the size of the rear window stickers currently used.
Donna Hultine, KU parking director, said the new permits would probably be placed in the lower left-hand corner of the front windshield.
Placing the sticker in the rear window could possibly reduce permit theft, but due to the different window tinting parking officers may not read the new bar codes correctly.
"If the permits are placed in the lower left-hand corner, the blue and gold permits allowed access to main campus will be easily seen by the booth attendants," Hultine said.
The field officers will use the bar code scanners in the field when writing tickets to check the permit's validity. The bar code scanners will take the place of keying in permit numbers by hand, therefore limiting human error and reading information more quickly, Hultine said.
The parking department's new computers resemble palm pilots and the scanners are already built into the handheld computers.
The scanners have not been worth using yet because it has been too difficult to scan a hang tag from the side of a
vehicle, she said
There will still be field officers with paper ticket books who write down permit numbers in case of malfunction or problems with the new system.
During a normal patrol, officers will not likely scan every permit to check its validity or the owner's past parking history. It is possible though, if the officers have time, that they will go through a parking lot and scan every permit.
"It would be an easy way to look for permits that have been reported lost or stolen, and permits that aren't valid or have some alteration," said Hultine.
There won't be an additional cost for the parking department to purchase scanners since they are already built into the hand-held computers currently used. The new type of permit will just make the scanners more useable.
Hultine said there wouldn't be a permit fee increase for the 2004-2005 school year.
She is uncertain whether permit prices will increase for the 2005-2006 year, when the traditional parking permit hang tags and rear window stickers are no longer available and new permits are issued.
— Edited by Abby Tillery
Photo Illustration by Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Photo Illustration by Courtney Kuhlen/Kansas The University of Kansas Parking Department has tested prototypes of static-cling window stickers to replace the traditional hang tags and stickers for the 2005-06 school year. The tags, which are intended to be more convenient, have been put in water, carried around in someone's pocket and have undergone other tests to ensure they will still stick to the inside of a window.
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