Enforcement
It was clear that many of the existing parking issues could be resolved by a system of strict enforcement and consequences for ALL constituencies. While the Committee stressed the need for effective preventive measures: advance publicity to everyone about parking policies, together with new maps and signage, it will be necessary to insure that we enforce our existing policies, as well as any new ones, consistently.
Currently, many students do not pay their parking tickets and accumulate large numbers of tickets; faculty and staff are rarely ticketed and almost never pay when they are. Towing is sometimes effective, but those costs are paid to the towing company. Students are towed, faculty and staff are not. Students raised concerns about the problem of drunk and reckless driving on campus and the ability of Public Safety to enforce state laws on College property.
The Committee proposed the following:
- Create student-employment jobs for ticketing cars, provide bikes or golf cart to patrol lots.
- Ticket ALL parking violators: faculty, staff and students.
- Increase parking fines (Public Safety to explicate this).
- State the deadline for payment. If ticket is not paid, the fine increases and is put on College bill. ALL fines to be completed by end of each semester. For faculty and staff, can we enforce? payroll deduction?
- Establish a 6-ticket maximum. After 6 tickets loss of parking sticker for the remainder of the academic year. If 6 more tickets are incurred after the return of sticker, lose parking privileges forevermore.
- Establish a parking appeals committee (majority of students, but faculty and staff representation if they wish). Individuals who are ticketed may appeal their tickets at a regularly stated hearing time. The appeals committee may devise creative sanctions if they deem the appeal to be reasonable ( e.g. forgive a ticket for campus clean up.
- Purchase two Denver Boots for parking enforcement of illegally parked cars or cars with excessive tickets.
- Employ a system of large, sticky, ugly, window stickers which can be applied to driver's side window with current violation written on them.
- Tow only as a last resort to insure that the maximum income is paid to the College.
TO BE DETERMINED
Chuck Furgal and Paul Meade will research the issues of drunk and reckless driving and propose a policy and system and enforcement. The Committee will review this at a meeting in February and include that in our report.