Faculty Council (1/29/98) and University Senate (1/31/98)
Faculty Council
Faculty Council meeting on Thursday, Jan. 22, 1998, at 3:30 p.m.
Sarah Blouch, Director of Transportation and Parking - re DRAFT
Parking Master Plan
- A consultant described the plan that will be presented to the Board of
Trustees. The likely plan will include increases in central campus faculty parking fees from $222 per year to $500 per year over a 3 year period, with
a similar percent increase for student fees and B sticker fees ($83 to
$175). The consultant explained that the OSU parking system has been
seriously underfunded, and, for instance, the University of Michigan
charges faculty $875 per year.
- The extra revenue will be used for deferred maintenance on parking garages,
improving the bus service, and building 3000 additional spaces on central
campus, as well as provision for staff parking during the day for those who
need to run official errands.
- The consultant said that the goal is to make it possible to find parking on
central campus.
- Low cost parking on West Campus would still be available. I stated that my
experience with West Campus parking was that bus service was unreliable,
especially within an hour of the last posted time. Sarah agreed it was a
problem, but asserted that it had improved in the past year.
- I suggested that extra revenue could be raised by charging a high price for reserved spots. The consultant said that it might be inefficient to have
reserved spaces empty much of the time. I suggested that the high price reserved spots could come with hang tags, so that, for instance, a
department could choose to buy one for errands, etc. (Perhaps this could be an alternative for the Friends of the Collection, though not for casual
visitors to the Collection.)
University Traffic
and Parking Web Page
Interim President Richard Sisson -
- 1. The new president will be coming to campus at least once a month, but
will not be here permanently until after June 1.
- 2. State needs at least a 3/4% sales tax increase (the only feasible
revenue increase source) to meet the court mandate and maintain higher education, etc.
- 3. Several major initiatives will continue:
Selective Investment, for long term projects.
Academic Enrichment for shorter term, more concrete projects.
Faculty Development
Sherman Hanna, (click to email: HANNA.1@OSU.EDU)