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Edited Proposal 219
Edited Proposal 219
Edited Proposal 219
ending never matches with when meters are up; students get left with
tickets or spending more than needed, and most times, our last bits of
money. In the following document we have included more reasons why
parking has become such an issue for UNM students specifically, and
how we propose to solve them. I do hope that you take our thoughts
into consideration and hear your student body out for a compromise.
Problem:
Parking for students is one of the worst ranked aspects of UNM.
Students have such a hard time paying and finding parking on campus
and it causes strain unnecessary strain on everyone. Everyday
students have the option of meter parking on main campus, paying for
a pass on another lot near UNM, riding a shuttle to school, walking, and
few other choices. The problems with each of these options are as
follows:
Meter parking is very limited and doesnt have the payment options
accessible for everyone. Students pay by the half hour and that is too
short since wed need at least an hour. This parking is in, mostly,
inconvenient areas on campus. Also, the payment methods for the
meters receive are not, for the most practical for college students.
Sometimes students are ticketed within minutes of the expiration time
on their meters.
The shuttle parking is a good idea some of the time, but it is also
unfair. We students who choose this way purchase passes for assigned
lots where we can park and then are shuttled to campus to and from
this lot when we need to come and go from campus. This is a problem
because the shuttles become full and make it hard to get on to get to
class on time. They are also inconvenient for students to go to and get
things from causing those students to carry as much things in their
bags as possible. We are ticketed for parking in these lots without a
present pass, but students who cheat the system can park at adjacent
homes and on the neighboring streets around campus and ride the
shuttles with no consequences. Game days can make these lots
especially difficult, because some of the lots are pay-to-park only on
game days for game goers. Therefore, students who have classes or
need to go to campus and want to do so with their paid passes cannot
because the school makes them pay to park in these lots even though
they already may have of the purchased passes.
Walking to and from campus is a decision many students who live in
the area choose to take, but this only works for students who live near
or on campus. Those students who live further away and elsewhere are
left to resorted to other means.
This is highlighting only a few problems that we students have with
campus parking and why. In 2013 it can be observed that there was
40,100 citations distributed and then the fall of 2014 there was an
increase close to an astonishing 41,000 citations handed out. With
Solution:
There are 3 measures that we propose are needed in order to better
the overall parking situation at UNM. They serve as are what we found
would be most efficient and beneficial to the student body. They
Biography of members:
Cullen Monaco, a full time student at The University of New Mexico,
expected to graduate in 2019. Cullen established the Voice of the
Students, or V.O.S. while attending her first year at UNM with the
understanding that there needed to be a student-led entity giving the
school more feedback on what they think can improve campus. After
the start of the V.O.S. Cullen lead the new organization to take on
The costs that can be expected will be expected for this project is
estimated to be $4,716,859.80. As seen from the attached budget the
school would earn roughly $321,690.20 from the revenue collected
from event parking along with the savings accumulated from not
paying parking officer wages weekly. When dipping into costs we see
that UNM wouldnt be making the annual revenue they receive from
students paying citations and paying for parking passes; keeping the
shuttles running is added into total costs as well. UNM will still benefit
from the paid parking system in both the Yale and Cornell parking
structures because they will still be generating some money. Also,
event-parking fees will aid the Parking and Transportation Department
Thank you for allowing The Voice of the Students to work with
your organization on this project as best suited for everyone that will
be affected. V.O.S founder, Cullen Monaco, will be in contact with your
department as summer break 2017 approaches so that the enough
time to given while these changes become instilled on campus.