Weekend parking at Union won't cost

By By Robert Perkins (Contact)

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Its official. The parking garage by the Kansas Union is free on weekends.

Parking commission members unanimously voted at yesterdays meeting to advertise the lack of parking department patrols of the east parking garage on weekends.

We ought to make students feel as welcome as possible, said Tim Bengtson, parking commission member and associate professor of journalism.

Make it a goodwill thing: Welcome to the University of Kansas free parking. The garage has signs up stating that it costs one dollar an hour to park there, 24 hours a day. But according to Donna Hultine, director of parking services, the parking department has not checked the garage on weekends or after midnight on weekdays at all this semester.

In last Fridays edition of The University Daily Kansan, the article, Union garage free on weekends, publicized this fact, which Allen Ford, parking commission chairman, said necessitated action.

Anybody who read the article would probably quit paying on the weekend, so weve got to make a decision, he said.

Bengtson said he understood why students who had been paying for parking on the weekends would feel ripped off after reading the article.

Parking commission members said the department could afford to go without the revenue the garage had been generating on weekends. The department discovered an average of more than $300 per week was being deposited during a typical weekend, when workers conducted special collections in response to the Unions request for free weekend parking.

Commission members still havent made a decision about parking rates on weeknights.

Kyle Johnson, commission member and Wichita senior, said he supported free night parking.

From a students perspective, I think itd be great, he said. It doesnt look like were making loads of money from it. Other commission members said making the Union garage free at night could force them to make the Allen Fieldhouse garage free at night as well. They werent sure how much revenue was generated through ticketing illegal parkers in both locations.

The commission delayed voting on the issue until its next meeting on Nov. 18.

Pat Beard, building services director for KU Memorial Unions, said he was pleased with the outcome of the meeting.

Beard had been proposing free parking on weekends and at nights since Sept. 16 to provide safe parking for Union patrons who didnt want to spend a dollar an hour for parking.

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