UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
of the FRASER VALLEY

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Volume 8, N umber 26 February 1, 1994

Parking quick facts

e Pay parking starts Feb. 14, and will
be managed by Execupark Parking.
All existing UCFV permits become
void on this day.

e Additional employee parking will be
established in Abbotsford near
Building E.

e Employee parking will be created in
Chilliwack, most of it behind the
main building from the staff lounge
to the bookstore, with some spaces
near the Health Sciences Centre.

e Students and those not wanting to
park in employee lots will be
charged 50 cents per day to park in.
general lots (one ticket is good on
both campuses).

e Carpool lots will be set up on both
campuses for groups of three or
more who purchase carpool permits.

e Employee passes will cost $15 per
month for those earning over
$35,000/year and $7.50 per month
for those earning less than that.
Employees will be charged for only
eight months per year but costs will
be deducted from paycheques in 12
monthly payments.

e Execupark will set up booths to
issue employee and carpool permits
in Abbotsford and Chilliwack on
Feb. 8 and 9 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
and in Abbotsford on Feb 10.

e People buying permits will need to
provide vehicle registration info.

e Visitors. will pay 50 cents per hour.

e Volunteers and people with
disabilities will park for free.

e For more information contact
ExecuPark at 854-4595 or Facilities
at local 4542.

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One person’s junk — Theatre students Erin Wells and Andrew Smith pose with some of
the oddball stuff that the Theatre department has collected over the years. They’re always
looking for donated items to use as props, so if you’re cleaning out your attic and find
some quirky stuff, give Astrid Beugeling a call at local 2476.

Pay parking starts Feb. 14

After several delays, pay parking will
begin at the Abbotsford and Chilliwack
campuses on Monday, Feb. 14.

Originally slated to start in September,
pay parking was delayed until January at
the request of the Student Society to
allow more time for planning. When the
announcement that it was imminent
generated many questions and
suggestions, it was delayed for another
month so that the Bursar’s office could
hear concerns and respond to them.

One concern that was quickly
addressed was the cost of student parking
— it was lowered to 50 cents per day
from $1.

Many other concerns were aired at
parking forums in mid-January hosted by

President Peter Jones and Bursar Norah
Andrew.

At the forums, Jones said that it was
necessary to implement pay parking
because of:

e the need to generate revenue to cover
a $50,000 shortfall in the 93/94
budget and to avoid such shortfalls in
the future — “if it doesn’t come from
pay parking, it will have to come
from somewhere else”

e the refusal of the Ministry to include
the cost of parking lots in funding for
new buildings, and the resulting need
to create reserve funds for future lots

e increased costs of maintaining and
patrolling current lots due to rising
Please see page 2