thursday, September 20, 1979
daily nebraskan
page 7
Request would put parking cost in alumni budget
Dy Michelle Carr
The cost of replacement parkins if the alumni center is
built on campus should be Included in the center's budget,
according to members of the Parking Advisory Committee
and ASUN President Bud Cuca.
At a Wednesday meeting, the parking committee mov
ed to write a letter via Chancellor Young to the Central
Planning Committee suggesting that the committee
include the cost of displaced parking in the construction
budget. The parking committee also included in the letter
their concern of overflow Into existing lots from persons
using the center.
Cuca agreed with the suggestion, stating that the
Alumni Association has an obligation to pay for displaced
parking.
"If they (Alumni Association) can raise $500000, they
can pay for parking," Cuca said.
The Alumni Association helps the university In many
ways, but should refrain from harming student life, as it
Is doing In displacing parking, Cuca said .
"I don't think students should .be paying for it," Cuca
said .
John Meakin, committee member, said that the cost of
lost parking spaces should be determined in the cost of
the center.
"I don't feel that the university students, faculty or
staff thould bear the brunt of this financial burden,"
Meakin said.
GORDON SCHOLZ, COMMITTEE member, agreed
with Meakin and said that "the facility Itself will generate
more parking with a substantial number of offcampus
users."
According to John Duve, UNL Parking coordinator, 18
parking stalls are to be included in the center's plans.
"It is ridiculous to put the center on campus with only
18 stalls. People will say 'Here's this beautiful monument
but you gan't get to the damn thing,' " committee mem.
ber Clinton Hoover said.
Duve noted that under the Central Planning Commit,
tee's comprehensive plan, additional parking problems will
occur. Parking lot 1 6, which is adjacent to the metered lot
where the center's proposed site is, eventually will be con
verted to landscape within 3 to 5 years.
However, Duve and committee members said they were
not aware of such policy or a statement of that policy In
the plan. Duve said this policy may have existed injhc
past, but the administration may have to take another
look at parking policy in view of high gasoline prices and
the energy crunch.
Duve and committee chairman Giff Hollestelle said
that no alternative suggestions to the parking replacement
could be made at the meeting. A.
Alternatives will be discussed at next month's meeting,
Hollestelle said. Committee members are encouraging
input from anyone Interested In the parking problem.
In other matters the committee heard comments from
T.E. Hartung, dean of the College of Agriculture. Hartung
said Sen. Don Wescly of Lincoln has received complaints
from residents in neighborhoods near the East Campus
area about students parking on the streets.
Hartung also said that a graded fee system should be
installed for staff permits. Under this system, staff who
preferred to park close to the campus would pay the usual
$35, but staff that preferred to park in perimenter lots
and walk farther would pay a reduced fee.
Hartung said $35 is too high for permits. "For mem
bcrs of the staff, such as secretaries and technicians who
only make $6,000 to $7,000 (a year), $35 bucks is a
pretty big bite."
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