ALBANYLSSEVDENF-PRESS
‘THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION
Turspay, May 4, 2010 - Issur 25
Parking tickets lead to big bucks
Ay ie in see window
By Jon Camports
Outgoing Mana
For the week before sprin
break, freshman James Golube
erved for sopho
mores and upperclassmen: the
ability to par
Goldberg purchased a four-day
$20, On the
temporary permit for
filth day, he was greeted with a
Familiar sight for many drive
atthe University at Albany’ as he
walked to his car in the parking
Jot on Indian Qual
gold and white parking ticket
hat showed he now owed the
sniversity an additional S50
T planned on leaving early
ne said. “I went out there and
leveryone was leaving, the whole
parking lot was empty. and I had
4950 parking ticket.”
Parking tickets bring in hun
dreds of thousands of dolla
each year for the university
including $542 S87 dri
2008-119 fiscal year alone. The
amount of citations written each
year outpaces that of other Stat
University of New York universi
y centers, including the Unive
sity at Buifalo, whieh has nearly
sige the amount of registered
ud out over
13.900 eitati
time period wit
ert
LOO of these tickers
chiles on campus and collected
STOSS7 less shan UAlbany last
year. an Allany Student Pr
of parking figures show
he university doled owt
2 tickets from July 2009
February of the current
1 enough for each one af th
chicles to be
cited at least once
-anwhile, UB hats issued
635
fered vehicles, while Binghamton
University had written 12,163
Jp mic April with
Parking statistics for Stony
Patrick Dodson/Toreh Yea
2009 10 Febru
00k
Brook University were not
immediately provided by the
school
Rose Dorsman, director of
Packing & Mass Transit Ser
Vices at U Albany, said her office
cenforces the parking rules “fairly
andl adequately
‘We do the best we can,” she
said, “Ldon’t think we specifi-
cally go after someone who is
illegally parked half an inch over
he Hine, or anything like that
she said. “I shink we legitimately
and accurately enforce
UATbany has collected
'9353.067 in citations that were
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UA only SUNY center with multi-citation policy
aid from July 2009 through
Februaty of this year, outpae
ing the previows year's total by
more than $40,000
was a leust partially driven by
The increase
n increase to the cost oF a basic
parking citation in January, from
$20 10 $30. This comes alter
licket reverie
$99,000
09 after the university hired an
uunyped by nearly
om 2007-08 10 2008.
additional ticket-enforeement
work an evening shilt
Dossman
officer
aid the decision to
increase the cast was a way to
help increase compliance with
parking
1g rales, not as
patking budget. which is about
SIS million, is completely self