Stop SMC Parking Fees

Any parking fee should BE WAIVED for faculty and staff earning less than $80K per year (figure arrived at with assistance of the Living Wage Calculator Bay Area for a single adult or an adult in a two-income home [2]), and BE WAIVED for any students receiving financial aid covering 40% or more of their tuition. For faculty and staff earning more than $80K, any parking fees should be linked to faculty or staff pay—and no one making less than 100K per year be asked to pay more than $150 per year. No student should be asked to pay more than $100 per year. With college tuition rising, a parking fee would add to the inability of many students to pay for college and possibly increase future loan repayments.

Any parking fee should BE WAIVED for faculty and staff earning less than $80K per year (figure arrived at with assistance of the Living Wage Calculator Bay Area for a single adult or an adult in a two-income home [2]), and BE WAIVED for any students receiving financial aid covering 40% or more of their tuition.

Any parking fee should BE WAIVED for faculty and staff earning less than $80K per year (figure arrived at with assistance of the Living Wage Calculator Bay Area for a single adult or an adult in a two-income home [2]), and BE WAIVED for any students receiving financial aid covering 40% or more of their tuition.

this is bogus. Reduce top end salaries instead, and eliminate needless waste like soccer, baseball, and many other sports if we cant afford parking. Sports cause a lot of the traffic in the first place!

I don't have enough money.

Any parking fee should BE WAIVED for faculty and staff earning less than $80K per year (figure arrived at with assistance of the Living Wage Calculator Bay Area for a single adult or an adult in a two-income home [2]), and BE WAIVED for any students receiving financial aid covering 40% or more of their tuition.

Without having to type the same as others I agree with the following statement made by Susan Weisman: My two plus cents on parking (on the feedback form): SMC has failed to provide adequate parking for the campus. Good intentions about reducing a carbon footprint are platitudes when no resources are devoted to making it happen. Where is the usable public transportation that is possible to use throughout the day? Making people pay to reduce the number of cars is utopian: people have to show up at work and it is up to the employer to make that possible. What workplace makes coming to work difficult, time-consuming and completely unpredictable? The program will pay for the enforcement of the current situation but not the construction of alternatives. It shows contempt for the people who make Saint Mary's possible, the faculty and staff, not to mention the students. In the absence of concrete measures like reliable, frequent, regular public transportation alternatives and more dedicated parking spaces, we should hire students or others to do carpark stacking -- or even valet from the kiosk entry. We have to get to our classes on time or the classes can't take place. The notion that slapping a flat $300 (or more) annual fee will encourage carpooling when very few come from the same place or have the same schedule (we are not a 9-5 operation for faculty or students) -- or otherwise reduce the number or cars without viable alternative methods to reach campus, is utopian, misguided and will be counterproductive. This program seems designed to augment and increase the alienation and disgruntlement felt about the college and already at its highest level among faculty, staff, and students. There are more creative and fairer solutions. The proposed fees should be abandoned. To repeat: The college is not building parking structures, adding regular access through public transportation or increasing spaces for parking. The exorbitant, regressive fee proposed will

Any parking fee should BE WAIVED for faculty and staff earning less than $80K per year (figure arrived at with assistance of the Living Wage Calculator Bay Area for a single adult or an adult in a two-income home [2]), and BE WAIVED for any students receiving financial aid covering 40% or more of their tuition.

Unless we are given a guaranteed parking spot, to pay $300 a year is not reasonable.

I don't even hear any conversation about how parking would be guaranteed if fees are implemented, and so we'd be paying fees and still not have parking. I am opposed to parking fees, especially because we are not then guaranteed reasonable parking.

This is particularly taxing to staff and faculty who happen to be single parents.

This parking fee does not take into account those students, faculty and staff who do not make a living wage. In addition, how this will affect workers with Sodexo or the College Bookstore.

Any parking fee should BE WAIVED for faculty and staff earning less than $80K a year, and BE WAIVED for any students receiving financial aid covering 40% or more of their tuition.

I strongly feel that students should not pay for parking. And more transportation for students should be offered.

I already have trouble with money as it is, $300 for parking is not plausible for someone of my economic background or income.

The on campus parking honestly makes me want to transfer. I pay parking tickets every semester that exceed a parking permit fee. Parking is literally the worst part about the college experience here at SMC.

I already have to pay for visitor parking because there’s too little commuter parking (and too much visitor parking). Please fix the issues rather than charging people

This is outrageous. Charging students and staff/faculty upwards of $500 and $300 respectively, is a gross expense to charge students who already pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend Saint Mary's. This is not a just solution, nor does it align with the values of the college. What about not allowing first year students to bring cars? What about charging a small fee for students who live on campus? These parking fees directly impact low income students, aforementioned by someone else on this post, therefore making the quality education we boast about incredibly inaccessible for low income students. We cannot ask students to pay for parking that we don't have. Let's talk about charging for parking when we have a parking structure!

We should not have to pay for parking if we aren’t not guaranteed a parking spot. Our tuition is always being raised and parking fees are inappropriate and inconsiderate of the people in the SMC community. We are not a school in which it is easy to walk or ride your bike especially if you commute.

It is ludicrous that we will be required to pay to park and are receiving tickets without probable cause. Saint Mary's needs to find other means to find money.