April 25, 2002
Members Present: Paul Bixby, Ralph Davis, Craig Edmonston, Gloria Fry, Reggie Houser, Jay Huneycutt, Carol Lane, Lorraine Lorne, David Martinson, Bill Mock, John Reid, Gary Smith and Dio Tsitoures. Also present were Miles Sonstegaard from Economics, Henry Wendel from RIC and Elaine Quinn, acting secretary.
The minutes of the March 14, 2002 meeting were approved.
Old Business
1. Lot Designations: Two parking lots will be constructed this summer on the west and southwest side of Pomfret Hall. There should be about 215 parking spaces. Athletics is building one of the lots but wants to exchange it for lot 55. The lots should be completed before classes start in the fall. Paul Bixby moved to designate both new lots as Resident Reserved parking. Motion was seconded and passed.
Last year the Board of Trustees voted down the committee’s recommendation to do away with the Commuter permit. It was resubmitted this year and the Board of Trustees approved the elimination of Commuter permits. The Commuter parking lots will become Off Campus lots.
2. Razorback Foundation: wants the option to use lots 32, 33, 33A, 34, 38, 16, 70 and 71 for scholarship football parking. There is no plan by the Razorback Foundation to relocate vehicles, just barricade and use the lots. Committee concerns were about events going on in the buildings in the areas of these lots, some classes are on Saturdays and several faculty and staff who work then. Jay Huneycutt made a motion concerning Razorback Foundation/Coach Horton’s request that the committee would consider these lots as scholarship lots upon additional review of surrounding buildings. Suggestions were made to contact Grad Education, Fulbright Institute, Engineering, KUAF, ROTC, and the fraternities and sororities. The motion was seconded and passed.
3. Parking Regulation Changes: The new permit fees were approved. Information regarding meter use when it malfunctions will be added. If you are parked at a malfunctioning meter, you have the maximum amount of time that meter provides. Also on some meters that are continuously vandalized a sign will be installed on the top explaining there will be no parking if meter is malfunctioning.
4. Meter Rate Increases: When the parking deck was originally designed it was suggested that meter fees in the deck increase 5¢ a year. Last year the committee voted to have all meters be 75¢ an hour, except lot 26, which remained a $1 an hour. This reduced the deck meters that were at 80¢ an hour. We are behind on meter revenue this year. There are approximately 450 meters on campus. Paul Bixby made a motion to increase the meter fee to 85¢ an hour and $1.25 an hour in lot 26. The motion was seconded and passed.
Announcements
1. Lot 36 Update: SWEPCO changed the direction of the two lights in the lot by setting a new pole. The new direction is providing more light. A fence will be installed after a survey has been done.
2. Summer Maintenance:
Transit and Parking will have its own 13 space tow storage lot on the west end of the indoor tennis building. There will be a $10 per day storage charge, which will commence 24 hours after the vehicle has been towed.
Two rows of parking will be added to lot 40, north of Hotz Hall.
A suggestion was made to widen the lot 67entrance and patch the gravel hole in the middle of the lot. There is also a hole problem in lot 70, behind the Dickson Street Annex.
Parking will be removed from Maple Street to make the street safer for pedestrians. There will be two new bus pull offs and green space on the south side. This will be a summer ’02 or ’03 project.
The Garland Avenue project will begin May 13th. Jay Huneycutt has designed the landscaped campus entrance project. It will have columns, gates, decorative paving and landscaping.
Update on the Garland Avenue widening from Maple Street to North Street; the bid will go out next month. There will be six months to a year’s worth of utility relocation before the actual widening work begins. One row of parking will be lost in lot 29 and two rows in lot 37 by Hotz Hall due to the widening of Garland. Summer maintenance will cost us $294,000 and $103,000 in AHTD funds.
New Business
Elect Chair: Paul Bixby was nominated for the position of Chair. Reggie Houser moved to approve Paul as Chair by acclamation. The motion was seconded and passed.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 p.m.