PREAMBLE: SRJC’s comprehensive parking and transportation program provides service to 37,000 students, full and part-time faculty and staff and to tens of thousands of campus visitors including vendors, consultants and community members.

PROBLEMS: Three significant problems confront the College:

1. There remains a significant shortage of parking spaces.
2. There is a current lack of acreage, at the Santa Rosa Campus, necessary to construct new parking facilities.
3. There are inadequate financial resources to sustain the current operation and construct needed new parking.

1. Improve shuttle lot operations by acquiring a permanent location and

extending the hours of service from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Benefit: More dependable location and shuttle lot service

2. Assign temporary staff to shuttle lot and provide fee reduction incentives for voluntary relocation to regular faculty and staff.

Benefit: Increases student parking access by removing approximately 200

temporary and other staff from student lots and may lessen staff parking lot

demand thus easing congestion.

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3. Improve equity and efficiency in assignment of permanent staff to staff

lots. Improve enforcement of seniority system in assignment of staff to lots.

Benefit: Improved staff morale

 

 

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4. Increase subsidization for alternative forms of transportation including

public transit, carpools and bicycles.

Benefit: Reduce number of cars accessing campus parking lots thus

reducing demand and congestion.

5. Acquire more land for the Santa Rosa Campus and construct additional flat

surface parking (Santa Rosa 500 spaces and Petaluma 250 spaces).

Benefit: Substantial increase of parking space availability at both sites thus easing congestion ad providing needed capacity.

6. Continue to make parking lot improvements at existing lots.

Benefit: Increase of 247 student parking spaces at Santa Rosa and 65 at

Petaluma.

7. Address infrastructure and potential safety concerns.

8. Improve parking and transportation system protocols.

The College last addressed its semester parking fee structure eleven years ago in 1990. Basic parking fees then were raised from $20 per semester to $40 per semester. Since then operations, land acquisitions and construction costs have risen substantially. It is recommended that the College increase some fees in order to address operational and capital improvements and reduce others in an attempt to induce participation in alternative forms of transportation. The following fee structure is recommended:

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It allows for the continued subsidization of BOG students at $20.00 per semester and provides discounts for seniors, ASB members and incentives for use of the shuttle lot and carpools. It changes the replacement decal fee to a semester full price cost basis.