1. Parking Space Shortages: Even with recent and planned re-stripping projects, there continues to be an insufficient number of parking spaces to accommodate the Santa Rosa Junior College enrollments and staff assignments at the Santa Rosa and Petaluma Campuses. Over time the problem has continued to worsen. The parking problem is growing in the shortage of spaces and in the length of time both campuses are negatively impacted each semester. Whereas ten years ago the Santa Rosa campus was negatively impacted for the first eight (8) to ten (10) weeks of each semester, it is apparent that both campuses experience grave parking shortages throughout the entire semester. Despite continued efforts to increase the number of available parking spaces, the College continues to experience a significant parking shortage.

2. Lack of Acreage: Campus Police and Administrative Services estimate that a minimum of five hundred (500) parking spaces are needed at the

3. Inadequate Financial Resources: California community college parking and transportation programs are self-supporting services. No general fund monies are expended in support of these operations. For Santa Rosa Junior College, the cost of necessary capital improvements and operational expense outstrip revenues necessary to keep pace with parking and program service demand. Two primary factors impact parking and transportation program funding. First, due to current state regulations, fees are artificially capped at a $40 per semester rate (47 cents per day) insufficient to produce the necessary revenue to operate and expand parking and transportation services. Parking revenues are further restricted by mandates limiting the amount of parking fees charged to Basic Opportunity Grant students (BOG) and the College providing various special discounts. Second, the combination of high land acquisition and capital construction costs and program operations exceed revenue production. Land, if available, near the Santa Rosa campus is valued at in excess of $1 million per acre. Construction costs of flat surface parking spaces ($3,000 per space) or multi-level parking structures ($15,000 per space) make the expansion of needed parking services rather expensive. Necessary services such as shuttle lot operations, carpool and transit system subsidies are costly too.

1. Improved Shuttle Lot Operations: The shuttle lot operation has provided a needed capacity safety valve for the overall parking program. Highly utilized in the early to mid portions of the semester, the shuttle operation allows an alternative to filled on-campus parking for both students and staff. It has suffered by the lack of a permanent location and reduced service hours. It usage tends to shrink later in the semester due to a reduced demand due to increased on-campus parking opportunities due to the conclusion of short courses and natural attrition.

2. Assignment of Staff To The Shuttle Lot: A number of temporary staff, some part-time staff and faculty currently compete for parking spaces within the student parking lots. It is estimated that 150 to 200 temporary staff and an additional 100 regular part-time staff utilize the student lots. A gain in increased student access to student lots would be realized by

3. Improved Equity and Efficiency In Assignment of Permanent Staff to Staff Lots: During the course of this past year, the College has reviewed the proposed expansion of the scramble reserved system for on-campus faculty and staff lots. This system would open all staff lots up to faculty and staff use on a "first come, first serve basis". It is assumed it would provide improved efficiency in utilization of staff parking spaces. Under this system staff would not be assigned to a particular lot but would compete for parking in any staff lot throughout the campus. It would then reduce the stress on Campus Police in making lot assignments and providing a seniority system and allowing a wide-range of exemptions. Though plausible, this proposal did not meet with College wide approval and has since been abandoned for the present until overall improved staff lot capacity could be realized. However, the need for efficiency and equity in the administration of the parking and transportation program still exists.

4. Continued Subsidization For Alternative Forms of Transportation: Currently SRJC provides incentives to students, faculty and staff who either use the public transit system (reduced bus pass fees), carpool

(reduced parking fees), bicycles and scooters (racks).

5. Land Acquisitions and Construction of Additional Flat Surface Parking Lots: While the parking problem is more acute at the Santa Rosa Campus, both campuses need additional parking spaces. Santa Rosa needs an additional four (4) acres of land to accomodate five hundred new parking spaces. The desire would be to acquire such land as close or adjacent to the campus. If accomplished, the College could eliminate the need for the shuttle operation. At an estimated $1 million per acre, obtaining four acres is not only expensive but may be hard to accomplish given the paucity of available land near the Santa Rosa Campus. Yet the additional land and the spaces it would generate are needed.

At the Petaluma Campus, what is needed, on the short term, is the development of two (2) acres of campus land. The additional two hundred fifty (250) parking spaces generated should be sufficient until such time as the commencement of the Petaluma Phase II construction project.

6. Continuous Parking Lot Efficiency Improvements : During the past several months continuing into early Summer, 2001, the College has developed a number of parking lot improvement projects which include re-paving and re-stripping. When completed, the Santa Rosa Campus will net an additional 247 spaces during 2000/2001. Though welcome additions, these increased number of parking spaces and the new parking opportunities they create still fall short of addressing the Santa Rosa Campus need. The administration will continue to explore possible efficiency improvements at the Santa Rosa Campus. The opportunity for further improvement at Petaluma exists. Resealing, re-paving /re-stripping projects are surprisingly expensive. At this point, given parking fund commitments at the new Public Safety Training Center and the current Santa Rosa re-stripping project, there are not sufficient existing funds to address the Petaluma situation.

It is suggested that the College continue to pursue parking program efficiency projects at both the Petaluma Campus and Santa Rosa Campus.

7. Infrastructure/Safety Issues: The older Santa Rosa Campus, in particular, is beset with some infrastructure and safety issues related to parking and internal and external campus circulation. This eighty (80) year old campus has largely evolved rather than planned its infrastructure and circulation patterns. Internal campus vehicular access from one point to another is largely restricted due to facility barriers and other obstacles. There is no off-street perimeter road. Hence traffic flow on-campus and

on the surrounding city streets is dense. The College may want to explore, with a consultant, whether circulation patterns can be made more safe and efficient. Of particular concern is the increasing number of vehicular accidents along Armory Drive, especially at ingress/egress points at Pedroncelli Center, Scholars and Bear Cub Ways as well as at the intersection of Elliott and Armory. The College has begun working with the City and Cal Trans with an eye to slowing the traffic speed along Elliott and to improving safety conditions at ingress/egress points.

8. Parking and Transportation System Protocols: There are a number of system equity issues which impact employee morale and their perceptions as to the fairness of the existing parking and transportation system. First, as mentioned previously, enforcement of the existing seniority system needs to be improved. Though a problem related to staff access to those lots closest to their offices and/or classrooms throughout the College, it is particularly acute at the "B" lot adjacent to Bailey Hall. During the past fifteen years, as Campus Police has attempted to implement the seniority system as to preferred parking access, a great number of "exemptions and exceptions" have been granted due to position level of new hires, especially within the administrative ranks. This causes concern to those staff who have been on the parking lot waiting list and are inadvertently denied the opportunity to use their preferred lot due to the sometimes random "last in/first in" assignment of new staff to the lot in question. Those more senior staff frequently describe their status as "first hired/last assigned" and it has clearly become a morale issue and one which places Campus Police in a untenable position when assigning staff parking locations.

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Another systemic problem revolves around the matter of abuse of certain parking privileges. Replacement decals have become an issue for two reasons. First, the College is experiencing a significant increase in computerized forgeries of parking permits. What happens is an individual buys a replacement permit (at $5) and nearly perfectly duplicates it then either sells it or gives it to friends, family members, etc. Also, the College has had a long-term practice of issuing

a "second car" decal for use of a second car when the first car is not available, etc. With increasing frequency, the College Police have discovered both cars with the same permit number on campus at the same time. Thus people who have followed the rules are sometimes confronted with full lots occupied by vehicles that have gained illegal entry.

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