Vol. 128, No. 62 Thursday, November 8, 2018
OPINION
SPORTS
ARTS & CULTURE
Head-to-Head: Does social media connect or divide us?
A new leader has emerged for CSU offensive line
Slow Caves announces new EP
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Cars are parked at the B.W. Pickett arena at Colorado State University’s Foothills Campus on Nov. 6. CSU is considering implementing parking permits for the Foothills Campus starting in the fall of 2019, but there has been some pushback to the measure, including a petition against the proposed permit system. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN
Foothills Campus petitions against parking fees By Emma Iannacone @EmmaIannacone
Nearly 800 people are petitioning to stop Parking and Transportation Services from implementing parking fees at the Colorado State University Foothills Campus. The Atmospheric Sciences department, the Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology department, the Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory and the Engineering Research Center conducted individual petitions resulting in a total of 794 signatures opposing changes to
the Foothills Campus parking regulations. The formerly free lots are transitioning to permit parking in August 2019, according to Facilities Management and CSU’s Parking and Transportation Services, in order to fund CSU’s Parking and Transportation Services and fund updates to the Foothills Campus. Parking and Transportation Services receives funding only through the revenue it generates through fees, according to the department’s website. Fred Haberecht, campus planner of Facilities Management, said CSU mandates that each
campus pays into the services, which is not currently the case at the Foothills Campus. An outside consulting firm, Creek Consulting, conducted five information sessions from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2 with campus members to find out how to best accommodate the needs of the campus. According to the petitions, the sessions lacked adequate opportunity to provide feedback and the proposals weren’t transparent. Many who attended the informational meetings, according to the petitions, found them to be “confusing and structured in such
a way as to discourage meaningful conversations about the proposal.” According to PTS, the sessions were well-attended and invited feedback via email, which they are still accepting. “Parking and Transportation Services and the Vice President for University Operations shared information about the sessions with Deans and asked them to forward the information to their campus constituents because there is no central email system for the Foothills Campus,” wrote Public Safety and Risk Communications Manager Dell Rae Ciara-
vola in an email to The Collegian. Several concerns were brought forward in the petitions sent to David Bradford, the director of PTS, including financial hardship for employees and students whose research opportunities may be hindered by the cost of parking fees. Bradford told The Collegian previously that he recognizes the difficulty in asking people to pay for a service that was originally free, but the need for upkeep outweighs the convenience. For the University’s main
see FOOTHILLS on page 4 >>