The district Board
of Trustees approved a 50-cent increase of daily parking permit
costs on October 26. The increase is expected to go into effect
next semester at both LPC and Chabot.
Rich Butler, LPC Director of Safety and Security, hopes the
increase will push more students to purchase semester permits.
“[Daily permits] are the least of our revenue,” Butler
said. “We’d rather have semester permit sales than
daily permit sales. They are a haphazard thing.”
Butler has noticed this fall that many more students are buying
semester permits. He attributes the increase to a “combination
of education and enforcement” on campus.
LPC Department of Maintenance and Operations ordered new components
for the “ticker spitter” machines, so they accept one-dollar
bills. Butler said the machines may not be Y2K compliant. In
such case, the permit increase would be pushed back until the
problem is fixed.
The money earned from daily and semester permits finances
parking lot maintenance and security officer salaries.