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IPI Names Casey Jones Chairman of the Board
The International Parking Institute (IPI) has announced that Casey Jones, CAPP,
Director of Transportation and Parking at Boise (Idaho) State University, is now Chairman of the IPI Board. Newly elected members on the IPI Board of Directors are Rick Decker, CAPP,
Assistant Manager of Parking Operations for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport; Dan Kupferman, CAPP, Regional Man- ager of Parkeon, Mashpee, MA; and Chuck Reedstrom, CAPP, Senior Practice Builder at Kimley-Horn and Associates, Houston. Continuing as members of IPI’s Board of Directors are Cindy Campbell, Associ-
ate Director of the University Police Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA; (immediate past Chair)Wanda Brown, Assistant Manager of Parking and Transporta- tion Services at the UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento; Tracy Bruch, CAPP, Park- ing Manager for the city of Clearwater, FL; Allen Corry, CAPP, Parking Services Director for the town of Greenwich, CT; Tim Haahs, PE, AIA, FASCE, President of Timothy Haahs & Associates, Blue Bell, PA; Kim E. Jackson, CAPP, Director of Park- ing and Transportation Services at Princeton (NJ) University; Michael T. Klein, CAPP, Executive Director of the Albany (NY) Parking Authority; (Chairman Elect) Liliana Rambo, CAPP, Director of Parking Services for Houston Airport Systems; Michael Simmons, President/CEO of T2 Systems, Indianapolis; Michael E. Swartz, Senior Vice President of Standard Parking Corp., Chicago; and MollyWinter, Director for the city of Boulder (CO)-Downtown & University Hill Management Division & Park- ing Services.
UNLV Solves Disabled Permit Abuse on Campus
Tad McDowell, Director of Parking & Transportation Services at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas, recently responded to questions from Parking Today on han- dling handicapped permit abuse on campus: When I arrived at UNLV, there seemed to be a very large number of handicap
spaces, most of which were being used. This seemed really out of the ordinary compared to other places I had been, and I understood that it had been that way for some time. Through monitoring of the spaces and calling tag numbers into the DMV, we would
fine and boot those individuals using tags that did not belong to them. After exercising this practice for a few years, it didn’t seem to solve the problem. We determined that the primary reason for the abuse was because it was free [parking] and was a way to get out buying a campus permit. We acquired a recommendation from the [university’s] Parking Advisory Commit-
tee to establish a permit and fee, which was later approved by [the UNLV] administra- tion. It was then determined that not only did we need to do this, but we also had to estab- lish a fee for visitors as well; otherwise, the abuse would continue. To address this issue, meters were installed at each handicap parking space along
with a sign. The sign states that without a campus handicap permit, the meter must have time placed on it. The state handicap permit or placard must be in the vehicle at all times, along with the meter usage or the campus permit. When a faculty member, staff member or student comes in to purchase the handicap
permit, they have to provide a copy of their state placard and the letter they received when acquiring it. This is then kept on file. By doing this, we increased our handicap open space count during the day by 150%. PT Editor John Van Horn adds these comments: The problem with abuse of
handicapped placards basically goes away when you charge for the space. McDowell charged non-university personnel for the space (but you still needed a state-issued permit), and didn’t charge if they had a university-issued permit. But his department strictly controlled those permits, requiring that a person have both a state- and uni- versity-issued permits.
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