Funding

State law mandates that Parking & Transportation on our campus must be self supporting. Only revenue earned from parking permits, meters, events and citations can be used to pay for the parking & transportation system on our campus. No tax money and no tuition funds are used to pay for parking.

All money brought in from citations pays for the enforcement of the rules. Individuals who break the rules end up paying for the efforts of the people who enforce the rules and write the citations.

Funds brought in from parking permits or parking meter time pay for the parking & transportation program itself:

• The bond payments.
• The LTD Ridership program.
• Bicycle parking facilities and route improvements
• Labor costs of the regular staff and student employees who are involved in managing all the facets of the program.
• Parking lot and space care and maintenance, from filling a pothole to sweeping up the trash, pruning the bushes and repainting traffic lines.
• Supplies including office supplies, equipment, printing, and copying costs for such things as the One Day Visitor Permits a department gives out to its guests; and the maps we hand out showing parking, bike routes, emergency phones' and accessibility routes and entrances.
• Fees like the Storm Water Run-Off fee and programs like the City of Eugene Meter Override system.
• Materials and equipment like new meter mechanisms and new signs, as well as replacements for vandalized and stolen signs and equipment.
• Property for new parking, like the second half of the tennis court lots.

Any surplus of funds goes into an account called the Parking Reserve Fund, which is earmarked for parking improvements and additions.