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Parking director candidates open three forums
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Three finalists for the position of director of parking and transportation services will be available for discussion during three open forums scheduled in February.
Students, faculty and staff of BSU can air their parking concerns with candidates, Daniel Carpenter, Jared Everett and Gary Beddingfield.
Currently, Carpenter is the manager of planning and transit at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He said he prefers a democratic approach to solving parking problems.
“I’m not there to say what we’re going to do. I’ll present the options to Boise State and let them decide.”
Carpenter added that at the University of Nebraska he presented a list of options that included restrictions on freshman parking, offsite parking with shuttles and parking structures.
Everett, Arizona State University’s program coordinator, if selected for the position, said his top priorities include the development of alternative transportation. Everett said this means emphasizing a partnership with Boise Urban Stages, car-pooling and bike transportation, rather than more parking constructions.
“The cost of parking structures is at least $7000 per parking space. It’s more financially viable to look at the alternative modes, ” Everett said.
He also said BSU issues too many parking citations.
Beddingfield served as parking administrator for California State University in Fresno since 1998. Prior to that, he was FSU’s employee transportation coordinator. Beddingfield could not be reached for comment.
Open forums with the parking director candidates will be held in the Student Union Building. Carpenter is scheduled Tuesday, Feb. 4 in the Jordan B Ballroom. Everett is available the following Tuesday, Feb. 11 in the Alexander Room and Beddingfield comes in on Thursday, Feb. 13 in the Bishop Barnwell Room.
Each discussion is scheduled from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Bonnie Killian, of BSU Parking and Transportation said students, faculty and staff are welcome.
The new director will be responsible for planning campus access for a student body consisting of 90 percent commuters.
In 2000, Walker Parking Consultants studied BSU’s parking shortage. During peak times they found that 70 percent of campus parking spaces and 90 percent of street parking places were filled.
Their study estimated that BSU would need 2500 more spaces by 2010. In order to reach that goal, Walker Parking Consultants recommended re-striping the stadium parking lot to add 82 spaces.
They also recommended more parking structures. The first would add 499 spaces to the Brady Street garage. The next would be an 834-space garage on Lincoln Avenue. An additional 1298-space garage was recommended for 2006 on Belmont Street.
The estimated cost of the garages was over $23 million as of the year 2000.
Linda Cook, The Arbiter