7/1/2010: Over the last several years UO has raised parking fees by hundreds of dollars, to subsidize construction of the Matt Court garage and the Jock Box athlete-only lot. Today they announced they are lowering the faculty/staff fee from $400 to $384. Big whoop.
I am no economist but looks like UO Matters is clearly worth at least $16 per faculty/staff!
At least not another increase. But how much time and money did the sexual harassment investigation of public safety cost? How much is a 10 percent raise for Doug Trip costing us? Where is the $85,000 coming from to hire a security director and isn’t that Doug Trip’s job?
Remember how for many years the UO Admin said that a parking garage to improve faculty/staff parking in the campus area did NOT pencil out — that parking fees would have to be raised substantially from the then $180 to $200/year or so to cover the costs. But they doubled the parking fees anyway to cover the Arena’s underground parking garage and the Jock Box’s reserved lot for the privileged few…