ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 TAG: 9608270147
SECTION: WELCOME STUDENTS PAGE: 22 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Issued 52,058 tickets.
Collected $767,000 for sales of parking permits.
Collected $195,000 late fees.
Collected $493,000 for parking fines.
Collected $47,000 from parking meters.
By law, money collected for parking tickets has to go back into parking maintenance and cannot be used for anything else. In the past five years, parking services has spent nearly $5 million on parking maintenance, including paving the "B" lot behind Cowgill and Whittemore halls, said Curtis Lynch, parking services manager. The university also has increased the number of parking spaces from 9,878 in 1989 to about 13,000.
*Between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 1995
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