VIII.3 PARKING

Contact Assistant Dean Christopher Bruhn or Lil Larson (5-4312 or lmlarson@ls.admin.wisc.edu) with any questions concerning parking.

All L&S faculty and staff who wish to apply for parking during the 2006-07 academic year should contact Chris Bruhn at 3-0300 to obtain entry to the Parking Application System. Parking applications are submitted through the Transportation Services web site. A My UW net ID is required to apply. This ID can be obtained at the following website: https://www.mynetid.wisc.edu/activate. With that information, faculty and staff may initially apply for parking and edit their personal information (vehicles, email, etc...) throughout the year. The former paper application for parking assignments is no longer used.

Campus parking policies are established by the Parking and Transportation Board, composed of elected faculty and staff members and other members appointed by the Chancellor. Since availability of parking spaces is limited, administration of these policies is strict and complicated. Instructions and applications are sent to employees and departments in the spring for the following year (9/1-8/31). Information about Transportation Services policies and lots with available spaces can be found on the Transportation Services web site at http://www.fpm.wisc.edu/trans/. 

The College establishes a prioritized list, determined largely on the basis of age and payroll title. Special adjustments to this list may also be made in cases of a recurrent and substantial need for use of a car in connection with job responsibilities. The College priority list is then merged with other campus lists, and ultimate assignment of parking spaces is determined by the Office of Transportation Services via a computer assignment program. Please see the L&S Parking Website, located at www.ls.wisc.edu/parking. For further information, contact Chris Bruhn (3-0300) or Lil Larson (5-4312), who coordinate parking for the College.

Faculty who will be on an approved sabbatical and who wish a parking assignment upon return from leave must notify Chris Bruhn of the leave period before the leave and request that their parking assignment(s) be placed in leave status. Requests should be made in writing prior to leaving campus along with the sabbatical approval letter.  Those faculty who will be on leave for the entire year, September 1-August 31, can simply forgo applying for parking for a year with no adverse effect.

The L&S Parking Policy Review Committee, composed of L&S faculty and staff, reviews all L&S policies governing the priority list, special request criteria, interaction with the Office of Transportation Services, and dissemination of information within the College.  In 1995-96, the committee performed a comprehensive review of the priority list development process.  Its work led to a greater reliance on campus and state parking alternatives instead of on special priority list adjustments.

For more information: Parking & Transportation web site:  http://www.fpm.wisc.edu/trans/ .

Department administrators and chairs may wish also to consult the memorandum sent to department-level parking coordinators. Another memorandum sent to L&S faculty and staff provides details on the application process.

Parking Alternatives: Please note that the Parking & Transportation website also provides information about transportation alternatives (http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/trans/TDM/index.htm), including the Employee Bus Pass program, which distributes free bus passes to university employees. (For distribution times and locations, please see http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/trans/TDM/Transit.htm.)

Updated August 11, 2008