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MUSC student, employee parking update Student Parking The Office of Parking Management (OPM) worked with CCIT and SGA to create an online parking registration system for students for the annual  registration process. The effort was unsuccessful, and student parking registration was held at the Harper Student Center. A final day of student parking registration will begin at 6 a.m. at the Harper Student Center on May 23.  Students may line up in the gym on May 22. OPM  will continue  development of a software program to support student online registration in 2006.  Ashley-Rutledge Patient and Visitor Parking Garage Scheduled for completion in early June, the Ashley-Rutledge parking garage will serve patients and visitors to Rutledge Tower, Children's Hospital, Storm Eye Institute and the Medical Center. Also, the after-hours employee parking program will  relocate from the President Street employee garage (PGII) to the new facility. The after-hours employee parking program serves employee work hours between 4:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday and 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Parking in this program is free, but there is an annual registration of $20 for employees not  registered elsewhere in the parking system. Rutledge Avenue Employee Parking Garage When the Ashley-Rutledge garage opens, all patients parking in the Rutledge Tower garage will transfer to the new facility, and the Rutledge Tower garage will become an employee facility. OPM will make several hundred new employee assignments there from an assignment list created through an open-enrollment process during the month of April. Any MUSC employee, faculty or staff member can participate, and approximately 1,800 employees have done so. The last day to submit a request is April 30. For instructions visit http://www.musc.edu/parking.   Assignments to the Rutledge Avenue employee garage will no longer be work-site based, but special consideration in the assignment process will be given to employees on the existing work-site based Rutledge Tower waiting list. Employees on the existing list must submit a letter from the appropriate administrator to OPM verifying Rutledge Tower as their home base.    After the deadline, employees on the enrollment list will be organized by hire date. Employees can find   their position number on the list after May 15 by  following the instructions found on the Web site regarding the  list for the Rutledge Avenue employee garage.    There will be a period for OPM to review and answer questions from employees arising from the announcement of the  list standings. OPM expects to begin calling employees  in June, with parking in the Rutledge Avenue employee garage expected to begin in July. Rate Increase Effective July 1 The next increment of the rate increase schedule approved by the MUSC Board of Trustees in 2002 will resume on July 1. Scheduled increases postponed for the last two years must resume in order to meet  operating, repair, and maintenance obligations and  its debt service requirements for new parking facilities. The rate for on-campus reserved parking will increase to $55 per month. Off-campus reserved parking will increase  to $30 month. Free parking will still be available in the Hagood commuter parking system. Meducare Moving to President Street Garage Any displacement caused by the construction on the roof of the President Street garage for the new Meducare helipad should be accommodated by the move of many employee spaces to the Rutledge Avenue garage. Thirty-five spaces will be permanently lost once construction is complete on the roof, but the loss of these spaces will be ameliorated as a result of hundreds of new spaces created due to the opening of the new Ashley-Rutledge garage and the dedication of the Rutledge Avenue garage to employee service. September Annual Registration Employees who park in areas requiring annual permits or decals, like the Hagood Park & Ride lot, must renew their permits and decals during the month of September. Notifications will be sent in the coming months. Only those who have annually-expiring decals or permits must re-register.   The biggest challenge for OPM for the past two to three years was the construction projects on campus. More than 700 parking spaces were lost. Once construction is finished and with the opening of an additional 1,500-space garage on Courtenay Drive and Bee Street as part of the new hospital, OPM hopes to recover from these losses and even improve upon parking on and off the MUSC campus.     Friday, April 29, 2005 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.