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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
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