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Employee parking rates to increase July 1 Back in 2003 and 2004 the MUSC administration could have, but didn’t. Now they will.   After delaying parking rate increases for the past two years, rates will raise $5 per month.   That’s from $50 to $55 for on-campus reserved parking and from $25 to $30 for off-campus reserved (Harborview Tower garage and the Lockwood Drive parking lot).   “The last increase in parking rates was July 1, 2002,” said Parking Management director Melinda Anderson. “Increases were authorized for 2003 and 2004, but were deferred out of concern for other impacts on employee paychecks. Unfortunately, for the parking system to be able to meet its debt service requirements, the scheduled rate increase plan must resume.”   The new rates will go into effect July 1.   Parking Management has been busy, both with recently completed parking projects and with projects still on the drawing boards or now under way. Anderson notes that improvements in the parking system, those under way and those in the planning stages are made possible by rate increases.   In the recently completed column are: Student parking lot BB on Lockwood Blvd., 100 spaces Student parking on lot AA at Harborview Tower, 35 spaces Addition to the Hagood park-and-ride system, 175 spaces on Hagood Avenue and Line Street for employees and students Purchase of the Courtney Drive garage (former county garage) 1,600-space employee and patient parking Ashley-Rutledge garage (Charleston High School site) 640-space patient and visitor garage (planned opening in early to mid-June) Ten new buses purchased to replace aging transit equipment. Parking projects in the planning stages are: Lighting upgrades for Harborview Tower garage and the Rutledge Avenue employee garage (former Rutledge Tower patient/visitor and employee garage) and Jonathan Lucas Street patient/visitor garage.  All under design. Work to begin later this year. Upgrade of elevators in the Harborview Tower employee garage; President Street employee garage; and the Jonathan Lucas Street patient/visitor garage.  Authorization to proceed was issued for the Harborview Tower garage upgrade. The Jonathan Lucas Street and President Street garage elevator upgrades are planned for later this year. Renovation of the Rutledge Tower handicap parking lot. This project will include landscaping, sealcoating and restripping of the parking lot, and construction of a covered walkway linking the Ashley-Rutledge garage to Rutledge Tower. Work is scheduled to begin shortly. Friday, May 27, 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.