Future rates are uncertain. It will appear on their T-4 slips. The tax will be owed by the person in whose name the stall is registered. The new fees may be sufficient to pay off a mortgage on a new parkade, which the University would own. The Faculty Association wants all its members to have access to a parking stall within a reasonable distance from their building.
Some people walk as much as half a mile from their parking lot to their building.
The Faculty Association also maintains that the current parking fees are fair and reasonable. The current fees cover all the costs of constructing, maintaining, and operating parking lots on campus. A raise in fees would simply be a cut in pay. On behalf of the Parking Action Committee that the Executive take the necessary steps to encourage all members affected by the assessment to file notice of objection through the Faculty Association. Mr. Curtis Stewart of MacPherson Leslie Tyerman has been retained as counsel by the Faculty Association to assist members in filing the necessary papers and to challenge the parking tax.