This way, with the boot applied, the vehicle will not leave campus. Therefore, the student will not have to leave campus to pick up his vehicle at a towing company. If a student finds that his or her car has a boot on it, he or she must call Public Safety to have it removed. There will be a notice put on the driver s window with a phone number for campus security. Public Safety will be available 24 hours a day to remove the boots.
Students can pay the bill in any of three ways.
The fee can be directly billed to a student account, the student can pay with cash, or he or she can use his or her Wildcard. The ability to pay by Wildcard is seen by Public Safety as another advantage of the new program. The boot program will not create more parking spaces because the car will remain in the space, as opposed to if the car was towed off campus. Towing will still be used by Public Safety as a last resort, or if the vehicle is impeding traffic. This program is intended to benefit the students, said Horton.