Issue Briefs: Parking: User Fee Inequities/Cost Shifting
After decentralization of parking in1995 and up until the current
union contracts took effect, parking fee adjustments were determined
by the campuses, with all groups of users paying the same rates.
The current contracts for California Faculty Association (CFA) employees
and California State Employees Association (CSEA) employees, however,
impose restrictions on fee increases for their members.
If a campus raises parking fees for certain users and not others,
then the responsibility for the added portion of the cost is shifted
from the group(s) paying the lower fees to those paying the higher
fees. Specifically, some of the increased costs that would have
been paid by CFA and CSEA members are shifted away from them and
added on to users paying the higher fees—the largest group
of which is students.
Below is a chart estimating the amount of this “cost shifting.”
It shows that through FY2004/05 CFA and CSEA may avoid paying approximately
$6.7M of their share of parking costs.
Cost Shifting Estimate 1
| Campus |
FY 2001/02 |
FY 2002/03 |
FY 2003/04 |
FY 2004/05 |
Cumulative |
| Channel Islands |
$0 |
$0 |
$1,070 |
$2,613 |
$3,683 |
| Fresno |
$54,030 |
$56,191 |
$58,439 |
$60,776 |
$229,436 |
| Fullerton |
$0 |
$224,606 |
$233,590 |
$485,867 |
$944,063 |
| Humboldt |
$0 |
$0 |
$32,723 |
$44,671 |
$77,394 |
| Los Angeles |
$0 |
$66,842 |
$69,515 |
$72,296 |
$208,653 |
| Northridge |
$0 |
$342,782 |
$356,493 |
$370,752 |
$1,070,027 |
| Pomona |
$0 |
$106,517 |
$221,555 |
$345,626 |
$673,697 |
| Sacramento |
$0 |
$110,124 |
$229,057 |
$238,219 |
$577,400 |
| San Bernardino |
$0 |
$0 |
$170,029 |
$176,830 |
$346,859 |
| San Diego |
$33,437 |
$34,774 |
$36,165 |
$37,612 |
$141,988 |
| San José |
$0 |
$167,660 |
$394,951 |
$587,709 |
$1,150,320 |
| San Luis Obispo |
$54,854 |
$114,097 |
$177,991 |
$267,381 |
$614,323 |
- Future fee increases are estimates provided by campus parking directors—they may not have been approved through the campus fee advisory processes as of December 2002, when this chart was prepared.
- Represented employee headcounts were based on fall 2001 data.
- Calculation assumes 4%/year increase in CFA- and CSEA- represented employees.
- Permit purchasing assumptions: 65% of fulltime faculty purchase yearly parking permits; 30% purchase AY permits; 5% do not purchase any permit; 50% of part-time faculty purchase AY permits; 95% of CSEA-represented employees purchase yearly parking permits; 5% of CSEA-represented employees do not purchase any permit.
- For computational purposes no increase in CFA/CSEA parking fees were assumed through FY2004/2005.