Issue Briefs: Parking: Parking Fee Options

Resolution through Collective Bargaining

1. To achieve a systemwide resolution, CSU could use the “reopener” process to renegotiate the current systemwide contracts to reestablish the historical practice requiring CFA and CSEA employees to pay parking fees established by the campuses subject to the traditional 30-day notice requirement and “meet and confer” provisions.
   
   
2. Absent a systemwide resolution, CSU could use the “reopener” process to enable individual campuses and local union representatives to negotiate local parking fee increases for the duration of the current contracts.
   
   
3. After the current contracts expire, the CSU could negotiate future, systemwide labor agreements with provisions that require all represented employees parking in CSU facilities to pay the parking fees established through the campus fee-setting process subject to the traditional 30-day notice requirement and “meet and confer” provisions.

Charging Premium Fees for New Facilities

If collective bargaining remedies cannot be obtained, campuses that raise parking fees to construct new facilities could limit their use to members of the campus community paying the higher fees.

Increasing Parking Rates and Accepting Differential Payments from Different Segments of the User Community

Faced with the need to increase fees to cover higher operating costs and/or fund the construction of needed capacity, campuses could continue to increase parking rates for certain segments of the campus community, while leaving them unchanged for others.

Sponsoring Legislation

In order to establish equitable parking fees for all segments of campus communities, the CSU could pursue legislation to remove parking fees as a bargainable issue. This would mean that parking fees would be treated in a manner similar to rents for university housing, another self-supporting, campus-supplied service which is already excluded from bargaining.