MSU
MSU has the highest on-campus parking meter rates in the Big Ten, but ASMSU hopes to change that.
Student Assembly members of ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, voted Thursday to advocate for lower parking meter rates on campus.
It costs $1.50 per hour to park at most metered parking spaces on campus - 50 cents more than the average price at Big Ten schools, and 90 cents more than the student meter rate at the University of Iowa.
"It's ridiculous that we pay more than a quarter dollar for a quarter hour," said Derek Wallbank, Communication Arts and Sciences representative for the assembly.
Wallbank introduced the idea to ASMSU after he was surprised to notice meters were cheaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, because it's in a downtown area.
Last school year at an All-University Traffic and Transportation Committee meeting, Wallbank raised the issue at but it was too late in the semester for committee members to do anything, he said.
The committee, or AUTTC, is made up of students, faculty and other representatives from the university and makes recommendations to Vice President for Finance and Operations Fred Poston.
There are two representatives from ASMSU on the committee, including Wallbank, who plans to work with the MSU police to come up with a proposal to give to the All-University Traffic and Transportation Committee.
"ASMSU hasn't proposed much to AUTTC in the last few years, so we don't have any institutional memory of how best to do it," Wallbank said.
