TPAC is having its first meeting of 2002 at 3:30 p.m. today at the Department of Public Safety Emergency Operations Center.
The committee's agenda for the meeting focuses on the University's financial status. The committee will receive an update on a court ruling that could force UNC to revert parking ticket revenue to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools if the ruling is upheld by the appellate court. The meeting also will cover financial information about the 2002 parking budget, fund balance and debt projections.
Associate Vice Chancellor Carolyn Elfland said the committee will specifically look at financial issues that will arise out of the University's Development Plan during the next eight years.
Members also will discuss the results of the Office of Institutional Research's final survey on parking and then conclude with an evaluation of a meeting calendar proposed by Chairman Bob Knight.
The committee does not plan on addressing at today's meeting the recent controversial proposals of charging for night parking and eliminating on-campus parking for students in residence halls. Knight said issues of such great concern to the student body require a meeting all their own.
Knight's goal for this meeting and future meetings include improving communication among committee members and the student body.
To accomplish this goal, members of the committee plan to organize campuswide forums to discuss these issues and get input from all members of campus, Elfland said.
Both she and Knight said the committee's goal is to get all the information on the parking issue out and available to the entire campus before deliberation begins.
"As chairperson, the most that I hope we accomplish is that we have a very broad and deep discussion and really come to a consensus," Knight said.
