Professional Staff Organization

February 11, 2022

Public hearing on parking rate increase and universal UPASS

Transportation Services (TS) is hosting a public forum with the Seattle campus community on a proposal to update the department’s funding model to better support long-term sustainability. The main recommendations of the proposal include:

    • Increase parking fees by 4% in FY23, FY24, FY25 and FY26
    • Provide fully subsidized U-PASS to Faculty and Professional staff
    • Reduce U-PASS and shuttle funding’s dependence on parking revenue
    • Increase deferred maintenance and strategic initiative spending

You can read more details on the proposal and the rationale behind it on the public hearing information site. TS is holding an online public hearing about these changes on Tuesday, February 22, 12 – 1pm.

This meeting will be held via Zoom at https://washington.zoom.us/j/93302900319

  • Meeting ID: 933 0290 0319
  • Dial in option: 206-337-9723 or 253-215-8782

You can also send feedback via email on later than Tuesday, February 22 via tsfeedback@uw.edu. You can read PSO’s summited comments in this blog post. PSO urges professional staff to attend or send emails to share their perspectives on this proposal.