UAA’s parking permit prices increase

Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services Ryan Bucholdt sent a document on July 30 to UAA faculty and students that wrote, “I have approved a series of roughly 10% UAA parking permit price increases effective fall 2025. This includes ending the early bird discount.”

Parking Services receives funding through earned revenue rather than general funds. Parking Services handles all campus snow removal, annual garage debt, maintenance of parking lots, parking enforcement, the Seawolf Shuttle and U-PASS, according to the document.

Bucholdt then listed the annual cost for each service. Snow removal can cost up to $800,000 while debt for the East Parking Garage totals at $777,000.

Bucholdt wrote that during COVID-19 and the following years, the organization accumulated a debt of approximately $5 million due to a lack of revenue earnings.

Bucholdt wrote, “We cannot continue to carry a massive parking deficit. Additionally, the board is requiring this auxiliary’s fund balance return to the positive within 5-7 years.”

Bucholdt wrote that to lower financial impact, Parking Services partnered with UA Payroll so students and faculty may pay their fees incrementally on pre-tax payroll deductions from 12 pay periods to 16.

Students can now purchase standard semester parking passes for $198.