Spring Break
Group postpones bicycle
Committee searches for ways to fund program without student user fees
By: Steve Humeniuk
Issue date: 3/25/09 Section: News
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"Transportation Services is still looking to go forward with some kind of bike program, but they are going to wait until implementing a program at this time until the get more student feedback," said Logan Nichols, chairman for student services of the Student Senate, TSAC member and junior agricultural economics major.
The committee discussed ways to fund the program without implementing student user fees.
"TSAC understood concerns about charging students for the initial creation of a bicycle program and that alternative revenue sources should be utilized to fund the inception of the program," said Hunter Bollman, student advocate for student services in the Student Government Association, TSAC member and a junior accounting and finance major.
The committee credit the quality of the student feedback received for the delay in implementing the registration program and the ensuing fees.
"[Bollman and Nichols] felt like right now there would be a lot of opposition to the fee and the whole committee agreed that something else needed to be done," said Rod Weis, executive director of Transportation Services.
The decision to table the drafted proposal until further student feedback could be gathered was important to the overall process, Bollman said.
"I thought it was a great step on Transportation Service's behalf to listen to the student body and decide to get more feedback from various student representative groups about this important campus-wide issue before making a final decision," Bollman said.
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