By: Disgusted by the OSU Administration

Disgusted by the OSU Administration
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 21:01:20 +0000

Though we should welcome any Lantern report on the parking deal, especially one that actually checks up on how poorly OSU is faring, this article would have been more informative if it had included two additional things. First, for each permit type mentioned, what has been the average annual increase in the past 4 years? For faculty (A) permits, it is easy to compute from the reported figures that the annual increase has been almost exactly 5.5%. This might be because faculty would quickly have noticed anything above 5.5% and some of them would have raised hell about it (as they should). Second, for passes that have increased at a rate above 5.5% (e.g., "Increases in garage rates tallied between 5.9 and 8.7 percent except for the rate for the first 30 minutes."), perhaps the Lantern could interview whoever gave the required "university approval" for increases above 5.5% and ask them to explain why they approved it. Maybe OSU CFO Geoff Chatas, who momentarily left OSU last year to take a position at QIC only to find the grass greener at OSU about a day later, and who received a huge bonus for returning?