Strategies+employed

Parking Policy Project Strategies Employed A)   Our group addressed the parking policy issue by first becoming an expert with our issue. We found out how long the parking problem has existed, what its effects are, whom it affects the most, other related problems, what people are doing about the problem, and what proposals there were for taking care of the problem. Once we had obtained background knowledge, we went down to the office to talk with Mrs. Barba and Mrs. Anderson who are the administrators of senior parking. We discovered that this year parking was run first come first serve unless a student had a discipline problem, in which he/she was withdrawn from the opportunity to park in the senior lot for two months until they could prove themselves. Currently, there are only 180 spaces in the senior lot and the system is organized based on license plate numbers. We ran our new proposal, which was to assign everyone spots but not specific spot numbers, to both Mrs. Barba and Anderson and they agreed that they thought it was a good idea. We also talked to Butch the janitor about another one of our proposals which was to add spaces in the senior lot where there seems to be an unnecessary grass area. We learned that this was not in fact unecessary grass area, but it was declared by the DEM as runoff area for the pond adjacent to the lot. After weighing our other solutions to the problem, we decided that our first method, with no assigned spot numbers, was the best. B)   Finding out information from Mrs. Barba and Anderson was a success, and so was their support towards our solution. Our idea about parking in the grass area was a failure, but at least we explored our idea and learned from it. If we were to do this project again, we would not do much differently. If we had more time, and if we were not seniors and leaving this spring, perhaps we could have fulfilled our project and implemented it next year. As for now, we are leaving our project on the wiki for future classes to continue.