FEDERAL PAID-PARKING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000600040093-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: February 7, 1980
• Content Type: MF

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? 7 FEB 7980
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: James H. McDonald
Director of Logistics
SUBJECT: Federal Paid-Parking Program
1. In 1979, the Agency initiated a Paid-Parking Program
in compliance with the provisions of 0MB Circular A-118
and subsequent GSA implementing instructions. Because
the GSA rate assessment for parking spaces at Headquarters
was below $10.00 per space, the Headquarters compound was
exempt from this program for the first year. However, on
1 July of each year, GSA furnishes Federal agencies with
a new listing of monthly parking charges for the next fiscal
year. Based upon a dramatic increase in Standard Level
User Charges (SLUC) for FY-1981 (from 22 cents to 46 cents
per square foot, outside parking and from 38 cents to 63 cents
per square foot, inside parking), it seems a virtual certainty
that the Headquarters compound will come under the auspices
of the Federal Paid-Parking Program on 1 October 1980. Paid
parking has already proven to be a sensitive and emotional
issue for many of our employees. Expansion of the program
to include the Headquarters compound will, no doubt, rekindle
emotions and stimulate questions, both old and new, from many
different forums. Provided below area summary of the ques-
tions most often asked, the current management position
regarding these questions, and the rationale supporting
that position.
a. What is the purpose of the Paid-Parking Program?
The intent of the Federal Paid-Parking Program
is to conserve energy and to reduce air pollution. and
traffic congestion by encouraging Federal employees
to join carpools and increase their use of public
transportation. The program has never been intended
as a revenue device.
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b. Who determines rates for parking and decides
which facilities will be affected?
Most agency facilities are GSA-controlled, and GSA
is responsible for determining rates for these installa-
tions. Each year, on 1 July, GSA provides Federal
agencies with a printout listing the monthly parking
charge for the next year for those facilities where
the rate exceeds $10.00 per month. For the period
from 1 November 1979 through 30 September 1981, the
charges to be collected shall be 50 percent of the full
rate but not less than $10.00 per month. The full rate
will be collected beginning 1 October 1981. Facilities
where the full assessment is less than $10.00 per month
are exempt from the Paid-Parking Program. Also exempt
are shared facilities where a Government agency occupies
a portion of a privately-owned facility and specific
parking areas are not assigned to individual employers.
GSA currently recognizes the Westgate complex as a
shared facility.
c. Because rate assessments vary according to
physical location, many Agency employees are charged
high. monthly parking fees while others, by virtue of
their assignment, pay no fees at all. Why can't all
employees be charged a standard fee and share equally
in meeting the paid-parking assessments of this Agency?
The situation where employees are charged parking
fees by virtue of their work location is not unique
to the initiation of the Federal Paid-Parking Program.
Agency personnel assigned to the Rosslyn area and other
commercial locations have paid parking fees for many
years. GSA is quite clear in their guidance that
Federal agencies are not permitted to subsidize parking
fees by averaging costs amongst their employees. To
do so would negatively impact on the very intent of
the Paid-Parking Program; i.e., to encourage carpools
and maximize use of public transportation.
d. If paid parking is initiated on the Headquarters
compound, will a standard fee be established or will a
higher fee be established for those spaces closer to
the building than for those in the West parking lot?
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The only differentiation in rates established by
GSA will be that between inside and outside parking.
Rates will undoubtedly be higher for inside or garage
parking. Minimum rates for parking are established
by GSA, and we do not have the luxury of charging a
lower-than-minimum price for spaces in the West parking
lot and making up the cost difference by assessing
higher rates for spaces closer to the building. To
do so icould again put us in the position of subsidizing
parking for some employees. Consequently, the only
way to stagger rates would be to charge the minimum
rate for the West parking lot and less desirable spaces
and charge a higher-than-required rate for spaces closer
to the building. In effect, the additional fees col-
lected would represent a voluntary contribution to the
U. S. Treasury arising from an Agency-inflicted charge
upon those employees utilizing the closer spaces.
There is little rationale for penalizing our employees
in this manner for the sake of a staggered rate, and
we intend therefore to assess the minimum rate for all
outside parking areas. Incidentally, the Pentagon
wrestled with this same problem of staggered rates on
a much larger scale and concluded, as we have, that
one rate (the minimum) should be charged for all out-
side parking areas.
it should be noted that parking permits are cur-
rently allocated to individual offices and components
located within the Headquarters building based upon
population figures. It is then the responsibility of
those offices and components to determine the system
they wish to utilize in reallocation of these permits
to individuals. It is not anticipated that paid parking
will alter this procedure. Consequently, if these
offices and components feel that paid parking makes
it desirable to change their present allocation system,
they are fully entitled to do so.
e. On those days when an established carpool
does not operate, where do the individuals park and
are they charged for parking?
Under current procedures, personnel normally par-
ticipating in a carpool or using public transportation
may obtain a daily permit for a visitor's parking area
on the occasional day when they must drive their own
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vehicle. This same procedure is being used to
accommodate personnel who are serving on a short-
term TDY basis. These permits are available
through the component support office. Use of the
visitor parking area will be closely monitored to
ensure that this privilege is not abused.
2. The Paid-Parking Program as it currently exists
within the Agency is being handled on a manual basis, with
each affected facility handling the collection of fees in
a manner best suited to meet the peculiarities of their
particular situation. Inclusion of the Headquarters com-
pound in this program will magnify, many times over, the
administrative burden of collecting fees and will project
much more vividly the inherent weaknesses in the existing
manual system. The Office of Finance has submitted a work
order to the Office of Data Processing to explore ways of
computerizing this program. Computerization offers the only
viable approach for the effective management of this program,
and managerial emphasis is needed to initiate its develop-
ment. To that end, we plan to meet shortly with represen-
tatives of the Office of Finance to jointly develop a plan
for the management of the Paid-Parking Program.
cc: OF/AD/P1P
Distribution:
Orig - Adsee
mil" - OL/P&PS Official
1 - OL/LSD
1 - AEO/OL
1 - D/L Chrono
1 - EO/OL Chrono
1 - OL/SAB
AEO/OL: (4 Feb 80)
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