'CUT IN BENEFITS' PARKING FEES IRK MOST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000600050070-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 70
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'CUT IN BENEF'ITS'
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WASHINGTON -- President
parking in government lots hit
fumes. When the smoke cleared
they indicated they were sick
about it. _
Naval Air Rework Facility in Nor-
folk, Va., for example, filed forms
to stop their savings bond aliot-
ments and their contributions to
the local Combined Federal Cam-
paign.
The American Federation of
Government Employees and
several smaller federal worker
unions issued statements de-
nouncing the parking plan.
"We must strenuously object to
the President's decision to once
again hoist federal workers up a
flagpole as `symbols' of his com-
mitment," said AFGE president
Kenneth Y. Blaylock.
'We helj 'i feda;al avnrltPr?
prices for fuel, the continued rav-
ages of inflation while their justi
fied pay raises are muffled at 5.5
percent," Blaylock said.
At the Pentagon, where the
monthly parking rate is expected
to go up to $19 a month in the next
two years, loss of free parking
seemed to dominate conversation.
"Oh. yeah, everybody's talking
about it," said Air Force SMSgt.
George Craig. "It's viewed as
another cut in benefits."
Craig and another member of
his car pool, SAISgt. Wayne Gil-
son, said it won't change their
driving habits.
"I can't stop driving," Gilson
said, "I have two jobs. I think any-
one here who moonlights would
have the same problem."
"The thing that bothers nme,"
said Col. David Glanzer, "is that
most people are not here (at the
Pentagon) by their own choice.
We take free parking for granted.
Ft's rot thoueht of as part of our
will suffer multiple problems of pay."
added commuter costs, higher "I don't see any purpose to it,".
said an Army private who asked
not to be identified. "To many
low-ranking families, $19 a month
is a lot to pay," she said. "Every-
one I've talked to thinks (the fee)
is stupid."
Air Force Capt. John Vloet said
the fee looks like more chipping
away at military benefits. "It's
another way of keeping the pay
raise down," he said. But, he con-
ceded the $19 fee sounds
reasonable. "I don't believe it
would keep anyone from wanting
a job at the Pentagon."
An Army sergeant said he will
continue to drive to work despite
the parking fee. "Taking a bus,"
he said, "I'd need a half hour
more getting to work and another
getting home. It's not worth it."
An Army officer said it was not
fair to ask his opinion of the park-
ing fee since he was on temporary
duty from an assignment in San
Antonio.
"But," he said, walking away,
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