DRAFT OMB CIRCULAR ON EMPLOYEE PARKING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00988R000600060048-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 20, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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20 April 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Chief, NFAC Administrative Staff
Chief, Requirements and Evaluation Staff
SUBJECT : Draft 0MB Circular on Employee Parking
Introduction
1. Reviewing the subject draft circular, I perceive a
glaring omission in the logic of the cost-benefit analysis of
charging federal employees for parking. My comments, which
I request you forward to the DDA, are especially applicable
to situations such as at CIA headquarters where the general
public does not compete for parking, and where the only
stated reason for charging employees is to encourage car
pools and greater use of. public transportation.
Discussion
2. While the 0MB circular is replete with comments that
car pooling and mass-transportation use increase whenever
employees are forced to pay for parking, it is remarkable that
no mention is made concerning the loss to the government owing
to the regularization of work hours, a time-clock syndrome if
you will, which naturally follows dependence on strictly sched-
uled transportation. According to my observations, individuals
who participate in car pools or ride the bus almost invariably
adhere to a strict eight-hour day and are rarely at work on
weekends. The number of unpaid, professional overtime hours
lost as a result are considerable. If the suggested policies
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on parking are implemented, there will be great losses of pro-
ductivity. These costs come out of the taxpayers' pockets
just as do the parking subsidies; moreover, productivity loss
is extremely more costly, not only in terms of dollars, but in
our case, also in terms of national security.
Recommendation
- 3. I believe that some scheme must be devised for main-
taining present productivity without undermining the President's
energy-conservation program. Agency regulations
state that CIA employees of grades GS-12 through GS--14 are ex-
pected to contribute the first eight hours of overtime they
work each week. Employees of GS-15 and above are normally ex-
pected to contribute all overtime. I propose that employees
in these categories (and others who do not receive direct com-
pensation for overtime) should be given credit at the rate of,
say, one dollar for each overtime hour up to a maximum monthly
amount equal to the parking fee. While defraying the monthly
cost of parking, an incentive will be provided for maintaining
the productivity of those who have voluntarily donated their
time for the good of the Agency and thus the nation.
4. A mechanism already exists to maintain an accounting;,_
of this overtime under the compensatory category.. Thus, with
little or no added administrative cost, a means exists for
equitably countering the trend toward lower productivity that
necessarily will accompany a bureaucratic imposition of con-
straints on individual transportation.
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