Mandatory Fee:

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Mandatory Fee Transportation Fee
Tuition and Fee Proposal Committee
Presentations For the Academic Years 2010-11 and
2011-12
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Transportation Fee
How do students benefit from this fee?

• Provides On And Off-Campus Shuttles
• Increases Parking Availability
• Reduces Traffic Congestion
• Reduces Car Trips to Campus and Supports
  Environmental Initiatives
• Provides Saturday Shopping Shuttle
• Provides VIA Bus Service Between Main And
  Downtown Campuses

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Transportation Fee
FY09 FY10 Highlights

• What did we do last year with the fee revenue and
  what if anything different or additional is
  planned for this year?
• 1,506,009 UTSA Shuttle Rides Last Year
  Projecting 1,600,000 UTSA Shuttle Rides This
  Year
• 75,000 VIA Rides
• Contribution Program for Off-Campus Apartment
  Complexes Beginning Spring 2010
• What are we doing to contain costs?
• Larger Buses
• Re-Designed Routes For Improved Efficiency
• 4-10 Driver Schedules
• Off-Campus Apartment Contribution Program

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Transportation Fee
Plans for the Future

• What changes / budget assumptions, expenditure
  changes, etc. are projected for the two years of
  the proposal (FY11 and FY12) ?
• Off-Campus Apartment Contribution
• Referendum/Initiative to Increase the
  Transportation Fee - Anticipate Request Increase
  to 30/Semester for Fall and Spring
• Additional Off Campus Routes As Revenues Allow
• Other longer term plans?
• Off Campus Routes as Revenues Allow
• Consider Building Bus Depots On The North And
  South Sides Of Main Campus

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Transportation Fee
Concerns and Challenges

• Participation in Off-Campus Apartment
  Contribution Program
• Budgetary Challenges/Program Sustainability
• Increasing Ridership - 89 Above 2006/2007 Levels
  (Over 5000 Passengers/Day)
• Need for Reserves, Equipment, Capital
  Improvements
• Three Nearby Complexes Opening In Fall Of 2010
• Requests From Existing Complexes
• VIA Likely to Increase Fees