“If you’ve got an outstanding parking ticket you’d like to get rid of, UA parking services Food for Fines program is just for you. For every food item you donate, you get a $5 credit. There’s a $25 maximum. It’s great that parking services care so much for the hungry, and that they are utilizing parking tickets to generate donations for a local food bank.”
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If you’ve got an outstanding parking ticket you’d like to get rid of, UA parking services Food for Fines program is just for you.

For every food item you donate, you get a $5 credit.

There’s a $25 maximum.

It’s great that parking services care so much for the hungry, and that they are utilizing parking tickets to generate donations for a local food bank.

However, if they really, really cared about generating donations, they wouldn’t have a maximum amount of credits.

Really, they are limiting their drive to only five food items, per person, per semester.

The better way to generate donations, and lots of donations, would be to allow you to pay off an unlimited number of parking tickets with food items.

For instance, with 10 items you pay off one ticket. Ten more items and you pay off a second ticket.

Really, generating more cans for the food bank is more important than generating revenue for parking services.

We won’t even get into the fact that $25 is a bit too much for a parking ticket.

Then again, we hate not being able to find parking spots, and it gets us going even more to think that some of those cars in those full parking lots shouldn’t be there.

But we’d forgive parking violations 70 times seven if it means generating donations for the food bank.

We just hope UA parking services begins to feel the same way.

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