Every quarter students have to pay for a parking pass in order to park on campus. These parking passes have to be purchased at the Enrollment Services and cashier’s office. The students have a week to purchase the pass before parking tickets are given out.

But what happens when the Enrollment Services and cashier’s office is full of other students trying to do the same thing?

During the first week of school, the Enrollment Services and cashier’s office are busy with students paying for their parking passes, fees and finalizing their schedules.

Enrollment Services and the cashiers use a ticket system that they call the “Qflow” which helps organize what the students are there for. The Qflow also helps keep track of how many tickets were pulled for each category.

According to Director of Admissions Ariana Stafford during the first week of winter quarter, the cashier’s office sold over 1,600 parking tickets. Most of those passes were sold between Monday and Thursday, with the total being 1,524 tickets and only 167 on Friday.

If you’re someone who doesn’t have time to wait in line, there is always the option of buying a parking pass before the quarter begins. There were 772 parking passes sold the week leading up to the first day of winter quarter. The most in one day being 206 parking passes sold.

As a way to accommodate the amount of people buying parking passes, EvCC is creating a new way to buy parking passes online. This new system, which is scheduled to start summer quarter, should help lessen the wait time in the Enrollment Services and Cashier’s Office.

During summer quarter students, faculty and staff will be able to test out the online parking passes which will help EvCC make adjustments for fall quarter when there will be more students.

According to Patrick Sisneros, EvCC’s Vice President of College Services, EvCC is working with Rydin, the same company that already provides the parking permits.

Students, faculty and staff will soon be able to go to the EvCC’s website and purchase a parking pass online and print a temporary pass while their official pass gets mailed to their home.

“The idea is to get more people to pay online”, said Sisneros, as students already have to pay for other expenses such as tuition and ordering textbooks.

With the parking passes turning more digital, the prices for the parking passes will go up an extra $4.25 since that is what Rydin charges EvCC per pass.

EvCC also recognizes that some people will not have access to purchasing their parking passes online so there will still be the option of purchasing a parking pass from the cashier’s office.

According to Sisneros, with more students paying for parking passes online, “it just makes the first week less stressful.”

*Please note: edits have been made as of 2/22/17 at 8:16 p.m.