After select Student Association members met with the school administration Oct. 26 to discuss reviving student parking appeals with student oversight, SA needs to work on the proposal.

Chief Justice Mike Roberts, Assistant Chief Justice Jake Martin, and Legislative Affairs Director Tyler Kristopeit talked with administration to get the student court involved in the decision process for parking appeals.

Roberts hopes to begin oversight for the spring semester. However, Parking and Transit Director Claude Schuttey does not think the oversight will be put into place until next fall, since the proposal needs to be reviewed twice by attorneys before the program can start.

The only parking appeals process in place at the moment is a student talking to the parking and transit department or Schuttey.

The oversight from the student court on parking appeals came when the court became defunct with not enough justices on the bench. Then the administration took away the step where the students can appeal to the court.

Roberts is anxious to get the proposal passed to give the students more control. “Anytime where the students get oversight is a good thing,” Roberts said.

Since then new bylaws have been put into place to force the president to appoint a justice by deadline or the Senate gets to make the appointment.

The tentative proposal involves three steps. The first step has the student talk with the Parking and Transit office. Then the student can appeal the decision to the student court. If the student is still unsatisfied, the student can appeal to the committee including the Chief Justice, Schuttey and a supervisor from Parking and Transit.

In the previous process, the student court was the third step. Very few parking appeals reached the student court in that process. SA wants to give the students more input in the parking appeals.

The parking appeals only involve the university issued tickets, not the City of Milwaukee issued tickets.

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