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Inside Higher Parking

You might have heard of Inside Higher Ed, the daily news publication covering colleges and universities. It’s not the kind of place one visits to learn about parking. But last week, that’s exactly the topic it covered. San Diego Mesa College, part of the San Diego Community College District, came Read More »

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Life Lessons and the Housekeeper

By Shawn Conrad, CAE I was out walking during a recent trip when I passed a car that carried on its door panel the logo, “It’s in the Details.” As the women inside exited the car, I noticed that they were housekeepers unloading their cleaning supplies and vacuum cleaner. I Read More »

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What We Do

By Irma Henderson, CAPP Parking professionals often have difficulties explaining what we do to people on the outside. As it is, my family and friends have given up on trying to understand what I do for a living. Last year, I was waiting for a flight and a gentleman approached Read More »

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APO Building Blocks for a Lasting Standard: Integrity (Part III)

By Casey Jones, CAPP According to a paper written for the American Journal of Public Health in 1965, “Medical quackery and the promotions of nostrums and worthless drugs were among the most prominent abuses which led to the establishment of formal self-regulation in business and, in turn, to the creation Read More »

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Speak Your Heart Out

By Daniel Bliley The IPI Conference & Expo features more than 3,000 people from more than 35 different countries. It’s the world’s biggest parking show. The red carpet, premier show. The best and brightest. It’s the one event you can’t afford to miss–and it needs you. The open call for Read More »

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Disabled? Prove It.

Police in Foxborough, Mass., aren’t fooling around when it comes to parking for the disabled this football season: Use a parking placard while attending a Patriots’ game and you’d better be able to prove it’s legit. Officers assigned to Gillette Stadium are spot-checking cars parked in spaces reserved for the Read More »

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Long-Term Success and Short-Term Challenges

By Cindy Campbell I was recently talking with a university parking program manager about the challenge of balancing priorities at work. “There’s just so much to do and it seems like there’s never enough time to get it all done,” she said. We talked about competing priorities in the workplace Read More »

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We May Have a Fraud Issue. Now What?

By Vicki Pero, SPHR When the term “audit” is used in the parking industry, it covers three functional areas: loss prevention, fraud investigation, and location (internal) audit. The fraud investigation component sometimes presents a challenge because many organizations don’t have a documented process defining roles and responsibilities. Establishing a process Read More »

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Meet the APO: ParkHouston

By Maria Irshad, CAPP, MPA By now, you’ve either heard or read about APO. It’s a tremendous step forward for the parking industry. It’s also a significant task to undertake as an organization. In 2014, the parking pioneers who developed the original APO framework reached out us to see if Read More »

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Enforcement and Reputation Management

By Larry J. Cohen, CAPP My parking authority has been approved to take over parking enforcement starting in the new year. “Congratulations or I’m sorry are in order….” For most of us, community complaints revolve around either ticketing too much or not enough. So what is one of our biggest Read More »

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Doing Well, Doing Good

Settling old parking citations while doing good in the community: Sounds like a win-win to us. That’s exactly what’s happening in Salt Lake City, Utah, where an innovative 90-day parking amnesty program just kicked off. Drivers who’ve not paid parking citations issued since July 2014 can earn up to 60 Read More »

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If You See Something, Say Something

By Michelle W. Jones, CMP We’ve grown accustomed to this mantra, usually in regard to potential terrorism activity. We know to alert authorities if we see an abandoned bag in the airport or if we someone with contraband on an airplane. But there is another matter–one much more prevalent than Read More »