Campus & Beyond: Navigating Travel and Transportation

Hi everybody. Welcome. Once Corey joins, we'll go ahead and get started. >> Hello. >> Great. Um well, hello everybody. Thanks for joining us this evening. Um we are um the student insight session called campus and beyond navigating travel and transportation. And um my name is Abby Bing. I am the sustainable transportation manager in the office of sustainability. And I'll let Corey introduce herself as well. >> Hi, I'm Corey Anderson. I'm the customer service supervisor here for transportation and parking services. Um Abby, am I UK? >> Yeah. this. >> Um, I'll go ahead and mute everybody, Corey. So, >> okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, so I will be monitoring the chat during Aby's portion and then I believe Abby will be monitoring the chat during my portion. Um, so feel free to pop questions in there. We will have a short Q&A session or longer if needed at the end. And also at the end, please stay on and take the survey. There will be a QR code you can scan and everyone entered will be entered into a gift certificate for the bookstore. >> Great. Well, we'll go ahead and get started. I just wanted to um have the website with all of the information that we will be reviewing today. So, if you want to jot that down, we do have QR codes throughout the presentation, but again, this website will have all of the information that we're covering. Um the topics that we'll be discussing tonight are the bus systems that um our students heavily use both the regional bus system and our onampus bus system. Um we'll be talking a lot about bikes and how we accommodate bikes on campus and also introducing you to Carshare Vermont which is a um which is a car share a local car share provider. So students that come to campus without a car or need access to a car occasionally have a really great local option. We also have a new student carpool ride share website that I'll discuss as well as the many long-distance travel options that are available to our students um to get home and get out of Burlington um for weekend trips. And then we'll wrap it up with um parking on campus, both the rules and regulations around that. So, we'll start with Green Mountain Transit buses. This is our regional bus um provider and it is the most popular way for our students, especially the first year students to get around town. Um as a student at UVM, you get access to the free to the buses for free. You don't have to pay the fair. Um, but the most important thing to know is that you do have to download the Ride Ready by GMT app in order to access the buses and it will only recognize you as a UVM student if you use your UVM net ID p um email address. So, for example, if your name is Jane Doe, it's not the Jane. UVM.edu address, but the J do23 or something like that where it's typically your first initial and then part of your last name at uvm.edu. edu and if [clears throat] there's lots of if you're John Smith, there's probably a number at the end um because there's lots. So, that's that's an important thing to do before you arrive to campus so that when you're on campus, you're all set to um take the buses. They go many places. Um you can see it on the map on the right. The University of Vermont is is um highlighted in a brownish color and >> yes, >> I have a chat participant saying that you are muted. If you can hear Abby, can you just raise your hand for me, please? >> Okay, thank you. >> Okay, >> perfect. Got it. Thank you all. We're good. >> Um, thank you. Yeah, for letting us know. Corey, do you want to chat them and see if maybe it's their speaker settings? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, okay. So the map on the right shows all of the the bus lines that are part of Green Mountain Transit that um that go in the Burlington South Burlington Wooki area which are the three jurisdictions that are right around campus. And then you can see to the left that these free bus passes that the students get will take them way beyond the Burlington area if they want to go up closer to the Canadian border to a city called St. Albins or go down to u Montilier which is our capital city and in those areas around that is all covered and part of the benefit um of being a UVM student. The onampus shuttle buses are um a lot more straightforward because they only run on campus and our campus is oriented north south so they pretty much run from one end to the next in a 15 to 30 minute loop depending on the time of day. Um the buses are really clearly marked as UVM buses and there's no need to to show a student ID. You just go ahead and hop on and hop off wherever you need to. That app I should mention actually there is an app for the ride ready app is the is the app that helps you um pay for your bus fair or show that you are a student and do not have to pay for the bus fair. The transit app is actually the app that will tell you where the bus is in real time and where you would go to meet the bus. So, there's a couple apps which is a little confusing, but the ride ready by GMT app is that is the most important app. But if you do want to see the real life um bus tracking app, you can download the transit app where our cat's bus is on an app called the UVM cats bus app. And that screenshot is actually a picture of that app. Um, but again, it will show you where the bus is in real time, but there's no ticketing system, so you can go ahead and get on and off at your convenience. Um, we are a bicycle friendly gold campus. Many, many students choose to bring a bike to campus. It's a really easy way to get around um both campus and the greater Burlington area. Burlington is a silver friendly bicycle city. Um, there's lots of infrastructure um to get folks around by bike. All of our every single building on campus is accommodated by bike parking and most of our residential halls have their own bike rooms. If you've looked at our campus map, which is just ubm.edu/map, you can see all of our bicycling facilities. So where the where the outdoor bike parking is, where the covered bike parking is, what dormitories have indoor bike rooms, um where our fixit stations are, um where showers are, you know, those are mostly helpful for commuter commuter students. Um but we do encourage students to register their bike before coming to campus. Bike theft is an issue in Burlington, like many places. Um, so we really discourage those cable locks that are really easy to snip and encourage students to either um, bring a U-lock or a chain for their bike. Um, and to get it registered in case it is lost or stolen, we can recover it. Lights are mandatory on the front and the back of the bike. A yellow light in the front and a red light on back. And we highly recommend helmets. So, if you are if your student is interested in biking or you're the student listening in and and don't have a bike but would like to have a bike on campus, we have great rental options um that I'll touch on in a minute. So, again, to properly lock your bike, we encourage you to get a U-lock or um a chain a heavy duty chain lock and really making sure a lot of the theft that happens on campus is you either cable locks or improperly parked bikes. So, making sure when you are when you are locking your bike, you're actually going through the the frame of the bike and and cable locks can really be used secondarily to secure um back tires and whatnot. We also have um a student created guide called in into the outdoors and it's a really if you're not familiar with the Burlington area, it's a really helpful guide just to orient yourself to all of the activities that are an easy biking distance of campus. Um, when we ask students why they brought cars to campus, the second most popular reason was to get into nature and get into the outdoors. So, it does focus a lot on what places you can go rock climbing and swimming and mountain biking and hiking. Um, but it also has a lot of useful things to know how to get to local grocery stores or get toarmacies or popular student spots. Um we have built um a policy around around electric micromobility devices. So this is electric scooters, ebikes, skateboards, uni wheels to try to decrease the risk of fire. Um but also acknowledge that these are becoming more and more popular. So if you you as a student or if your student is planning on bringing one of these devices to campus um it is required to be registered and in order to register your device you go through a 10-minute training and then you certify the device is UL certified which is a third party um electrical certification um saying that the components of the device are are wellmade. So devices are strictly prohibited in residential buildings. They are not allowed to be stored or charged in residential buildings. We do have outdoor storage and charging for these devices. It is on the campus map. Um but the most important thing is to make sure your device is UL certified and it is registered before you bring it to campus. Um so we spoke a little about bit about busing and biking but it's also worth pointing out is we are very walkable campus. Um that is the number one way students get around and to campus is by walking. Um so this is just a little diagram to show you um the the yellow area is a a half mile radius. So about a 10-minute walk and it's based from our student center what 10 minutes away would be like and somearmacies and popular destinations. And then the the onem radius which is the green line which easily gets you downtown within a mile and takes about 20 minutes. And it also takes you to the University Mall which is another popular student area. So very easy to walk across campus and into the neighboring towns. Um if this isn't your first student insight session, you've probably been told about the UVM Catsafe app. Um it's an important resource for students and there is a feature that we like to point out in this session called safe walk. So if your student is ever walking alone and wants to sort of virtually walk with somebody, there's a there's a feature on that app where you can invite someone to watch me walk um and that person will see them on a map um and we'll notify them when they make it safely to their destination. So, I mentioned that we do um rent bikes on campus. This is a really um great option for students who either don't have a bike or can't bring their bike to campus. Um we have a studentrun bike co-op that functions a lot like a bike shop right here on campus. They do $25 semester rentals um for students that come with helmets and locks and lights and everything you need to safely bike on campus. They also, if you have a bike, they offer free tuneups or lowcost tune-ups. They really only charge for the parts. They also will teach your student if your student or if you are a student and are interested in learning how to fix your bike, they will teach you how to fix your bike. Um, in addition, they sell lowcost helmets and locks and that is located at the Booth House, which is just behind the Waterman building, which is on the western portion of our campus. Um I mentioned Car Share Vermont. It it is some students come from areas that have car share but many don't. So the way that this um organization it's a nonprofit and they have three cars on campus and then 20 more cars surrounding campus and um it's helpful for students that want um access to a car only when they need it. So, a lot of the times we see students use it to get to the mountains, um to go on hikes, maybe if they're doing a big grocery run with friends, they'll they'll use one of these cars. They do come equipped with bike rack and then ski racks in the winter. Um there are minivans, there are pickup trucks, and then there are smaller sedans like the one pictured here. Um all campus members get discounted car share membership um car share memberships if they would like to be a member of Car Share. Um so, it's a great option. and it's a great way to to um be able to be on campus without a car. So, it's not um you can't drop it off wherever. You do have to bring it back where you where you started with it. So, it is a roundtrip service. Um and then getting beyond campus. So, our long-distance transit page is a helpful resource um especially if you live um in the northeast North Atlantic area, but it does extend some options that go beyond that. Um but on that page it details the two um Amtrak stations that serve our students. Um Meabus who's restarting for Labor Day weekend. We also have Greyhound and Vermont Translines that service uh Burlington. Hometown Express most people aren't familiar with because that's a studentonly break bus service. So that bus will run um at the beginning and end of each break and it's only UVM and Champlain College students on it and they provide more direct service than typically the Mega Bus or Greyhound provides. And we are um we were told that Flex Bass is starting in September which will provide another route um to Montreal and and other places um in the region. So, we at UVM offer um a shuttle bus to connect students with these different transit providers to the beginning and if you take the Amtrak at the end of break [clears throat] to make sure that connection is made um and students don't have to worry about how they're going to get to these these different providers. And this is just a map showing where um each one is. So, here we are right in the center at the University of Vermont. Um we have on the on the left most or western most side the Amtrak station right on the waterfront that's called the um Ethan Allen Express and then all the way east or the rightmost side of your north right you'll see the other Amtrak um and that's called the Verer. We are quite close to the Burlington International Airport so a lot of students I hear have walked and biked there um but there is bus service to that as well. And then um you'll see a circle right above Redstone campus and that's where that break that brake liner bus called Hometown Express picks up students right on campus. Um another great option is um sharing rides with other students. Our eco reps which is a student peer advocacy group on campus that promotes sustainable practices amongst their peers um created a car a carpool board. So it's a student only. You have to >> are liking their apartment. >> That's good. >> You have to have a UVM only net ID to be able to get on the cat pool. Um, sorry, Kristen. Did you want to say something? I saw you came on camera. No. Okay. Um, so the student the student capole board is only open to UVM students. you can totally get on there now and register for an account with a net ID. Um, but it's a great resource to be able to share rides. Um, and it typically, um, while our first years are prohibited from bringing cars to campus, a lot of our upper classmen have cars on campus and they go to many of the places that our underassmen are trying to go. So, they fill up the seats, they split split gas money. Um, and while we had a more um I don't want to say amateur, but less robust um ride shareboard in the last few years, this is a really nice um website and a really will be a really useful tool for incoming students. >> Okay. All right. All right. So, we do have a couple questions in the chat from your segment, Abby. The first was um when will UVM bikes start actually renting their bikes? I did drop the link to the bikes web page because I know there's a link there to fill out an interest in renting, but do you have do you have any sense of timing? >> Um, yeah. So, typically they put up in the week or two before school starts, they'll put a student interest form up on the website and that form is where you can say, "Hey, I'm interested in getting a bike when I get to campus." And that signs you up for the, "Hey, we are starting to fit students for bikes. These are the times you can sign up." Um, but the students don't can't pick up or actually get a bike until I believe it's a second week in the semester after the students have like moved in and settled into their first week of classes. Then they typically um start matching students. But um yeah, I would keep an eye either on the transportation and parking social medias or um on the UVM bikes website for that that student interest form. >> All right. Again, that um link to the bikes web page is in the chat if you need it. Uh the someone else wanted to know how far away is the train station at Essex Junction. I did a quick search and it looks like it's about a 16minute drive about six or seven miles depending on route. >> Yep. And the bus number two you can um you can catch right from campus. It goes down route two and that terminate like the terminus of that line is the Essex Junction Amtrak. So you it it's um the number two runs very frequently, 15 to 30 minutes depending on the time of the day. And you can't miss the Amtrak station because that's the very end of the line. So that's a great way um to get to the Amtrak station. Um again, at the beginning and end of any of our um breaks, we will bring students out to it only arrives once a day, so we bring into departs once a day. So we make sure that we shuttle students from campus to that station. um at the Friday and Saturday before break and then at the Sunday at the end of break we'll pick them up. >> Yep. And we post those announcements on that web page that was on that first slide. So you'll see an announcement there for more information if you want to keep an eye a little bit closer to break. I see a couple of questions in there about um firstear employment parking waiver that's covered in my segment. So just sit tight. We will get there. Um there's a QR code so have your phone and camera handy. I'll get you there. Are there any other uh transportation sustainable transportation kind of questions for Abby? All right, I'm seeing questions about parking accommodations. So, I'm going to go ahead and just roll forward with mine. I'm going to close my chat window so I'm not getting squirrelrained. Okay. So, if you call our general customer service number to ask about parking and transportation, you are going to speak to either myself or to a member of my team and we're here to answer any of your questions. So, I'm going to just kind of take you through the most commonly asked questions and things that uh folks should know and let's get rolling. So, general information can be found on our website. that first QR code, TPS info. It's the same uh uvm.edu/transportation website that Abby had on the first slide. You can go ahead and scan that. There's a lot of really good information on there. Um there was some there were some questions about firstear student resident restrictions. So yes, generally speaking, firstear students, that is a student that has less than 27.0 zero completed credits, they are not eligible for a residential permit. Now, there are a few ways to work around that depending on your situation. The first one and the one that I saw in the chat was our first year employment waiver program. So, there is a QR code there. Now, this is a monthly permit that requires the student to upload payubs on a regular basis and the student must work a minimum of 10 hours per week. Of course, if someone is sick and they reach out to us or, you know, they're on break or something like that, we do try to be a little bit flexible with it, but it is a pretty hard and fast rule outside of those instances. So, go ahead and um fill out the form there if you are interested in applying for that. There are a couple of other accessibility accommodations that you can seek depending on your needs. If you are looking for something that is a full-time accessibility accommodation, that would go through the office of accessibility services. Uh this would not we don't receive or approve or review any kind of medical or private information. So you would want to scan that QR code and that links right to the form that you would need for a longer term parking accommodation through the office of accessibility services. Now hopefully this doesn't happen to anyone but it is Vermont. A lot of people ski and sometimes you may find yourself, you know, with a little bit of a sprained ankle or some sort of another injury that can sort of, you know, make it a little hard to park where you need to park or something like that. For one week, my team can write you an accommodation. That is it. So, if you reach out directly to us via email, we can write a oneweek tag and let you park on campus. And that is intended to be a stop gap to this fourth QR code that says CHWBSshortterm. That's the center for health and well-being. There's a form that you would fill out and then submit your medical documentmentation to according to the instructions linked there. They can issue generally four to six week accommodations and they will typically tell students and employees uh that if you are seeking a long anything longer than like four to six weeks, you may want to work through your doctor or through uh the state DMV. All right, ready for the next slide? Key to successful parking. I did put some clues on the right there. Take a peek. Think of a couple answers. It's an easy one. You see someone on their computer hopefully checking their email. You see a couple of signs that you might see at the entrances to our lots. [snorts] The answer is of course reading. Please read through the website. Please read through your emails. Please read through the signs. And if you have questions about the information that is out there, please reach out to us. We are here to help. And it is much easier to answer a question than it is to fix, you know, tickets or anything like that. Um, I've included a couple of resources here, including our campus maps. The version on the top left corner is a screen snip from our interactive campus map. I have a QR code there if you'd like to snap it. It's a really good resource for finding not only parking lots but also park mobile spaces, ADA parking, electric vehicle charging, and also campus buildings of course. Um you'll notice the little P signs on there. If you hover over any of those, it will show you can click and it will show you the sign that is listed there. So students will sometimes want to use like a park mobile. Not all park mobile spaces are okay for uh students and staff to use. So, it's kind of helpful to just take a peek at the sign that might be posted there just to make sure that you're eligible to park there and then to note any time limits. Also, if you buy, say, like a red permit, you can click residential red and it'll show you all of your eligible parking lot options. Um, additionally, we do have physical copies of the map that's on that you can see on the lower right hand side there. There are a couple of handy QR codes that probably too small to scan there. Um, when you arrive to campus, you are welcome to come visit us in Marsh Hall and we will have pads of these maps here. Super helpful. Talks about all of the different, you know, zones and the lots. You can kind of see where the shuttle runs and each of the shuttle stops is shown with a little shuttle icon which is helpful. Um, we also newly added a QR code that shows the E parking. So, if you're looking to charge, you can link right to that web page. Ready for the next slide? A lot of folks don't realize this. Um, we have a motorist assistance program. So, for students, but also for parents and visitors and things like that, as long as you are parked on campus, you are welcome to reach out to us. Um, instructions are listed at the QR code there. But generally, just give us a call during business hours. And if we are not available or it's after hours, just listen to the greeting and it'll tell you the number to call to reach out for that. We provide free help with jump starts and lockouts on campus 24/7. So definitely keep that in mind, especially as we get into the colder months and you know sometimes batteries can be a little less reliable. We are here to help. We also have ice scrapers in the parking office. So again, come see us. Friendly. We don't bite. Okay, tickets and towing. I hope this happens to none of the people on this presentation. Um, so ticket citations come in a yellow envelope on the windshield. If you see an envelope, please don't ignore it. Take a peek at it. It's better to take a peek and confront it headon before they start to accumulate. I can tell you that for non- egregious violations, you are generally allowed one warning, so it's one 0 ticket per year. This year changes right after uh commencement. So, we have started a new year and some folks unfortunately have already burned through their warnings. I hope that's again no one on this call. Um then from there you will start to receive fines. fines are posted on our website by violation and if you accumulate a number of tickets there is an escalating penalty. So the fines will start to grow and then once you read a certain number of tickets or if you do like an egregious violation say you park in maybe an ADA space or an EV space and not you know you don't have an EV vehicle you're just like ah park in a space that can unfortunately leave lead to towing. um that we generally in parking spaces that are reserved, it will say subject to tow without notice. So again, please be sure to be mindful of the signs and take a peek at them before you leave. It's not worth a tow. No one loves that. If you find yourself in one of those two boats with a fine or with a toe, the two QR codes on this slide can be helpful. The one on the top right is the link to the appeals process. This is a time-sensitive process. you must file your appeal within 14 days of ticket issuance for it to be considered. Um, our enforcement team, not a bot or something like that, but an actual human reviews each one of those along with any uploaded proof or backup that might be helpful. Um, and then toes, there's a link there. What happens if I'm towed? There's instructions. Generally, I can tell you during business hours, you will need to stop by this office here in Marsh Hall on campus to pick up a tow release form that you will sign. If the person that has been towed is a non-affiliate, so that means they are not an active student or an active full-time employee, they will unfortunately need to pay all of their fines before they are allowed a release form. So, just a warning again, tell your visitors, tell your mom, tell your friends, please reach out to us if you get warnings and tickets and we can help. Um, and then just for the parents on this call, Furpa. So, this is the privacy protective act that is across campus. Uh, we do run into folks that are a financial proxy and believe that this entitles access to their students driving record. This is unfortunately not the case or fortunately maybe for some student. If you students would like to allow your parents access, if you'd like to wave your right to this privacy, you can reach out to my team via email. We'll send you a form that you must send us to your UTM email address and then we will acknowledge it and add the parents permission in our system. I'm ready for the next slide. So I'm guessing that most of the folks on this call are a are firstear students or transfers that are maybe somewhere within their first year. This would be um students with again less than 27.0 credits. Now if you are at that 27.0 completed credits, meaning you're sophomore or above, you may be eligible for resident permit lotteryies. As of this moment, our fall resident permit lotteryies have concluded. If we find that we have additional space available, we may run an additional lottery and we would send information about that via email and we would also post it on our website. So again, read stuff, please. Um, and then for commuters and proximate zone, this would be any student that is living offampus. They do not have a residential assignments and they are not in one of the Redstone managed properties. So, Redstone Lofts and Redstone Commons, we are not allowed to sell permits to. But if you're not one of those and you're off campus, you have some sort of an apartment, maybe you're living with a parent or a friend or something like that, you would may be interested in knowing more about our commuter permits. So, this QR code here gives you general information about all student permits, including residential students and commuter students. Just thinking ahead even for the first year students commuter permits are not limited in quantity like residential permits are but they are limited by where you are commuting from. So we have something that is called the proximate zone which you can find linked on this QR code and it's an area surrounding campus that is accessible by bus and other means of transportation a lot of the things that Abby mentioned in her segments. So, if you have a proximate zone address, you would be limited to only the commuter evening permit. This is a permit that allows you to park before 9:00 a.m. or after 1:00 p.m. in the commuter lots, which are zone brown on that map. Um, if you are outside of that proximate zone, you can would be eligible for a commuter brown permit. This is a full day parking in our zone brown lots and you will need to upload proof of address and that is checked again by humans not by AI not by a bot or something like that. So please if you are buying a commuter permit be sure to do that before you need to start parking and be sure to submit [snorts] a proof of address. So two pieces of mail or a lease or rental agreement or something like that and this can be done on our portal or you can give us a call or swing by. Um, next slide, please. And then just generally, as I've said a few times, uh, if you have questions, visit us. Whether it's in person, on the website, emailing, calling. The photo that is there is outside of our office. So, when you see that sign, you know you've arrived. Come walk on in. We're on the first floor. And you'll see our sign hanging to the right there. I'm assuming I did see the chat kind of blowing up there. And I think I probably have a few questions. >> [snorts] >> Yeah, I can walk you through some of them. Um, you have questions about um, one is a um, parents during early move in when they're moving in their students, where can they leave their car? >> Okay, so if you're doing early, so during regular movein, this is not the question, but I'm sure this applies to a lot of people. There will be signs everywhere telling you which lot to go in, as well as helpers telling you where to park after you've unloaded. essentially pull up, help your kid up to the room, maybe someone stays with the car hopefully, and then get back to your car, get it back to where they tell you to, and then go walk up and do the whole look around the room and hug each other and things like that. For early move in, if you are moving your student in on a weekend, so a Saturday or a Sunday, you may park in any employeeonly lot. So that would be a green lot, a white lot, a brown lot. Those are not enforced on Saturday and Sunday. Employee only lots are enforced 700 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. on weekdays. So, if you need to park during that time, just reach out to us at parkinguvm.edu and we can talk through if you need a full day permit or if you just need to kind of park for a few hours or something like that. Generally speaking, if you're during business hours and you just need like a 30 minute space to dump off some bins and things like that, they're outside of most buildings, you'll find a 30 minute park mobile space. So, that is a payby app space that you'll see a sign for at that space. Uh that interactive map that was earlier in the presentation would be an excellent resource for finding those. >> Great. And you have a question from a student who has 38 credits. They're first year, but they have 38 credits, and they're wondering how um how they would get the um permit because of their status with 38 credits, a parking permit. >> Yeah. So, um 38 credits, even though it is your first year on campus, a student that has 38 completed credits is by office of the registar standards considered a sophomore or above. So, um, if you are living on campus, you would need to navigate through those, uh, permit lottery options that I mentioned. And if you're a commuter student, you would just follow that link and purchase your commuter permit online. Great. Um, it looked like we had a question about um, ebikes, so I'm going to go back to that slide. um and definitely recommend you get on our e micromobility website and it has all of the information about the requirements of a device. The most important requirement is that it must be UL certified um and it must be registered before um coming to campus. So that could be when you are purchasing the device to get the information from the manufacturer to confirm it's UL certified. And um as far as whether you can ship it to campus, that's a great question that I'm not sure about, but if you drop your um email address um or I could probably get it. It's probably it's probably your net ID that you're using to chat. So I will find out and get back to you about actually shipping it and then you can ask me any other questions. But this um website should be able to answer most of what you were asking. And then um there was somebody asking about getting from Boston to campus, like the best way to do that. And I will go back to our longdistance um transit page. There's a map on there showing all of the providers that serve Boston and campus. The ones that I hear um about most um are Amtrak and Mega Bus because they run all the time. But there are options like the um Hometown Express, which is a break only bus that will service Boston before and after breaks. That could be a good option as well. But check out our long-distance travel provider page for um details on that. The other great option is there's lots of students that come from the greater Boston area and um that carpool website that we mentioned would be a great place to post your ride. Like I'm arriving at this time and I'm trying to get to campus. Does anybody have an open seat? >> All right. I did see a question about a military waiver. So in certain circumstances, yes, that is an option that my team would process. um you your student would need to reach out via email to parking uuvm.edu. So that's our general inbox and um they would also need to send us their orders from their superior so that we could just verify that we would those are issued by semester and the student would need to be sure that they either renewed or reapplied for the spring if they needed to continue to park in the springy. Anything else in the chat? Let's see. Park during move in day Boston chat feature first year. I think that satisfies all of the questions in the chat. If anyone has any questions they want to talk through, please feel free to raise your hand and we can >> Yeah, >> you can um come off mute if you want to ask it or put um anything [clears throat] in the chat. We're happy to to hang out um and see if any other questions trickle in, but we do want to encourage everybody to complete the survey um to let us know what was useful, what wasn't useful, what would you like more of, what you thought of the session, and everybody that does this gets um a really good shot of getting a UVM bookstore gift card. So, thanks for providing that feedback. Um Ken, now go ahead and unmute yourself. I think I'm unmuted. Um, having trouble putting questions into the chat, by the way. That's not my question. Just letting you know that that's an issue. Maybe for more people than me. >> But question on Thanksgiving. Do classes typically get cancelled for the entire week or do they have classes all the way through say Wednesday morning? >> I'm gonna take a peek at the academic calendar. If memory serves, I believe it's the whole week. >> They are off the whole week. >> Yeah, it's the academic closure the whole week. >> Yeah, it's Corey, you can double check that, but it's typically the entire week. So, students are leaving campus on typically Friday and Saturday and then gone for the week, returning Sunday. >> Yes, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving recess for fall 26 is November 23rd through 27th. It's my birthday week, so I'm usually off all week anyways. It's also my birthday week and I'm paying too much money for these kids to have an entire week off. I'm I'm going to write a nasty letter. Uh, no, seriously. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Have a good day. >> Yeah, thank you. Right, I see a couple more hands raised. >> Yeah, go ahead, Michael. >> Hi. Yeah, if um a first year student gets a waiver because of a job and then in the second year doesn't um succeed in the lottery, would they still be able to use the job as a way to get a secondyear waiver and have a parking pass? >> Unfortunately, at this time, not. Um the first year WA employment waiver program is only available for students that have less than 27.0 zero credits. >> So, they would need to to navigate that um parking lottery and then if they are unsuccessful in the lottery, then they may need to kind of figure out some off-campus parking options. Unfortunately, we're just super limited with how much [clears throat] parking we can offer. So, there's generally more demand than we have supply. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. I see Amy has her hand raised. Yeah. Hi. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Um, do you know if there's any options um in town like people renting a parking space in their driveway or garage or things like that? >> So, that is 100% something that I hear happens pretty frequently. Uh we are unfortunately not officially allowed to sort of recommend parking that we don't control or enforce but I can tell you that you know city of Burlington does I believe has spaces for rent businesses do I know um I hear that folks will look on maybe front porch forum which is a nice local resource students may want to consider engaging with things like that. >> Okay that's helpful. Thank you. You're welcome, Amy. Right, I see another hand. M Brown, >> uh, yes. Uh, is there more information available about the car share service that you mentioned? I didn't see any links or anything there. >> Yeah, let me go back to that. Um, so there's a QR code. If you can scan that, that'll take you directly um to the website. Um but if you go to the transportation website you'll you can get linked through there but that um the campus program is specifically for the discounted program for UVM students and um we find that car share is great um for first years to experience and it and it helps a lot of our upperassment students not bring a car to campus even when they can in the future this access to the car when they need it. Yep. >> Perfect. Thank you. I'm sorry I missed that. Uh >> oh, no worries. Thanks for asking. I go through things fast, so I appreciate the questions and and flipping back. >> And also, um, at that new student orientation, like the f the big fair on the Saturday after Maine movein, Carshare Vermont usually does have a table there. Um, there may be a person there named Alicia working. It's usually who it is. Alicia's awesome. Like, swing by their table, whether it's her or not. They'll have probably little giveaway items and can there to answer any in-depth questions. And just a followup, any idea what the reduced rate is? I mean, how does it work in terms of costs or is that just too complex for this conversation? >> It's a great question. I haven't looked at it recently. Um, but they are really transparent with pricing on their website. So, they will say exactly what you get for the campus plan and how much it costs and then you can compare it to the other plans um to see what's the right fit for your student. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Yep. We'll hang out if there's any other questions, but I do also want to remind people that this will be recorded and posted on the website if you want to be able to look at it in the future or share it with anybody who wasn't able to attend today. Um, and Corey and I are really also easy to reach. It's just our first.ame at uvm.edu. edu if you want to reach out and um learn about any of the stuff we talked about today. And then the campus map and the transportation website are also great resources. >> Yep. And that um new student fair that's that first week and a Abby and I will each have a team member there as well. So swing by our table, pick up a map, come say hi. We'll probably have some giveaways. Okay. Well, not seeing any other questions coming in to the chat or anybody raising their hand. Um, we can go ahead and wrap up. We really appreciate everybody who joined us today and for all of the questions. Um, and we can't wait to see you if you're a student or if you're a parent to see you during movein and we're really excited um to start the new year in a couple weeks. So, thanks for attending and have a great night. >> Yes. Thank you.