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May 20, 2005 Regents approve, parking and residence rates, phase I for new dairy facilityby Anne Krapfl New parking permit and violation fees will go into effect July 1, following Board of Regent, State of Iowa approval at the board's May 5 meeting. The fine for unauthorized use of a parking permit will double, from $40 to $80. Numerous moving violations -- driving on campus sidewalks or bike paths, failure to comply with traffic signs, driving around a barricade, for example - will go from $20 to $30. The fine for an expired parking meter will go from $5 to $7.50 and an illegal parking ticket will cost $15 instead of the current $12. Following are the approved increases in parking permit rates:
Student feesThe regents also approved changes to non-tuition related fees for students. (Tuition and mandatory fees were approved in February.) Iowa State will add five fees and eliminate five others next year. The additions include:
Additionally, Iowa State will eliminate the Praxis I preparation fee (practice tests are available free online) and the MBA course delivery fee (included in tuition-related fees approved in November). Room and board ratesA double-occupancy room in Richardson Court with full board (17-plus meals per week) will go up $175 or 2.9 percent -- to $6,133 -- under rates approved by the regents for next year. Room-board packages in the Union Drive and Maple-Willow-Larch neighborhoods will increase 4 percent. Frederiksen Court apartment rates will increase between 1.6 percent and 4 percent, with the exception of when students share a bedroom. Those rates actually will decrease 4 to 6 percent next year. Apartment rates at University Village and Schilletter Village, where occupancy rates have been falling, will see no increase next year. Most meal packages, available to non-residence hall students as well, will increase 4 percent, as proposed. The new rates went into effect for summer session. With tuition and fee increases approved this winter, and the new room and board rates (for shared room, full meal plan), the additional cost to an undergraduate resident student to attend Iowa State this fall will be $383 (3.4 percent increase over last year). In other business, the regents:
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