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REBUTTAL BY TOM BRADY
by Don Wedding, UT-AAUP Executive Board
Below is a rebuttal by former Dean Dr. Tom Brady to our UT-AAUP parking newsletter of August 21, 2011.
As a former dean who parked on campus daily and who was frequently on and off the campus during the week and who owns 9 cars and a motorcycle, I was thrilled with the announcement of the new technology-based parking system. It will lower the cost of surveillance and writing and collecting for parking violations and, will allow departments and colleges to easily and quickly grant parking permits on line and by email to campus visitors. It will also eliminate the cost and inefficiency of preparing and distributing paper parking permits annually. Further, I am absolutely confident that the "glitches" in the new system, whether they be sorting out the best way to handle handicapped parking or granting multi car privileges to staff and faculty and special donors (me), will be handled once those "glitches" are identified.
The most expeditious way to get those "glitches" documented and handled would be for organizations representing staff and faculty (like the AAUP) to work positively and cooperatively to help make that happen, to everyone's benefit.
Tom Brady
Chairman and CEO
Plastic Technologies, Inc.
419-376-5041 (mobile)
419-867-5401 (office)
t.brady@plastictechnologies.com
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