It looks like Wake will clean up a board/staff disconnect that limited how much high school students could carpool to school.
As noted in today's article, staff is revising high school parking guidelines to drop the wording that students can't share campus parking spaces. School board member Patti Head will ask her colleagues today to sign off on the revisions.
The changes became needed because the school board's efforts to encourage student carpooling hit a snag this school year.
During the controversy last year over the $50 increase in student parking fees, board members told upset students they could always carpool and share parking spaces. The board went on to amend the parking policy to say that "carpooling should be encouraged to the extent possible."
One big problem emerged. The 2008-09 high school parking regulations developed by staff say in bold letters that spaces may NOT be shared.
Even though the regulations aren't binding, it looks like nearly all of the high schools went with the ban on sharing parking spaces.
The new regulations should be in place for the 2009-10 school year. It's uncertain how many students will utilize the carpooling option.
Few students at East Wake High and Wake Forest-Rolesville High, which both allowed spaces to be shared this year, have opted to share spaces.
