[Bgsa] more about access to loading dock - parking at the loading dock

[Carla Essenberg]

Dear All,

Esther points out that in addition to getting through the gate, you
also need a placard to park at the loading dock.  When you check out
the gate access from Shardai, she will give you a placard, which will
allow you to park for about 20 minutes.  So, just pestering your
professor into getting a FOB to get through the gate isn't really
enough.  I am asking to see if they could make it possible to check
out the gate access stuff from Shardai for longer (e.g., overnight or
weekends) and will see if I can find out whether the professors can
have placards for parking at the loading dock.

Incidentally, Esther also mentions that lab prep has a gate access
card and placard that they can loan out if the one in the BNN office
is already checked out.

Thanks, Esther!

Cheers,

Carla


Email from Esther Valdez about parking at the loading dock:

I could be wrong...
I don't believe having a FOB allows you to park at the loading dock,I
think it only allows you to enter through the gate. You can park just
to load/unload right at the dock and then you have to immediately move
your vehicle. I don't recommend leaving your vehicle to go get
something from upstairs, you will most likely get a ticket...the voice
of experience.
The gate pass that can be checked out from Shardai includes a placard
that allows you to park for about 20 minutes or so to load/unload or
take care of whatever business in the building. Even with the placard,
we are not allowed to park at the dock for an extended period of time
(ie, hours) during business hours - not sure about extended parking on
nights or weekends and I haven't risked it. Also, the custodians seem
to be allowed to park at the dock after 5 so access after 5 is pretty
limited. Lab Prep has a gate card/parking placard which we loan out
only if Shardai's is not available.



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Carla Essenberg
<cesse001 at student.ucr.edu> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I asked John Rotenberry if he had made any progress on finding a
> better system to get access to the loading dock, and it turned out
> that he had made some.  He has spoken with Bev, and the upshot of this
> is that faculty can request a FOB that will open the gate to the
> loading dock, and once they have them, can lend them to students.
> They make the request to Bev and pay a small fee - see the message
> from Bev below (and forward it to your advisors, if you like) - it
> sounds like it is pretty easy, even for overworked faculty members.
>
> Unfortunately, we cannot request these ourselves.  However, if you
> need to use the loading dock before you are able to get your advisor
> (or some other friendly professor) to help you out with this, you can
> still get access via a somewhat inconvenient process during business
> hours, which may nonetheless beat getting a parking ticket.
> Basically, there is one FOB or card for opening the gate that is
> available to be checked out from Shardai.  Because there is only one,
> you can't check it out for more than a few hours, but it would be
> feasible to park your car somewhere legal on campus, check out the
> FOB, then go back to your car, do what you need to do, park it again,
> and return the FOB.  Just requires a little planning.  I'll ask John
> if it might be possible to get a few more so that we could check them
> out overnight.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carla
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Beverly McNeil <beverly.mcneil at ucr.edu>
> Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM
> Subject: RE: access to loading dock
> To: Carla Essenberg <cesse001 at student.ucr.edu>
> Cc: "John T. Rotenberry" <John.Rotenberry at ucr.edu>
>
>
> Dear Carla,
>
> Any of our faculty can contact me regarding gate access.  If they have a
> FOB, I can arrange to get it activated (they actually have to go out to the
> gate to "wave" it in front, while I call Parking to notify them, so I have
> to be here when they do it).  If they do not have a FOB, they can get one
> and is about $5.00 (again, they need to go through me).  Or, they can get a
> proximity card (if they are still available, as we last checked about a year
> ago on this option) it is about $15.00.
>
> If any of the faculty wish to have this done, it is best to email me and we
> can set up a time and which arrangement above they are interested in.  This
> would be the only paperwork they need (they can talk with Dr. Cardullo on
> how "easy" the process is if they would like, as I recently activated his
> FOB for the gate).
>
> Thanks,
> Bev
>
>
>
>
>
> Beverly McNeil
> Financial & Administrative Officer
> Departments of Biology ,
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> The Natural Reserve System
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> University of California, Riverside
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: carla.essenberg at gmail.com [mailto:carla.essenberg at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Carla Essenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:12 PM
> To: Beverly McNeil
> Cc: John T. Rotenberry
> Subject: access to loading dock
>
> Hello Bev,
>
> I spoke to John this morning about getting access to the loading dock, and
> he said that faculty are able to request fobs that would allow them to open
> the gate.  I'd like to communicate this to the graduate students so that
> they can pester their advisors to do this, but would first like to confirm -
> would the professors need to come to you, or should they go to someone else,
> and is the process difficult (i.e., a fair amount of paperwork needed?) or
> do they just need to ask?
>
> I shall look forward to your reply.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carla
>
> --
> Carla Essenberg
> PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
> Department of Biology
> University of California, Riverside
>
>
>
>
> --
> Carla Essenberg
> PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
> Department of Biology
> University of California, Riverside
>



-- 
Carla Essenberg
PhD Candidate and EEOBGSA President
Department of Biology
University of California, Riverside