Parking without a permit will now result in a $40 ticket, campus police said.

Visitors may purchase $3 day passes at the yellow cash-only kiosks and $20 semester-based parking permits from the Bookstore.

Enforcing parking permits aligns with new Police Chief Matthew Vander Horck’s effort to bring the campus police more operational revenue.

“I didn’t know that the former chief had told them not to cite the students, and so I said, ‘No, you need to cite students and faculty,’” Vander Horck said.

Nearly half of the police department’s budget, which is about $2 million before salaries and benefits and $200,000 after, comes directly from parking permits and citations.

In contrast, Cerritos College Police Department has a budget of about $5 million.

Future updates to the parking system would allow for rates to fluctuate based on events by replacing kiosks with scannable QR codes linking to a website where students can pay for parking, similar to those used at Cerritos College.

“That’s more revenue for the school, and that gives a lot more flexibility than having to do just the one rate and those daily boxes that don’t work all the time,” Vander Horck said.

The parking situation on campus is something that frustrates students and faculty alike, with permit enforcement being a recent change.

“This is the first semester we’re selling the parking pass. It was very busy. There were a lot of people here and about all of them were for the parking pass,” 20-year-old fashion design major Alejandra Sanchez, who has worked as a Bookstore cashier for one year, said.

Cash-only parking kiosks add to the parking difficulties as some claim to accept card but do not.

C.J. Reyes, 25, isn’t enrolled at ECC but was checking it out for his brother and went to search for a kiosk which would accept card payments.

“I’m surprised it doesn’t have a credit card payment method,” Reyes said.