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May 22, 2003

Attention: Office of Revenue Collection

& Contra Costa Community College District Police Department

Members of the San Francisco Angels baseball team are protesting the issuing of tickets on Wednesday May 21 after 5pm. I am the scorekeeper for the San Francisco Angels summer collegiate baseball team, and the father of one of the players. Our team had a scheduled game Wednesday May 21 at 5pm, at the Diablo Valley College (DVC) baseball field for the first time (see scheduled attached).  We were playing the Oakland Eagles, which is a summer team comprised of players from Laney, Sierra, and Diablo Valley Colleges. The game was an approved campus event. We were not forewarned that there was a $1 parking fee at the college.

The game started late because players and others were rushing in after heavy traffic. I’ve never been to Diablo Valley College, nor had most of the players on our team.  It was past 5:00pm. Unoriented visitors should be given clear signs explaining the parking policies. Only at the entrance of the service road that goes to the baseball field is there a sign regarding restricted parking, and it is ambiguous, and seemed to refer to restricted parking beyond the sign, and not in the main lot. The $1 coin fee slot box was way off to the side, next to the tennis courts, again with no highly visible sign. Even someone with a mind to look for a fee slot would have great difficulty in finding it.

Please forward this protest to the people in charge of parking signs at Diablo Valley College- or better yet their supervisors, so they can be questioned why appropriate signage is not clearly visible to a first-user user of the parking area. We suggest the following:

$1 PARKING FEE –

PAY IN ADVANCE AT THAT LITTLE BOX WITH THE TINY LITTLE SIGN DOWN BY THE TENNIS COURTS OR RISK A $35 PARKING TICKET!

Note: The outcome of this fine concerted effort at justice has never been disclosed by the parties receiving tickets. The parking lot was repaved and new signs put up in late 2003.