# Board floats free two-hour parking in the convention center garage; options due in October

## What happened
Chair Brandon Sakbun asked the Capital Improvement Board (CIB) to consider free two-hour parking in the convention center garage, saying new downtown restaurants and coming construction will make street parking harder ([0:54:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3262), [0:55:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3303)). A board member backed it as a way to ease lunch and dinner crowding at an underused garage, while warning it could become a parking lot for Indiana State University students ([0:56:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3376)). Convention center staff said ISU students flooded the garage for monthly passes when it opened, and suggested talking with ISU parking first ([0:58:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3518)). Sakbun said he would not oppose raising the $1-an-hour rate to $1.25 to offset lost revenue ([1:00:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3651)).

## The outcome
No action was taken. Sakbun asked for three options to review at the October meeting ([1:01:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3674)).

## Sources
- [Item 6.3 introduced, 0:54:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3262)
- [Free two-hour proposal, 0:55:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3303)
- [Board member support and student concern, 0:56:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3376)
- [Staff on ISU students, 0:58:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3518)
- [Possible $1.25 rate, 1:00:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3651)
- [Three options for October, 1:01:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Is1mqP4Qc&t=3674)

*Also known as: free parking downtown Terre Haute · convention center garage parking · two hours free parking · ISU students parking garage*