Long Beach City College announced this week that parking will be free for the fall semester and unvaccinated students are still eligible for a bookstore voucher if they get fully vaccinated by the end of September.
Students will be allowed to park in any unmarked stall at either the Liberal Arts or Pacific Coast Campus for free during the upcoming semester, the college announced Wednesday.
Other stalls that are designated for staff, disabled persons and those at Veterans Stadium, which is being used by the city for COVID-19 testing, are still off limits to students.
A parking pass for the upcoming semester would have cost $30 or students could have opted for paying for daily permits prior to the college’s announcement.
The college is also extending its program that offered vouchers to the campus bookstore in exchange for students being fully vaccinated.
Earlier this month the college announced it would offer $300 vouchers to the campus bookstore for students who got vaccinated before Aug. 30. Wednesday’s announcement said the program was being extended to Sept. 30, but the voucher will now be for $150.
A school spokesperson couldn’t immediately say why the vouchers had been cut in half but said that “people have been responding positively to the incentive.”
Students can get vaccinated at a variety of clinics in the city, including one located at the college’s Pacific Coast Campus, located at Pacific Coast Highway and Orange Avenue. The school has created a portal where students can update their proof of vaccine and the school previously said that the bookstore vouchers would be distributed like financial aid.
LBCC joined Long Beach State University in July in announcing that students and staff would need to be vaccinated to attend in-person classes in the fall or submit to regular testing.
Free testing locations have been set up on campus for unvaccinated LBCC students who are now required to submit weekly COVID-19 test results to continue to attend in-person classes. The school’s website says that failure to comply with the testing requirement could open students up to progressive disciplinary action.