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Enterprise Rent-A-Care brings STRIPES initiative to halt while UM officials drive it forward
Proposal to lower driving age is turning a new corner
By Matt Reinig Sept. 8, 2008
STRIPES' initiative to lower the age requirement of their drivers from 21 to 18 is looking 'promising.'
A university insurance policy memo, filed in 2003 by former Risk and Insurance Management Director William Payton, agreed that the university's insurance would cover any damages to the rental cars driven by student-volunteers, including those under 21.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Cathy Scroggs said the university stands by the memo, but insurance policy negotiations between STRIPES and its rental car agency, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, have snagged the initiative, STRIPES Director Domingo Pacheco said.
Pacheco said that even with the UM system assuming insurance liabilities for the STRIPES drivers below the age of 21, it prompted no action on behalf of Enterprise's Risk Management Department.
'The thing that's really frustrating to us is that Enterprise has sat on that memo since 2003,' Pacheco said.
Pacheco said he approached Enterprise and offered to work with them to lower the age, but received little cooperation
As many as 7,000 low-income residents are expected to put their names on a waiting list this week for federally funded Marin County housing vouchers in the first sign-up of its kind in six years.
Kimberly Carroll, a deputy director for the Marin County Housing Authority, said competition for these so-called Section 8 vouchers has increased due to the nation's slumping economy and rising rents in the Bay Area. Participants are required to pay 30 percent of their gross monthly income as their share of the rent, and the vouchers cover the remainder.
'We opened it for a week, and we're assuming we're probably going to get anywhere from 5,000 to 7,000 applicants,' Carroll said. The last time the waiting list was opened in 2002 some 5,000 people signed up, but now that list is down to fewer than 100 people.
Carroll said she tells people it could take two to five years to get a voucher once they get their name on the waiting list. 'It's certainly nothing that is going to happen right away,' she said
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