Parking rates on the Davis campus are going up July 1 for daily and monthly permits, Transportation and Parking Services announced.

The new charge for a daily permit will be $7, an increase of $1. This is the first increase in this rate since 2003.

Monthly permit rates last went up in 2009. For most people who drive to the campus, the rate increase for 2011-12 is $1 a month. Samples of the new rates:

• A — $49 a month, $588 a year
• C — $40 a month, $480 a year
• 2-person A carpool — $19 a month, $228 a year, per person
• 2-person C carpool — $15 a month, $180 a year, per person
• 3-person A carpool — $13 a month, $156 a year, per person
• 3-person C carpool — $11 a month, $132 a year, per person
• L (remote parking lots) — $23 a month, $276 a year
• M (moped-motorized scooter or motorcycle) — $21 a month, $252 a year

(The CH rate, for the chancellor and members of the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors, is automatically double the A permit rate. Therefore, the CH rate will go up $2 a month, to $98, or $1,176 a year.)

In a letter announcing the rate increases, TAPS Director Clifford A. Contreras said: “We have implemented multiple strategies to hold down overhead costs and create efficiencies within our operation. These cost control and reduction strategies are ongoing.

“However, rate increases are necessary this year to offset increases in represented staff salaries, employer retirement contributions, campus service assessments and increased parking facility maintenance expenses.”

Contreras suggested that staff and faculty members can always change their permit levels to cut costs. More information is available online, by telephone, (530) 752-8277, or e-mail, taps@ucdavis.edu, or in person at the TAPS office, just north of the west entry parking garage off Hutchison Drive. TAPS also promotes alternative transportation, via the goClub: for commuting by carpool and vanpool, bus, train, biking and walking.