The parking lot of the UNCW Randall Library. (Port City Daily/File)
WILMINGTON — An internal audit conducted by UNCW two years ago found that “some improvement is needed” in aspects of the university’s parking operations. On June 24 of this year, the internal auditors reported back, determining that the six findings are “considered closed/resolved.”
Among the initial findings of the Office of Internal Audit was that between 2006 and the end of 2018, UNCW had left $1,362,214 on the street in unpaid citation fines, a total of 31,760 unpaid citations.
The internal auditors reported UNCW had no issues collecting parking fines from active students; the majority of unpaid citations came from visitors to campus. The 2019 audit stated, at the time: “Parking Services has no defined process for collecting parking citation fines from faculty, staff, visitors, and contract employees on campus.”