For as long as Pat Bristor, associate dean of students, has worked at Waynesburg University, the responsibility for the university vans fell under her preview. This week that will change. Supervision over university vans, which are utilized by the Student  

Activities Board, Athletics and other services, transitioned from Student Services to  

Facilities Management. Through this change, Terry Sattler, director of Facilities Planning and Management, said it will allow for easier upkeep oversight.“All university vehicles [now] fall under our preview [at Facilities  

Management],” Sattler said. “The reason is pretty simple; we just thought centralizing the fleet would be a better way for maintenance and  

scheduling of all the vehicles.”Last July, the first phase of this transition took place, with university  

vehicles moving from various departments and student services into the hands of Facilities Management. Finally, this past week, vans were added to the list.Sattler said the change wasn’t because the vehicles were being handled poorly, rather Facilities Management could more accurately ensure maintenance and scheduling.“Student Services… who have been taking care of the vans up until this point, has done an excellent job,” Sattler said. “[Bristor is very capable of handling what she did with the vans] – very good job. We’re not taking things off of her because she wasn’t doing her job, that wasn’t the case in any of our areas, but we did see some cases where a centralized system would be better.”Ryan Smith, assistant  

director of Student Services, said despite the change in oversite on the university vans, the process to rent or use a vehicle will remain the same. “For the most part, the same system of logging in and filling out a form [to use a vehicle] – that’s all the same,” said Smith. “It’s just now being sent to [maintenance], rather than to [Bristor] when this  

process changes.”Although the process will stay the same, the policies are going to change. According to Smith,  

students and clubs will not have to pay as much when they rent or borrow university vehicles in the future.“The policy used to be that if you rented or used one of the university  

vehicles, you would get charged for mileage and gas,” said Smith, “[Now,] instead of being charged for mileage, you’re only  

being charged for gas. So, it’s much cheaper for maybe smaller clubs to use the vans.”Students can access the van request forms on MyConnect, additionally any other questions about renting or usage of campus vehicles may be directed to Sattler.