Student Government will sell 25 parking spots in the main student lot for $50 to seniors for the spring term. There are 25 specific spots that are available to be chosen by the students who are selected at random from the pool of applicants. Seniors who purchase the spots will be able to personalize them on Monday, January 8, the designated painting day.

This is the first time Roseville High School has sold parking spots and assistant principal Matt Pipitone believes that this will continue in years to come.

“We are going to see how it goes,” Pipitone said. “It is a pilot project so depending on how it works and how it is received we will either continue it, discontinue it, or tweak it but I anticipate in all likelihood we will continue it.”

Student Government adviser Brent Mattix views selling customized parking spots as an opportunity to make the campus better by beautifying the student lot with monitored creative expression.

“The overall benefit is that this is going to be a culture change because students have gone out for the last few years and they’ve graffitied the parking lot trying to customize their own spot and it really doesn’t look good,” Mattix said. “Down the road we know that students who graffiti out there will have consequences so we are hoping to pilot this and change the mindset right away and make sure the parking lot looks a lot nicer.”

The money raised in the fundraiser will go to Student Government to fund a class training and bonding retreat over the summer.

“We haven’t had the money to do a retreat, students would have to pay up to $60 to attend and I couldn’t justify that,” Mattix said. “However, this fundraiser will give us part of the funds and then the rest of it we will use our ASB money to supplement it.”

Junior Hannah Heaton, a member of Student Government, believes the money could go to other events that could benefit from the funding.

“I would rather have the money go to different committees and maybe into senior ball or other events like decorations for rallies or maybe better deejays at the dances,” Heaton said.

Senior Olyvia Schaefer said she is interested in purchasing the spots in time for the crowded spring term when many sophomores are able to drive themselves to school.