Nightlife Navigators Chairman Cristian Arango announced at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday that the Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol’s service area will extend one block north of West University Avenue starting at the end of the semester.
Arango said students can request rides to Emerson Hall and Classroom Building 105. All drop-off and pick-up locations are on Northwest First Avenue.
The UF General Counsel approved the One More Block initiative Thursday, Arango said.
He said the agency is working to fund three more SNAP vans at about $30,000 each to travel to three other locations north of University Avenue. Two of the three new vans would transport students behind Hillel, St. Augustine Catholic Church and next to Classroom Building 105. He hopes these vans and locations will be added by Summer B.
“We worked really hard because we saw there was a need in the Student Body,” said Nightlife Navigators Chief of Staff Chris Ceresa.
Arango said the initiative is part of his legacy as chairman.
“I wanted to design a SG agency that would be required to promise the Student Body that it would lobby to make our campus safer,” he said.
Contact Colleen Wright at cwright@alligator.org.
