City to allow parking tickets to be paid with school supplies
July 31, 2019
On Tuesday, July 30, Tuscaloosa City Council members approved a resolution to allow certain parking fines to be paid with school supplies.
For the month of August, Tuscaloosa residents can pay off overtime parking tickets with $10 worth of school supplies. All received supplies will be donated to the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education and distributed to local students in need.
Below is a list of acceptable supplies and the assigned values (receipts for purchase can be shown in lieu of the City’s assigned values):
| Heavy Duty Backpacks | $10 and up |
| Ream White Copy Paper | $4 and up |
| Index Cards | $0.50 and up |
| Black & Blue Ink Pens | $1 and up |
| 16GB Flash Drive | $4 and up |
| Scientific Calculators | $9 and up |
| Erasers – 3 packs | $1.50 and up |
| Standard/College Ruled | $1 and up |
| College-Ruled Spiral Notebooks | $0.60 and up |
| Mechanical or #2 pencils | $1 and up |
| Binder Pouches | $6 and up |
| Clorox/Lysol Wipes 3 packs | $6.50 and up |
| Highlighters 3ct. | $2.10 and up |
| Highlighters 10ct. | $6 and up |
| Hand Sanitizers | $2 and up |
| Box(es) of Kleenex Tissues | $1.60 and up |
| Binder Dividers | $1.50 and up |
| Box of Crayons | $3 and up |
| Kids’ Scissors | $1.50 and up |
Participants can bring their school supplies to Tuscaloosa Municipal Court at 2122 6th St. The program will start tomorrow, Aug. 1 and end on Aug. 31.