Attached is a portion of a contract proposal with Coca-Cola's responses.

Below is an email exchange between Morgan White, Aaron Finder, and Daphen Hulse:

Hi Jake,

I hope your week is off to a good start. Based on our internal meeting yesterday, we have some action items we would like to put on the docket to address on Wednesday/discuss through email as needed.

• Sustainability Funds
  
  • How will we be funding the volunteer t-shirts for the Zero Waste Basketball Event?
  • For the campuswide Don’t Waste campaign, how is the YAH Agency’s involvement being funded?
  • Circular Solutions Audit: I believe you mentioned this was an item to discuss tomorrow; clarification on cost/who will be funding is appreciated!

• Zero Waste Basketball Event
  
  • We have a basic vision and roadmap document drafted, and we are eager to add detailed action items (some details will come after F&S visits State Farm Center; I am awaiting a response from the State Farm Center point of contact).
    
    • We would like to clarify the roles and responsibilities of each entity involved in this event, including Coca-Cola.
    • Determining how many Coca-Cola bins we will need for State Farm Center.
    • The group at the internal meeting reviewed the updated digital signage. For clarification, is it correct that the darker blue used for the signage is not the brighter, royal blue being used on the updated bins?

I know that the YAH Agency is awaiting our response as well – I will make sure we get an email back to them today!

Thank you,

Daphne

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Hi Aaron,

We would like to get clarity about the Coca-cola funding for sustainability and how it is allocated.  Jake Slager told us recently (within the last few weeks) that the campus had funded the cardboard landfill and recycling bins that they provided to us for the Welcome Week ceremony. 

Could you please talk with Daphne Hulse, the new Zero Waste Coordinator, to provide clarity about what Coke promised about the “sustainability funding”?  We would like to establish shared expectations with them about how and when those dollars are spent.  That is, can we reach an understanding with Coke that we will jointly agree in advance on which projects/items are funded out of this “sustainability funding” in the Coke contract?

Also, Jen, Meredith, and I understood from you that the sustainability funding is $15K per year, but Jake said it is $10k/year.  Can you please confirm which one is correct?

Thank you,

Morgan

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Hi Morgan,

Answers to your questions, including specific contract language, were emailed on April 7th, attached. $10,000 is the correct amount. The contract was written with the intent that the campus Zero Waste Coordinator would be charged with having these discussions with Coca-Cola and defining a mutual agreed upon process. In my opinion, this would include determining where sustainability funds are used. Questions about the approval of funding would have to be submitted to the contract owner, VC for Admin and Operations, Mike DeLorenzo.

Thanks,

Aaron M Finder, mba cppb