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Final meeting where members reflected on the year's accomplishments and reviewed projects/gave feedback on procedures. 

School of Art and Design Re-Fashioned Fashion Show

The annual School of Art and Design fashion show is back! Re-Fashioned will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Siebel Center. Admission is free. Students from the Studio Arts Fashion Concentration will be presenting over 100 one-of-a-kind ensembles. Wearable works of art walk the runway, combining sustainability and creativity in a fun event for the whole family. 

The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) met on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 1 - 2:30 p.m.. Following was the agenda for the meeting:

• Introduction – Morgan White (5 minutes)
• Old Business
  • F&S TDM Status Update – Stacey DeLorenzo and Sarthak Prasad (25 minutes)
  • Lincoln Ave Corridor Study (North of Florida Ave) – CCRPC (15 minutes)
  • Bike Share Updates– Sarthak Prasad (5 minutes)
• New Business
  • EV infrastructure research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • E-bike research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • Air Travel Emissions research – Karina Jang (10 minutes)
  • 2025 Transportation Survey – Sepideh Azizi (10 minutes)
• Community Updates – (5 minutes) 

Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/f9vq8w52a4tjmu154ecuspfyfjqb9784.

The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for April 2025.

The University Bicycle Ordinance was updated in spring 2025. This update includes information and rules for bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters on-campus. Download the updated document here: https://go.illinois.edu/BikeOrdinance

At our last Lights Out event of the semester, 2711 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $412.47 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.045 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 397 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact and thank you all for a great semester!

Please follow the document attached to read about the 2025 Arbor Day celebration, which was celebrated on the south quad. 

The iCAP Education Team met on Monday, May 5th from 4-5 pm via Teams. First we had a discussion recapping the Green Globes and iCAP Reception event where student input on the 2025 iCAP objectives was collected. Then we discussed the next steps towards the sustainability Gen-Ed requirement and the sustainability literacy assessment. We closed by sharing iSEE partnered internship opportunities. The meeting minutes are attached. 

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2025 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,377 Megawatt hours.

The April 2025 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

Students from the Dept of Landscape Architecture, Dept of Civil Engineering, and faculty advisors have submitted to the 2025 EPA Rainworks Challenge. 

Friday was a busy day. First up was the quad event, which despite the rainy weather earlier in the day, ended up being a dry time and quite popular. We’ve had 2 – 3 people come by CBC after having been at the Quad event, so it’s definitely getting some new folks aware of our space. Our open hours were not crazy busy on the bike side of things, but our gear rental partners were positively slammed, which created some logjams at the entrance—nothing we couldn’t handle!

This week we have our last Instructional Class of the semester, and unfortunately the lead staffer for that program is graduating. Replicating that staffer’s expertise and enthusiasm for the work will be a tall order.

Tonight is the Bike Project Members’ Meeting, which I’ll be attending.

Warm weather this week, so we’ll likely be busy.

The numbers:

Visitors: 60
Sales: $1,005.25
Memberships: 9 for $270
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $360
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Tires/tubes: 14 for $111

At this past Illini Lights Out event,  2859 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $434.98 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.3 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 489 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact!

Last week was decidedly unbusy, surprisingly! Easter weekend made for a quieter Friday.

We have two new student staff joining us this week or next. Should have a couple weeks to train them up before they forget everything over the summer. Summer learning loss isn’t just for book-learning!

Warmer weather this week should bump our visit numbers. Tomorrow is a bike light giveaway, which we’ll mention to folks who come in today. Elsewhere, still turning out the bikes and hovering around 20 fixed up and ready for sale.

The numbers:
Visitors: 65
Sales: $405.50
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tires/tubes: 10 for $83

Agenda

• Michael's updates
  • Recommendation page: added a Files column which shows any files associated with each Recommendation Update (e.g. ECONS004 Green Labs Coordinator)
  • SSC Projects:
    • Added column click sorting to SSC Projects table
    • Added ability to add/edit description to SSC Projects listing page
  • Metrics fixes:
    • Metric: Bicycle Registration in Project 529 system: Karina Jang had tried to restore a past Metric revision, which didn't work well and clobbered a few records. We reviewed the data and restored the broken/missing records. I have disabled restoring revisions for now. iCAP Admins and Moderators can view revisions, but cannot restore them. While it may typically work for basic content like text fields, it doesn't seem to work well for connected content like tracking records.
    • Metric: Total Purchased Clean Power: Somehow 2 empty records were created when Zach Bromberg updated this metric. I have made the Value and Date fields required, which should help avoid that in the future.
  • Showing Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages:
    • Initial version of how this could work available on live site (only visible when logged in):
      • Added Associated Recommendation(s) section in main column
      • List each associated recommendation w/its current status
      • Under each recommendation, show table of its related recommendation updates
    • You can find Project pages with associated Recommendations by visiting a Recommendation (All Recommendations) and clicking on its associated Projects.
    • Example pages:
      • Clean Power Agreements Off-Campus - only 2 recommendations; looks pretty good
      • Sustainability Council - somewhat long page
      • Zero Waste iCAP Team - pretty long page
      • iCAP Working Group (iWG) - really long page!
    • Thoughts? For projects with a lot of recommendation updates, it gets a bit busy...
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

• Recommendations on project pages
  • Will have a side channel meeting to discuss how best to cross reference iCAP Projects and Recommendations
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics
  • Need better way to display metrics with large numbers of tracking records
    • Michael will return to investigating switching charting systems
  • Need to be able to combine multiple metrics on a single graph
    • Michael had previously started work on this; can resurrect and continue it
    • Will have a side channel meeting to discuss needs in more depth

TODOs

• Various follow-up side channel meetings between monthly meetings.

Bicycle census 2025 is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, April 29, 2023 from 11 - 12 pm. We have worked with F&S FIR department to develop the survey collection platform using ArcGIS Field Maps. See the Bike Census 2025: Volunteer Instruction Guide for more information.

Please see attached.

Please see attached the map blocks for Bike Census 2023.