Meeting with Sterling
Sarthak Prasad met with Sterling on 6/29/2023.
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Sarthak Prasad met with Sterling on 6/29/2023.
We have replaced the bike repair stations at Campus Bike Center, Altgeld Hall, and in the parking lot C-9 at the intersection of Fifth and Daniels.
F&S created a design to install a new curb cut at the intersection of Main and Mathews. This design was sent to the City of Urbana for approval. Once approved by the City of Urbana, F&S will construct this curb cut in-house.
The bicycle repair station at Campus Bike Center was replaced with Saris Public repair station. The installation was completed on 6/26/2023
All, Pretty chill week overall. Great weather but not very busy. Got some donations from Champaign Cycle last Tuesday.
One student worker that just graduated did a bike trip down the western border of Illinois last week and is headed to Iceland for another biking trip tomorrow. He bike-commutes and also did I4K. Great to see folks explore all the different ways to have fun with a bike.
Another student worker is scaling back here as they were offered more hours at Champaign Cycle. Always good to see staff move on to bigger and better things.
Thanks to Todd for grabbing scrap over the long weekend.
The numbers:
Visitors: 28
Sales: $904.42
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $360
Memberships: 9 for $270
Tire/tubes: 7 for $44
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Sarthak and Morgan met with Phil Krein to talk about the EV charging support on campus. See attached the powerpoint slides that Phil shared. Following are some talking points:
See the meeting recording here: https://uofi.box.com/s/o462lbl362rpw9p7jvoet8cmqsgxf7x6
All, Feast or famine over here last week. Beginning of the week we were slammed but slow n’ steady by Friday. TBP held their Members’ Meeting last Monday and I attended. Got a unicycle donated as well as a handful of bikes, including some kids bikes.
Spent 15 minutes on the phone with a gentleman from a rural town outside Bloomington, IL looking for a bike. Really speaks to the need that we’re getting interest from an hour plus drive away. Or maybe my hyper-local bike-only travel mindset makes that distance seem more unreasonable than it is…
I was a bit more diligent this past week about tracking non-university visits to better reflect how many folks we’re helping.
The numbers:
Visitors: 33
Sales: $1,285.17
Bikes: 3 for $540
Membership: 7 for $210
Tires/tubes: 16 for $166.00
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
June 6, 2023 Green Research Committee Meeting 3
Present: Shari Effert-Fanta, Paul Foote, Jennifer Fraterrigo, Stephanie Hess, Daphne Hulse, Tim Mies, Lisa Moore, Jeremy Neighbors, Chad Stevens, Sabrina Summers
Absent: Mitchell Bryant, Maisie Kingren, Morgan White
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Stephanie Hess, Jeremy Neighbors, and Paul Foote collated document outlining the green research committee’s brainstorming efforts
The trees look great!
Green Research Committee,
Jeremy and I met with Susan, Ehab, and Madhu last week to give them an update on our progress over the past few weeks. I have attached the topics discussed. Here is a brief summary of that meeting and how we propose to move forward.
I will try to get something on the calendar soon.
Thanks,
Stephanie
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Hi Morgan,
I am helping Jeremy write the combined document and am looking for your perspectives on 4 main items in this list, do you have 30 minutes to chat about these between now and the end of the week?
Thank you
Paul Foote
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Hi Morgan,
My edits for the Research committee working documents and included and in green font.
Jeremy is going to combine these documents for our next meeting on Tuesday.
In addition to reviewing my edits in the brainstorming document would you please also comment on the greater campus collaboration sections in the draft document?
Many stakeholders already use siloed versions of this across campus, i.e. Provost’s Office, individual Colleges and Departments, Capital Planning, Deferred Maintenance and F&S Utilities and Energy Services along with others. A committee or team could pull all of these perspectives together and coordinate an overall metric system to accommodate the many priorities that each stakeholder values.
Core program to work with F&S, Department heads and PI’s to develop design criteria for closed loop cooling applications possibly utilizing the chilled water loop when feasible for process cooling etc…
Along with this from the Brainstorming document
Employ green lab director, industry standard range $65k to $85k and up depending experience level, or could hire an existing staff/faculty with a dual role position and similar qualifications with parallel work goals, outcomes or responsibilities and shared leadership and wage responsibility.
An example of a shared position would be their current wage plus an additional wage for the Green Research Position/Role and shared leadership for their reporting line. Many units have this on campus already.
Which answers this question at the bottom of the draft document
Thank you
Paul Foote
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Hi Jeremy,
I sent this to Morgan for feedback if she has time.
Please find my edits in the documents attached for the Green Research Committee.
Best
Paul Foote
All, We were closed yesterday for the Memorial Day holiday.
Last week I moved bikes out of the barn. We’re not 100% done but only have 25 or so bikes left.
This week I’ll move the rest of the bikes out of the barn and do some reorganizing to accommodate the influx. We also have a new staffer starting this week, so we’ll host a training session or two with them.
The numbers:
Visitors: 13
Sales: $1,069.50
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $530
Bikes (B-a-B): 2 for $110
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 11 for $86.75
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Good morning friend of the Reimagine Our Future competition,
We were wondering if you would like to continue to be a part of the competition for this upcoming school year.
If so, can you please fill out this google form?
We appreciate your support and hope you will join us for another year of this amazing competition inspiring undergrads to come up with sustainable solutions.
Thank you so much,
Allie Garlin
Reimagine Our Future Student Assistant
All, Last week we started our Summer Hours of M/W/F 2 – 6p. No complaints so far and if visit numbers are any indication, it’s the correct move. A lot fewer folks through the doors this time of year.
On Wednesday, with the help of a TBP volunteer we moved 10 or so bikes over to the Urbana space. A good small step, but still more bikes to clear. That’ll continue this week as well.
We’ve been selling bikes at a marginal clip but can’t have enough bikes ready come August so we’ll wrench on a few more this week during the down times.
The numbers:
Visitors: 22
Sales: $834.25
Bikes (refurb): 4 for $672
Memberships: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 1 for $8
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Please see attached the report from Integrating Green Technologies (IGT) regarding the project and results from the air quality assessment experiment conducted at the Astronomy Building in July 2022 as well as the Design Thinking Workshop held in November 2022.
On May 17, 2023 Morgan White, Daphne Hulse, and Marc Alexander met to discuss the future of Dump and Run.
F&S will need to provide public functions stuff for YMCA dump and run sale in the fall (use SSC funding - what is left)
We will need to create a MOU including what all this means for YMCA and long-term funding for their sale and our spring move out
Be sure to include that F&S will support the August sale in a public functions capacity, and supports the continued use of Stock Pavilion
Honor the partnership with the YMCA
MOU get marc’s perspective, morgan’s perspective, pete’s perspective, housing’s perspective
Be clear that there is a spring collection and august sale. They are separate events but all under the Dump and Run name.
Phrase example: “The Campus Bike Center is a collaboration between UIUC and the Bike Project of Champaign.”
Dump and Run: “Dump and Run is a collaboration between University YMCA and UIUC.”
Collaboration means that we sometimes work in different capacities as the university can be so much larger than a small organization
Daphne to draft a MOU for F&S-Housing and F&S-YMCA
“…Based on x y z background this is how we intend to move forward in our partnership over the years. One year time intervals automatically renewed each year unless a party decides something should change or cease…”
Recurring expenses could be argument among us internally to determine who should contribute (Morgan thinks this is a Pete question)
Student fees can go to anything
State funds to Housing is slightly limited
State funds to off campus entities is very limited
Timeline
Get the MOU signed and approved before move in weekend, so we can proclaim it the way we planned to
August for YMCA to rubber stamp it
As a general reference, it is good to get things written down and signed on a MOU with existing leadership who support these initiatives, so they continue even when leadership changes
Please follow the link below to read about the 2023 Arbor Day celebration, which was celebrated on the main quad.
https://fs.web.illinois.edu/Insider/2023/05/04/arbor-day-2023-on-the-main-quad/
The following is an email sent by John Marlin on May 16, 2023:
As most of you know I am retired from campus and involved in other off campus conservation activities. I will no longer be overseeing the Burrill Hall native planting.
During the pandemic, maintenance at campus native plantings by volunteers was not allowed. This coupled with very dry conditions caused deterioration of several sites including the one at Burrill Hall. F&S bought the woodland wildflowers for the planting and the Entomology Department installed them and provided some maintenance in conjunction with some students.
Department head May Berenbaum has put together an effort to revitalize the planting and has some limited funding for some maintenance of the native plants. F&S plans to make some changes in part of the area and the path is to be restored. Daniel Bush will initially work with the native plants and supervise any students.
In the past weeds removed from the site were placed by the two square concrete benches and I notified Ryan Welch who had the maintenance crew remove them. I assume a similar arrangement can be made possibly with Mr. Dalby as the contact.
This site was quite popular with people walking past and provided a good instructional resource, especially the area near the sidewalk. I hope that this will continue.
John C. Marlin
Dennis Dalby replied:
Thank you John,
It was nice meeting you today to gain some of your tips and input regarding the planting and upkeep of this area. I’ve been working with Ryan Welch and SIB to get this area brought back up to its current level and look forward to its improved upkeep with the discussions that we had today. We’ll be working with Ryan to have a wood chip path added once again and will add a few small plants of our own within the areas that we (MCB) will maintain. SIB will maintain the areas of the native plants. It will look and function much better once all is in place.
Thanks again for stopping by to share your experience,
Dennis
All, We received 8 bike donations directly from graduating students last week—easily a record during my tenure so far. Not sure how the word got out, but it was effective! Of course, I forgot to ask for a few photos for future marketing use, but one person did request a photo with her bike before she donated it.
I also worked with TBP volunteers to move a chunk of bikes out of storage, so we’re making headway on that. But still a good number of bikes left, too, which I’ll continue to work on going forward.
This week we start our summer hours of M/W/F 2 – 6p.
The numbers:
Visitors: 49
Sales: $868.25
Bikes: 3 for $570
Memberships: 4 for $120
Tires/tubes: 5 for $36
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator