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  5. iCAP Education Team October Meeting 2025

    Associated Project(s): 
    Education iCAP Team
    Sustainability at Career Fairs
    Sustainability Literacy Assessment

    The iCAP Education Team met on Friday, October 3rd from 12-1 pm via Teams. This was the first team meeting of the semester, so we began with introductions of each of the members on the team. Then we reviewed the iCAP charges for the upcoming year as well as the new iCAP pathways. The meeting minutes are attached. 

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  6. iCAP Engagement Team October 2025 Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Engagement iCAP Team
    Sustainability Engagement and Outreach

    The iCAP Engagement Team met on Thursday, October 2nd, from 4pm-5pm via Microsoft Teams. First, the team reviewed and refined this year's priorities, then moved into a discussion on ways to share these initiatives with the campus community in a digestible way.

    The meeting minutes are attached.

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  8. Zipcar Wants to Find "Students With Drive"

    Associated Project(s): 
    Support Zipcar in Champaign-Urbana

    Zipcar is launching a nationwide competition to let student groups compete to earn funding for scholarships, operations, and driving credit. Zipcar is looking for groups to share how they are driving societal change on campus and in their community through their mission. The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 17th.

    The original event post can be found here.

     

  9. Weekly Update -- Abandoned Bikes Retrieval & Sales

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center
    Collection and Donation of Abandoned Bicycles

    Email from Jacob Benjamin:

    All,

    Last week was the conclusion of the bike retrieval period for abandoned bikes.  We got three claims in the 11th hour, which was good. I’ll begin organizing the leftovers this week, with help from my staff. We are critically low on some used parts, so this is fortuitous timing.

    Elsewhere, I have two new staffers starting this week—just in time for October!

     

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 94
    Sales: $1,319.25
    Bikes (refurb): 1 for $100
    Memberships: 24 for $720
    Tires/tubes: 28 for $153

    Thanks!

  10. Land and Water Team September Monthly Meeting Minutes and Notes

    Associated Project(s): 
    Land and Water iCAP Team
    Prairie Restoration at Florida & Orchard
    Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

    The land and water team met for the first time of the academic year on Friday, September 26, 2025, from 2-3 PM on Teams with their new chair, Bridgette Moen. The team discussed when the upcoming iCAP 2025 will be released. The team also discussed project updates from the summer and refreshed the team objectives, goals, and current projects. The minutes and notes from the meeting are included here. 

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  11. iCAP Transportation Team September 23rd Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Transportation iCAP Team
    Reduce Emissions from Travel

    The iCAP Transportation Team met on Tuesday, September 23rd, from 2:00-3:00pm to go over goals for the year. We are planning to submit two recommendations within the next month, one for EV charging for micromobility devices on campus and one regarding a change for ChromeRiver, the emission reporter for travel. 

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  12. Illini Lights Out 9/19/2025

    Associated Project(s): 
    Illini Lights Out

    At this Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 2011 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $305.96 in energy costs. This also prevented 2.93 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 330 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact! 

  13. 9/23/25 Call Recap -- Veo Parking & Gameday

    Associated Project(s): 
    Bike Share with Veo

    From Aaron Madrid:

    Afternoon all,
    Thank you for your time today. I just wanted to recap a few action items and next steps from our call. 
    1. Aaron will reach out to the parent who emailed in and offer to have a conversation and see if we can find some additional solutions for their student.

    2. Aaron will coordinate meeting between geofence team, operations team, and Sarthak to discuss parking locations outside of bike racks in the coming week(s)
    3. Gameday Geofence Activation
        a. Geofence will activate as a "No Parking Zone" 4 hours ahead of kick-off.
        b. Geofence will transition to a "No Ride Zone" 2 hours ahead of kick-off.
        c. Geofence will deactivate 90 minutes after the conclusion of the game.

    I think this will position us to ensure we're maximizing the access for the community to gameday activities while reducing the number of errant vehicles.

    Let me know if there are any questions or concerns regarding the items we discussed on our call today.

  14. iCAP Portal Migration discussion - September 23, 2025

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Attendees: Quinn Connolly, Sarthak Prasad, Miriam Keep, Morgan White, Christina Tran, Michael McKelvey

    Discussion

    • Discussed card sorting activity
      • Mainly figuring out the structure of the site
      • Granularity - not at the level of Project page layout, more site navigation structure
      • What to keep / not keep - what shows publicly and how do we vet that? What milestones do we post/publish?
    • Discussed migration process
      • May wish to auto-hide everything by default, then go through and review items for public display (Projects, Project Updates)
      • Make sure embed code URLs don't change!
      • Will try to keep URLs the same as much as possible to avoid dead links
      • Transition from old site to new site should be seamless - will forward old domain to new domain once ready to go live

  16. Light the Night 2025 Leftover Light Count

    Associated Project(s): 
    Light the Night

    Light the Night 2025 was a success, students and community members alike biked to various stations on campus to receive free bike lights.

     

    Bike Lights Remaining:

    Location

    Sets Brought

    Red Lights Leftover

    White Lights Leftover

    Green & Lincoln

    150

    37

    36

    Alma Mater

    400

    160

    166

    Hallene Gateway

    250

    95

    92

    Ike

    200

    45

    46

     

  17. iCAP Portal Strategic discussion - September 16, 2025

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Attendees: Tiffany Jolley, Elizabeth Murphy, Miriam Keep, Morgan White, Christina Tran, Michael McKelvey

    Discussion

    • Discuss strategic plan for iCAP Portal content (as opposed to day-to-day discussions)
    • How do we move forward into new branding?
    • Discussed public vs. private information.
    • Discussed iSEE and F&S roles
    • Discussed Christina's power user card sorting activity - scheduled a meeting for a card sorting activity
    • Discussed Google Analytics - Michael added Tiffany to iCAP Portal's Google Analytics

  18. Weekly Update -- Light the Night & Sales

    Associated Project(s): 
    Light the Night
    Campus Bike Center

    Email from Jacob Benjamin:

    Last Wednesday was Bike To Work Day! It was a success. Had good weather and good turn outs at the stations I visited.

    Light The Night is tomorrow evening. Should be good weather—if warm—for that, too!

     

    We are busy but it’s not mayhem anymore—that’s a plus!

     

    We are low on used tires, as is common this time of year. I’ll roll over to the Urbana shop to see if they have any to spare.

    The numbers:

    Sales: $1,735.35
    Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50

    Memberships: 38 for $1140
    Tires/tubes: 31 for $286

  19. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - September 16, 2025

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Agenda

    • Discuss webform roles
    • Discuss sending message to current iCAP Portal users
    • Discuss Christina's navigation menu options
    • Discuss items remaining from last meeting

    Discussion

    • Discuss webform roles (e.g. Suggestions)
      • Roles which should have edit access: (iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, iCAP Reviewers, iCAP Clerks?)
      • Roles which should have delete access: (iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, iCAP Reviewers, iCAP Clerks?)
    • Discuss sending message to current iCAP Portal users informing them to avoid posting emails on the iCAP Portal
      • Define "current users" - e.g. accounts created in past few months + anyone who's made an iCAP Portal addition or edit since the beginning of the calendar year?
      • Send email through website or manually?
    • Navigation menu options Christina shared via email:
      • Content Audit: With this method, I will take inventory of all of iCAP's content types, map how they are currently being used, and suggest a navigation structure based off of my findings. Then, we can review my suggestions as a group!
      • Power User Card-Sorting Workshop: I will set up an online workspace with a list of cards and facilitate a 30-60 minute session for this group to collaboratively organize these cards into categories. The cards will list out all of the iCAP portal's content, but the during the session we can also create new cards if we want to merge or redefine content types/categories.
      • Public User Card-Sorting: I will set up a number of online card-sorting workspaces with instructions to send out to public users. Each public user will organize the cards in a way that makes the most sense to them. Then, I will review their feedback and present a recommended navigation structure based on the public's input.
      • Review Quinn's Recommended Navigation: Since Quinn is already a power user, her ideas are a great starting point! I can review her recommended navigation structure and see if I have any further suggestions based on usability guidelines. I can also facilitate a discussion for this group to review Quinn's ideas, make suggestions, incorporate feedback, and go from there.
    • Discuss metric naming convention (see Discussion about Metrics - May 19, 2025)
    • Discuss 2025 Objectives dashboard (add in September, start displaying in October) - see "Adding Key Objectives" private file under Sustainability iCAP Portal project
    • (Continue discussion) New iCAP Team (Sustainable Buildings) being formed - discuss what that looks like on the iCAP Portal

    TODOs

    • TBD

  20. Beautiful Weather and Lots of Station Locations!

    Associated Project(s): 
    C-U Bike to Work Day
    • Alma Mater Plaza
    • Campus Bike Center
    • Campus Recreation Center East
    • College of Veterinary Medicine – Lot F27
    • Disability Resources and Educational Services
    • I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center – Intersection of First Street and St. Mary's Road
    • Orchard Downs
    • Siebel Center for Computer Science – Intersection of Main Street and Mathews Avenue

    map of campus showing multiple locations for bike welcome stations

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