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  1. Phase 3 (Inventory) Complete

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

    On 07/29/26, Phase 3 (Inventory) was completed. This year, 254 bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters were inventoried by Sarthak, Frida, and Emma. As of 08/01/26, four people have began the retrieval process. As a reminder, any impounded bicycle that remains after September 25, 2026 will be considered donated to the university and will be donated to the Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign.

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    "No" in this graph is a count of bicycles marked as abandoned in Phase 2 that did not get picked up by the Parking Department to be inventoried, likely because they were moved.

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  2. Survey Block Map

    Associated Project(s): 
    Bike Audit

    From 7/29 to 7/31, Frida continued working on the report by completing sections for which sufficient information was available. Additionally, Frida discussed the survey block map with Sarthak and Emma to determine which blocks were necessary to observe and which could be excluded from the data collection process.

  3. Report Drafting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Bike Audit

    From 7/21 to 7/24, Frida drafted the initial report, covering the report outline, project introduction (including the project background, goals and objectives, and scope), literature review on the importance of bicycling on campus, and a description of the study area (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 

  4. Phase 3 (Inventory) Started

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

    On Monday, 07/20/2026, Sarthak, Frida, and Emma began to inventory the abandoned bicycles collected by University Parking.

    Throughout the next week, the team will work on inventorying all bicycles brought in by Parking. 

    The deadline to retrieve your impounded bicycle is September 25, 2026. Find out how to begin the retrieval process on the Bike at Illinois website: https://bike.illinois.edu/resources/bicycle-roundup/

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  7. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - July 9, 2026

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Attendees

    • Michael McKelvey
    • Quinn Connolly
    • Sarthak Prasad
    • Miriam Keep
    • Christina Tran
    • Bridgette Moen
    • Betsy Ruckman

    Discussion

    • Betsy & Bridgette: hard to find things in the project hierarchy (based on where someone entering a project placed it; don't always find things where you expect)
    • Betsy: things I'd like to see
      • Advanced search, e.g. by theme(s)
      • Keyword tagging
    • "Project Family" terminology is confusing
      • Quinn votes to keep it, even if we rename it
    • Maps
      • Would like to embed existing ArcGIS maps (embed code + title and description) on Project pages
      • Example of GIS embeds: City of Champaign GIS
      • Michael: could embed individual maps; not sure if we can use ArcGIS for mapping across the site in the way we do with our current maps
    • Bridgette: who should go through and review existing projects?
      • Quinn: I'm taking the first pass, then will ask teams to review
    • Bridgette: how are we handling past projects?
      • Quinn: bit of a case-by-case basis, focusing on 2026 iCAP projects visible, but also leaving big infrastructure projects visible. Projects from past iCAPs will still be in there, but will not be as prominent

  10. 2026 Undergrad Dump & Run Statistics

    Associated Project(s): 
    Dump and Run

    The total count for 2026 was 68 gaylord boxes and 97 loose pieces (furniture, etc) collected from 8 pods across campus during the week of May 11-16, 2026. Based on average pallet weights from previous years (150-250 pounds), we estimate that 15,000 pounds of donations were diverted.

    Donations were all picked up by Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries and taken to the Champaign store for redistribution. No other nonprofit partners participated this year in part because there was no full-time Zero Waste Coordinator between fall 2025 and May 2026.

    The highest-generation pods this year were ISR, Sherman, Hopkins, and Barton. Allen Hall, PAR, and FAR also did well. LAR was difficult to access with a box truck and had relatively low generation.

     

     

     

     

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  13. Perception-based Survey Development

    Associated Project(s): 
    Bike Audit

    From 6/29 to 7/2, Frida added pictures to the perception-based survey to provide additional context and support informed decision-making during data collection. Additionally, Frida created a survey block map to divide the campus area into manageable data collection areas and identify priority and non-priority blocks to guide the analysis of collected data.

  15. Weekly Update -- Bike Sales & Demand

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center

    All,

    Uneventful week. Made some progress on emptying out last year’s batch of abandoned bikes, which I will continue to work on this week, as I am able with the extreme weather.

     

    We’ll be closed on Friday in observance of 4th of July, so a short week but we stand to get a few more bikes fixed up for sale.

     

    Tonight is the Bike Project Members’ Meeting, which I will attend.

     

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 30
    Sales: $1,335.50

    Bikes (refurb): 3 for $675

    Bikes (B-a-B): 2 for $110

    Memberships: 7 for $110

    Tires/tubes: 12 for $129

     

    Thanks!

  16. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - June 29, 2026

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Attendees

    • Michael McKelvey
    • Quinn Connolly
    • Sarthak Prasad
    • Paul Foote
    • Miriam Keep
    • Christina Tran

    Discussion

    • Quinn recommends a new meeting schedule: weekly meeting for core group working on redesign (larger group optional), monthly for larger group
    • Miriam will put Michael in contact with April re: iSEE site embeds from iCAP Portal
    • Consider how we maintain information to minimize duplicattion of effort - if someone else already has data on their site, link to their site rather than also putting it up on ours
    • Need periodic reviews of our site's information. Auto-detecting dead links would be really helpful.

  17. Phase 2 (Checking Tags) Complete

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

    From 06/24/26 to 06/26/26 Sarthak, Frida, and Emma checked all previously tagged bicycles for tags, and updated their abandonment status. In total, 310 bikes were marked as abandoned, and 422 were not. In the next week, the Parking Department will remove the locks and relocate the bicycles to F&S's storage units. 

    Phase 3, the inventory of abandoned bicycles, will begin on Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 (07/07/26).

    Bar graph of bike counts

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  18. Perception-based Survey Development

    Associated Project(s): 
    Bike Audit

    From 6/22 to 6/26, Frida revised the perception-based survey questions based on the feedback from Sarthak and Emma. She also reorganized the questions based on an academic journal she found. After finalizing the questions, Frida transferred the questions to the Survey123 application, making the survey accessible on mobile devices.

    Next, Frida developed scoring system for perception-based survey to calculate the Bikeability Index (BI). The scoring system assigns a maximum score of 3 or 5 and minimum score of -5, 0, or 1 to each question. Each question was also assigned a high, medium, and low priority based on its urgency and relevance to bicycling perception.

  20. Sustainability Council Meeting 06/12/2026

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability Council

    The Sustainability Council met on June 12, 2026. The primary agenda items included: 

     

    1. Benchmarking sustainability progress at Illinois to peer institutions

    2. Student accomplishments and priorities

    3. Establishing a process for engaging colleges to collaboratively set tailored sustainability goals

    4. Curtailing energy supply to campus 

     

    The slide deck is attached.

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