Agenda

• Michael's updates
  • Archived projects:
    • Added link to Archived Projects on Projects page
    • Hid archived projects from Theme page hierarchical listings
    • Left archived projects in Project Family sidebar section, for now - may revisit that decision in the future
  • Removed Project Status from hierarchical listing on theme pages and full project hierarchy listing
  • Expand/Collapse buttons added to Project Updates listings. See examples:
    • All Project Updates
    • Project Updates search results
    • Project Updates for collection: Monarch Butterfly projects
    • Projects Updates for Sustainability iCAP Portal
    • Projects Updates for key objective: 2.1 Energy Planning Document
    • Projects Updates for theme: Education
    • Projects Updates for place: Campus Instructional Facility
  • SSC Project embed code is working on SSC site!
  • Resolved an issue with some information connected to Projects (locations, funding info) and Metrics (targets, tracking) losing their connections to those projects.
    • Information still in database, so I was able to restore connections
    • It took some careful and tedious effort to track this down and restore the connections.
• Google Analytics numbers drop
  • Steeper than others have experienced
  • Probably some combination of less traffic and old analytics possibly not excluding bots/crawlers as effectively
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

• Morgan went through full list of projects to find ones to archive
  • Need to have a larger conversation about what archiving does at some point
• Morgan's intern Zach is doing a couple things:
  • Filling in recent years of campus water data
  • Looking for duplicate metrics
  • Will mark duplicate metrics as duplicate, then work with Michael on deleting them
• Linking SSC Projects to iCAP Portal projects
  • Quinn and Helen working on making sure all connections between SSC Projects and iCAP Portal projects are included
  • What to do about SSC Projects without an existing iCAP Portal project?
  • Quinn: 70-80% of SSC Projects have a direct or indirect connection to an iCAP Portal project; a few are really hard to find a connection
  • Morgan: every SSC Project should be connected to an iCAP Portal project. Quinn will keep working on connections, then this summer we can figure out what to do about the outliers
  • Would be helpful to add column sorting to SSC Projects table
  • SSC Projects listing goes back to 2008; aren't there projects from earlier than 2008?
    • That's all Helen had access to in SSC's master spreadsheet
    • Didn't include cancelled projects
    • Morgan will look for info about projects before 2008
    • Sheri may also have info about those projects
    • Some info about older SSC projects may be available in Project Updates (e.g. Projects Updates for Wind Turbine Generator(s) on South Farms)
• Recommendations:
  • Morgan will have a student work on adding Recommendations
  • Once they're complete, we should remove the manually maintained recommendation links in Projects
  • Next step: show Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages; Michael will work on a draft version to share
• Going through project hierarchy: adding/updating information to descriptions for Header projects
• Google Analytics numbers drop
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics

TODOs

• ✅ SSC Projects:
  • ✅ Add column click sorting to SSC Projects table
  • ✅ Add ability to add/edit description to SSC Projects listing page
• ✅ Show Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages
• Investigate Google Analytics for April 3 - large spike in visits/users
• Investigate how to hide Project Status from certain projects which aren't actually projects - they're meant to act as parents for other projects (remaining from last meeting)
  • e.g. add a "Header" Project Status which hides the status

Read this announcement online - 
 

Join the celebration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, by biking around campus, grabbing a free set of lights, or registering your bicycle!
As part of the university’s Earth Month events, the first-ever Bike for Earth Day will feature three welcoming centers open from 3 to 7 p.m. at:

• Alma Mater Plaza 
• Hallene Gateway (intersection of Illinois Street and Lincoln Avenue)
• Activities & Recreation Center (east side driveway)

      🎉 Bike Light Giveaway included! 🎉

Check out the above link for more details

Sarthak asked campus communication officers to post digital signs about Bike for Earth Day 2025 on their departmental screens, to promote the event, until Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Attached is the promotional image.

The Sustainability Sub-Council met on April 10, 2025. The primary agenda items included: 

• Energy Performance Contract - College of ACES
• Targets for the next iCAP
• DIA-specific objectives for the next iCAP

The slide deck and meeting minutes are attached.

Please see attached the list of avenues used to promote Bike for Earth Day 2025

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

On Thursday was another installment of our instructional class, which went well. Friday was our first Bike Center on the Quad event, which also went well. We also received our first end-of-semester/graduation donation.

We have a handful of bikes in the queue which we’ll finalize/safety check this week.

The numbers:

Visitors: 39
Sales: $327
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 4 for $25

This month, the Land and Water team had their monthly meeting on Friday, April 4, at 9:00 am on a Teams video call. Linked below is the meeting agenda with the meeting notes from what the team discussed. Additionally, a recording of the meeting is linked in the agenda. 

The Energy Team had their April meeting on Thursday, April 3rd, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. The main discussion points included gathering contact information for building managers and finalizing interview questions for the Building Occupancy Pilot Program. The team also reviewed student availability and finalized email communications. Although the meeting was relatively short, significant progress was made. The meeting minutes are attached!