EnterpriseWorks at Research Park (60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820. Phone: 217-333-8324) was added as a  Shield pick-up location. Stacey DeLorenzo dropped off 50 Shields at the location to be picked up by bicycle users. This location will be available for Shield pick up from September 8, 2020.

Leonhard Recreation Center (2307 Sangamon Dr, Champaign, IL 61821. Phone: (217) 398-2550) was added as the Shield pick-up location. Stacey DeLorenzo dropped off 100 Shields at the location to be picked up by bicycle users. This location will be available for Shield pick up from August 24, 2020.

Campus Bike Center (51 E Gregory Dr., Champaign, IL 61820. Phone number: 217-300-4638) was added as the Shield pick-up location. Sarthak Prasad dropped off 250 Shields at the location to be picked up by bicycle users. This location will be available for Shield pick up from August 24, 2020. Due to the pandemic, the CBC will only accept visitors who make an appointment beforehand, so please call in ahead to more information. The Shields will be distributed at the front desk of the CBC's new location.

We will replensih the Shields as needed.

The first 529 Shield was handed out to a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on August 3, 2020!

Savoy Rec Center (402 Graham Dr, Savoy, IL 61874. Phone number: (217) 359-3550) was added as the Shield pick-up location. Stacey DeLorenzo dropped off 100 Shields at the location to be picked up by bicycle users. 

We will replensih them as needed.

Shelby Keye became the first person to register their bicycle on University's new national bike registration system through Project 529!

The Purchase Order to purchase the Community-Plan of the Project 529's bicycle registration system was approved and the contract was sent to the vendor via email (due to the pandemic) on May 1, 2020. The contract would begin on July 1, 2020 and end on June 30, 2021. Sarthak Prasad will work with the F&S IT department to plan and prepare to use the new system and the bicycle registration fee.

The trial period for the Project 529 system will end on June 30, 2020.

Following the CTAC meeting on March 27, 2020, the Committee approved the proposal of adding a one-time $10 bicycle registration fee per bicycle.

Attended by: Sarthak Prasad (organizer, F&S), Morgan White (F&S), Stacey DeLorenzo (F&S), Marty Paulins (Parking), Gary Williamson (Parking), Bryan Johnson (Housing), Barbara Robbins (UIPD), Tara Hurless (UIPD), Jake Benjamin (Campus Bike Center), Alana Harris (called in, Campus Rec), John Lantz (called-in, Office of the Dean of Students), Ben LeRoy (City of Champaign), Lily Wilcock (City of Urbana), Jeff Yockey (Champaign County Bikes), Donna Williams (Called-in, Project 529)

Sarthak Prasad organized this meeting on January 31st from 2-3 pm to discuss Bicycle Registration using Project 529. We started off with the introductions, and Sarthak briefly explained the agenda for this meeting.

We talked about the current bicycle registration system for the University and both the cities, and the need to bring a new registration system to the university and the community. City of Urbana has a paper based bicycle registration system and City of Champaign does not currently have a bicycle registration program. We discussed the potential benfits for having Project 529 as the national bike registry vendor. Some of these benefits include:

• Project 529 is a National Bike Registry with nearly 1.5 million bicycles registered
• Bike theft recovery
• Consolidated system - one system for all
• Bicycle safety and enforcement
• Gather numbers
• Ability to send push notification - information on street/sidewalk/bike path closure, information on bicycle events in the community
• Information on any group rides in the community
• Project 529 will help enter the serial numbers in their system for the impounded bicycles or during bicycle round-up
• Admins can contact the users using the unique Shield number

Following this, Sarthak talked about the costs that will be incurred to bring this system, and went over the Quote (attached) with the group. We (university) have started the Purchase Order process, and is in progress. To start with, the University will pay the entire quoted amount (including the Secondary accounts) to bring the system here. Sarthak has asked the Cities to contribute the Secondary Account funds. This system will also include the Village of Savoy, but since the population is much less compared to the University and the cities, Project 529 will not charge a Secondary Account fee for Savoy. This will mean that there can be administrators from the University, Urbana, Champaign, and Savoy. These admins will have access to the program (not separarte programs for each unit).

The University is also considering adding a $10 registration fee, but we trying to get approvals on that. The funds from this registration fee will go towards the bicycle programs in the university and community. Sarthak, Morgan, and Stacey will discuss with the Cities on how to distribute the funds.

Facilites & Services Transportation Demand Management (F&S TDM) at the University is purchasing the Community Plan from Project 529, and will lead this project. We would appreciate the support from all of departments involved.

Sarthak briefly explained the implementation plan, which is to launch a Pilot program immediately after the Spring Break, look for what works and what needs work, right up a report by the end of June, and launch the program to the public starting in July 2020. Following this, Donna from Project 529 briefly explained how the system works and some of the existing features. We also discussed how to add new features as well.

In the final 15 minutes, we asked Project 529 some questions about their system.

Ben LeRoy and Lily Wilcock will get back to Sarthak Prasad about funding the Secondary Accounts fee.