Meeting 10/29/2021
Present: Anisha, Ananya, Pooja and Stacy Gloss
The project idea that the students would like to pursue is Making connections between pollution and people – focused on smart phones, tablets, computer e-waste generated by students. The student group may consider various technologies in their project: laptops, gaming consoles, wearable tech.
They will research:
10/25/2021 11:00 am
Present: Brent Lewis, Betsy Liggett, Lisa Merrifield, Stacy Gloss
Updates from Stacy:
Updates from Lisa and Betsy:
Resilience Work Group Meeting 10/21/2021
Present: Morgan White, Meredith Moore, Stacy Gloss
Project Management:
Stacy will start keeping track of resilience projects in an excel Gantt chart to be able to show high-level progress. Project progress will be tracked as “not begun, just starting, in progress, finishing up, done”
Stacy showed changes she made to the Resilience box.com folder by adding Objective folders.
Project Updates:
Students on a Design for America team met with Stacy Gloss on 10/19 to discuss ideas for an environmental justice theme project to be completed in May, 2022. A follow up meeting is scheduled for the next week.
Resilience Meeting Notes 10/15/2021 for meeting between Stacy Gloss, Meredith Moore, and Morgan White
iCAP 8.6 Vision Zero Meeting
10/13/2021
Stacy Gloss and Sarthak Prasad met to discuss the Vision Zero objective. Sarthak will email Vision Zero for a meeting to ask questions about a campus designation. Sarthak will also follow up with the Housing Director about a request to develop a Safety Village / Traffic Garden project in partnership with Cynthia Hoyle at MTD for children to learn about bike and pedestrian safety. The project site is proposed for the abandoned streets on the corner of Florida and Race, adjacent to Orchard Downs campus property.
ICAP Objective 8.4 Background Discussion between Stacy Gloss and Ximing Cai 9/28/2021
Related Tasks and Deliverables
Green Infrastructure Initial Meeting 9/29/2021 9:00 am
Present: Brent Lewis, Betsy Liggett, Stacy Gloss
ABOUT
iCAP 8.6 Vision Zero Meeting 9/29/2021
Present: Sarthak Prasad, Stacey DeLorenzo, Stacy Gloss
Background: 8.6 [F&S] Support Vision Zero as a county-wide goal for safe and sustainable transportation. Coordinate with Professor Benekohal, the City of Urbana Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC), and F&S Transportation Demand Management to identify actions needed to support Vision Zero Deliverable: white paper identifying key steps needed by 11/15/21
10/5 Carbon Offsets Meeting: Stacy Gloss and Eric Green briefly discussed Carbon Offsets. An intern or 2 will be lined up for the Spring who could potentially work on a literature review as related to this objective.
10/5/2021
Present: Stacy Gloss and Eric Green
Background:
8.5 [iSEE] By FY23, collaborate with colleges and community groups to inventory existing certification opportunities for green jobs and identify gaps.
Student Meeting: Design for America Team Meeting 10/1/2021
Present: Pooja Tetali, Ananya Barman, Kosh Raghavarapu, Anisha Narain, Meredith Moore, Eric Greene, Stacy Gloss
About DFA:
Meredith Moore, Morgan White and Stacy Gloss met for the weekly check-in on resilience work.
Agenda:
Notes:
Resilience Work Weekly Check-In
09/23/2021, 2:00 PM
Attendees: Morgan White, Meredith Moore, Stacy Gloss
Updates
Stacy provided an overview of her activities for the previous week including
iCAP Portal
"What is the status of the city of Urbana’s community solar array at the old city landfill known as Solar Star Urbana Landfill LLC affiliated with Nexamp? Will the subscription to the community solar project begin this year?"
9/17/2021, 2:15 PM
Attendees: Morgan White, Meredith Moore, Stacy Gloss
Summary:
Stacy, Meredith and Morgan met for the first time together since Stacy was appointed and started work on 9/16/2021. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the information and resources needed for Stacy to start working on resilience activities in the scope work. We reviewed Stacy’s job description regarding activities for the next 6 months and related deliverables. See attached job description.
Agreements:
From: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-...
The company also announced its next phase of coal plant closures in Illinois and Ohio with a combined capacity of more than 6.8 GW, by 2027. The plan has the following timeline:
