The Land & Water iCAP team met on Teams from 1-2 PM on Friday, May 3rd. We reviewed the 2020 objectives and proposed 2025 objectives. Documentation of can be found in Land and Water iCAP 2025 folder of Box linked here: https://uofi.app.box.com/folder/250884767635

Agenda

• Quinn’s updates
  • Working on updating the portal during the summer
  • Created three tracking sheets that I will share
    • Lists include In Progress and Ongoing projects, and metrics
    • Used Power Search to generate the lists and get the extra info!
  • Have already reached out to folks and received updates for a few In Progress projects
• Power Search:
  • Added Power Search page to pull together the various searching and filtering mechanisms currently available on the iCAP Portal site (and used it to group some of these searches on the iCAP Administration Options page)
  • Added CSV download options to Power Search: Files and Power Search: Projects
• Recommendations:
  • See Recommendations Administration page for links to add new Recommendations and Recommendation Updates, as well as searchable/filterable listings of Recommendations and Recommendation Updates
  • New blocks available on project pages, at the bottom of the left-hand sidebar:
    • Recommendations are listed on any projects they're associated with
    • Recommendations are listed on any projects their associated iCAP Team is associated with
    • iCAP Teams are listed on any projects they're associated with
  • New iCAP Team content type
    • Currently used in Recommendations (for grouping recommendations by associated team) and Project Updates (for assigning Pending Tasks)
• SSC Projects:
  • See SSC Projects Administration page for links to add new SSC Projects as well as searchable/filterable listings of SSC Projects.
• Archiving projects
  • Instead of adding an Archived/Active state checkbox, I propose we use the built-in "Published" checkbox.
    • Pros:
      • Built-in, already exists
      • No need to update every single display of projects - only displaying published projects already
    • Cons:
      • Usually an unpublished node would indicate draft content (since we don't have a workflow that requires draft approval, using the Published checkbox seems reasonable)

Discussion/Decisions

• Dark Mode??

TODOs

• ✔️ Clerks should be able to view Pending Tasks
• Archived projects - what happens to Project Updates?

Miriam Keep, Codie Sterner, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss progress on embedding projects from the iCAP Portal on the SSC website.

Discussion

• Michael's questions:
  • Ok to move SSC Projects to full-blown content type?
  • Entering funding details options:
    1. Enter details for each status (Requested, Approved, Allocated, Spent, Relinquished)?
       • Pros: can enter very detailed info which could be useful for complicated situations
       • Cons: more laborious to enter
    2. Enter broader details directly into SSC Project record in a single field for each status (less detail allowed, simpler
       • Pros: much simpler to enter
       • Cons: cannot enter very detailed info; may lose ability to represent multiple funding sources for a project (depending on setup)
  • Do SSC Projects ever have multiple funding sources in a single semester?
  • What's the "Other" funding source? (see 2009-2010)
  • Combine Semester and Year into one field? Or leave separate?
• Sheri: can we automate entry of data?
  • Michael: this might be possible, we can look into this in the future

Decisions

• SSC Project full-blown content type is a go!
• Prefer option to enter detailed funding info
• Can ignore "Other" funding source, it was used to trick Tableau into displaying funding info correctly
• Leave Semester and Year separate

Timeline

• Meet next week for final discussions
• Have students start to enter information in the following weeks

TODOs

• SSC Projects:
  • ✔️ Add Image Gallery
  • ✔️ Show Image Gallery in main section
  • ✔️ Move map to sidebar
  • ✔️ Use Featured Image from SSC Project rather than associated iCAP Portal Project
  • ✔️ Add Award Expiration date field
  • ✔️ Merge Active and Closed into SSC Project Status field (Active, Closed)
• Embed:
  • ✔️ Change Project Category to text instead of icon
  • ✔️ Show Semester filter only if Year selected (lower priority, can wait until other changes are done)

2024 Dump & Run

Apr 12, 2024 | 9:36 am

Recycling containers will be available at the end-of-the-semester to take unneeded, gently used personal items.

Related Pages

• Waste Management & Recycling
• Zero Waste
• Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP)

Links

Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) Information

Waste Transfer Station Tour Form

Documents

2024 Dump & Run Location Map

The university’s end-of-the-semester Dump & Run ® event is expanding to multiple campus locations to make it easier for students and others at the U of I to donate unwanted personal items (no university property will be allowed) at the end of the semester and prevent useful belongings from reaching the landfill prematurely.

From Monday, May 6 to Sunday, May 12, eight 20’ x 8’mobile storage units will be placed near campus residence halls where students can put surplus or gently used items into bulk boxes inside the containers. Each day, the containers will be open for donations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (see the container locations, schedule, and approved items list below). Throughout the week, the donations will be picked up by local participating charities Salt & Light, Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County, the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, and Goodwill.

CONTAINER LOCATIONS

• Barton Hall/Flagg Hall/Weston Hall/Student Dining and Residential Programs Building
• Florida Avenue Residence Halls (Oglesby Hall)
• Hopkins Hall
• Illinois Street Residence Halls (Wardall Hall)
• Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls (Allen Hall)*
• Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls (Babcock Hall)
• Sherman Hall

ACCEPTED ITEMS*

*Please note the transfer of university property will not be allowed. The management or disposal of university-procured items must be in accordance with all applicable State and U of I policies and guidelines (e.g., FABweb and the University Surplus Warehouse). For more information about those processes and operations visit https://www.obfs.uillinois.edu/equipment-management/surplus-warehouse-operations/.

• Accessories (handbags, belts, scarves, hats, etc.)
• Appliances – small to medium size (coffee makers, kettles, mini-fridges, microwaves, etc.)
• Books
• Collectibles/antiques
• Computers and equipment (printers, cables, speakers, hard drives, monitors, etc.)
• Clothing (rips and tears are okay – but must be washed)
• Electronics
• Food (nonperishable, unopened – even if past the expiration date)
• Furniture
• Housewares (dishes, mirrors, decorative accessories, etc.)
• Jewelry
• Linens
• Lamps
• Multimedia (DVDs, CDs, records, etc.)
• Shoes
• TVs (flat screen only)

PROHIBITED ITEMS

• Broken items (appliances, computers and equipment, furniture, housewares) etc.  – anything that is not really in selling condition
• Perishable or opened foods and beverages
• Mattresses or box springs
• Cleaning products
• Hazardous materials (paint, aerosols, chemicals, alcohols)

The Sustainability Council met on April 26, 2024. The primary agenda items included: 

• Updates
  • Green Research Program
  • Solar Farm 3
  • Plastic Waste Reduction in Housing and Athletics
• Student Group Activities
• Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP)
  • Progress & Challenges

The slide deck is attached.

The 2024 Arbor Day celebration was unfortunately canceled due to rain.  Please check back for a link to our Arbor Day Celebration Website.

Attached is information about the senior design project presentations scheduled for next Tuesday.

The project that we have been helping with is scheduled to present at 8:30 on Tuesday in 4100 LuMEB, Abbott Enerdrape System.

Mike Larson

Lowell Miller is updating a scope change for this grant to look at acquiring a machine to recycle 3d prints and other plastic that can then repurpose those materials into 3d printer filaments.

Please see attached the iWG meeting notes from the meeting held on April 19, 2024. The following items were discussed:

• Energy recommendation under development, “Energy Efficiency and Conservation Funding for Infrastructure and Mechanical System Modernization”
• iCAP challenges and opportunities

Michael McKelvey, Miriam Keep, and Sarthak Prasad met to discuss modifications to how projects are associated with recommendations and whether there are any modifications we'd like to make to the current setup.

Discussion/Decisions

• Recommendations:
  • Leave Associated Project(s) field as is - optional, allowing multiple projects to be associated
  • Add new field linked to a project where future updates can be found (naming it is tricky - "Further updates"? "See further updates"? "See additional updates"? "See ongoing updates"?) - optional, allows only 1 project
• iCAP Teams:
  • Add Associated Project(s) field - optional, allows multiple project to be associated
  • On any projects associated with an iCAP Team, show all the recommendations for that team (will be used on iCAP Team projects)

TODOs

• ✔️ Add new Further Updates field to Recommendation content type
• ✔️ Add new Associated Project(s) field to iCAP Team content type
• ✔️ Add new Recommendations listing to projects associated with an iCAP Team