Hi Todd & Mark,

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out & reconnect on the topic of the black, metal outdoor bins. I believe we have 18 identified locations approved by Brent Lewis ready to be installed as soon as the shops are able (locations attached) – these all require concrete poured. We then have  ~56 more stored primarily in the Buenting Barn that we have not yet identified locations for, but will very shortly. Some of them will require concrete and others will not. We have WO# 10814481 for this project.  Pete is hoping to have the whole process wrapped up by June 30, 2024. I just wanted to put this back up on the radar and get a sense of whether we will be able to get these all installed by summer?

I will be in contact soon regarding the locations of the remaining bins.

Thank you!
Daphne

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Good morning Daphne,  Mark forwarded your email to me.  When you send the lists of locations out, please be sure to copy all that are on this email.

In response to your question below of completion by June 30 that is not possible.  Also, without knowing all of the locations it is difficult to give you an answer as to what the completion timeframe would be.  Below are the two scenarios depending on the proposed locations of the bins.

Installing the bins on existing concrete:

 1.   Ironworkers can go to the site with the bins/post with two guys and install the anchors and the bins in 2-3 crew hours (4-6 hours total with two guys).

Installing the bins on newly placed concrete:

 1.  This process will begin with the labor supervisor going to the site and marking the location.  1-2 hours
 2.  The utility marking crew would then be notified, and they have a 48 hour window to locate utilities.  1-2 hours
 3.  Laborers and operators go to the site and dig out the spot and place rock. 3-4 crew hours
 4.  Cement finishers form and pour the concrete and it needs to cure for at least 48 hours.  3-4 crew hours
 5.  Ironworkers can install the anchors and the bin once concrete has cured. 2-3 crew hours

Depending on how closely the locations are to each other they may prepare 2 or 3 at once and rotate through those with the different steps above.  However, that is not always possible.

I hope this helps to see how the two differ in time needed and to see how it really gets involved when the location requires new concrete.

Please let me know if you have any questions.



   Thank you,

 [Illinois]
  Tim Mininger
   Maintenance Program & Project Coordinator

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Hi all,

I am sharing out 11 more locations which have been approved by Brent & Stacey. Please see attached, and please let me know if I can provide any additional information. I will continue to send out locations as I receive approval.

Thank you,
Daphne

Justin, 

You can have Burzin work on this when he comes in, if you like.

Thanks

Chad

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Hi all,

We have completed all outdoor bin location proposals. With all the photos it is a large document, so I have placed it on a shared Box. Please let me know if any of these locations need further clarification.

Thank you,
Daphne

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Daphne and Tim,

Once the additional bin locations are approved for installation let us know and we will get them added/updated in GIS.

Tim,

As your team completes installs let us know and we will collect “as-installed” location plus an image for GIS.

Daphne,

We’ve added the dual bins installed to date along with an image to GIS…(sample below)

https://fs.web.illinois.edu/Insider/2024/04/09/crushing-it/

Hi Daphne,

Have you had any discussion with Housing dining about piloting composting in their catering operations?

I believe we could encourage them to lead a pilot for that.

Thanks,

Morgan 

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Hi Morgan,

I just spoke with Thurman today during our final iCAP ZW team meeting, and he has informed me that Dining will be moving their catering operations from Housing Food Stores to Florida Avenue Residence Hall while HFS undergoes construction. For that year, they will use FAR’s existing Grind2Energy. When they move Catering back to HFS, they intend to have a sixth Grind2Energy installed there and ready to use.

Thank you,

Daphne

WCIA: UI Students donate unwanted dorm items for annual Dump and Run

https://www.wcia.com/news/ui-students-donate-unwanted-dorm-items-for-annual-dump-and-run/

Smile Politely: We need to talk trash

https://www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/we-need-to-talk-trash/

We are using the blue bags in all the buildings. That is the expectation but it is possible a few here and there use black bags in containers as we had some complaints on the size didn’t fit.  

Thanks 

Mark Kuehl

Hi Mark,

Do you know what the status of the colored bag transition is across the residence halls? E.g., how many have transitioned so far?

Thank you,
Daphne

The Resilience iCAP team met to dicuss current and future objectives for the iCAP.

Meeting Agenda: https://uofi.box.com/s/in2onz24v84he9mztavt8u4f9ceqih14

The Resilience iCAP Team met to discuss the Master Biodiversity Plan, review 2020 iCAP Objectives, and create content for the 2025 iCAP kickoff poster.

Meeting Agenda: https://uofi.box.com/s/6qnvds4yindt7o0xjxmvx4icxt6x5suo

iCAP Kickoff Poster content: https://uofi.box.com/s/tutm186z277r7i7rqh19x4o8a5edxm03

2020 iCAP Objectives Evaluation: https://uofi.box.com/s/lxozegioep2o9drfa3v669l0ytlha7qo

Attached is a Feb 2022 report from the Intentional Endowments Network which looked at the U of I system's investment policies. The report is entitled,  "Commitment to Sustainability: Investment Strategies at the University of Illinois System".

Included is a link to an article discussing the report which states, "The study details how two years after establishing a program to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions, an initial allocation of $160 million has grown to $252 million, returning 47% on an annualized basis and outperforming its benchmark (Russell 3000) by 1.2%."

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2024 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,750.03 Megawatt hours.

The April 2024 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

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)