Jeff Holt provided Morgan White with the attached estimate for upgrading the interior electrical system in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Building to allow for future installation of rooftop solar PVs.
All, last week was steadily busy but with more minor repairs than B-a-Bs which kept things flowing nicely.
New hire Hank started on Friday. Unfortunately, he’s tall so this shop won’t be friendly to him, height-wise. He’s been enthusiastic and willing to learn-as-you-go, which has been good.
Last week I counted all the bikes in the warehouse. We’ve got approximately 504. Working Bikes is still interested but may be doing a full shipment from down here instead of carting the bikes back to Chicago. That will happen sometime next month, I believe. Details are still being ironed out.
We also had Light The Night 2018! Barry did the counts but we didn’t sell out at Illinois/Lincoln and did at Alma.
This week I have a TBP meeting tonight and am teaching a Bike Maintenance 101 class tomorrow night from 7 – 8pm. Other than that, business as usual.
Numbers:
Visitors: 80
Sales: $773.20
Memberships: 14 for $420
tire/tubes: 10 for $51
Thanks!
Jake Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Manager
Topics of discussion: Student Sustainability Committee proposals to be submitted by other team members for Red Oak Raingarden and Green Stormwater Master Plan; organizign obstacles in achieving iCAP goasl; action items for further working with Parking Department, information that will be required for water audit
Hi Pete and Shawn,
Zero-waste activities this past week were:
I entered 3.3 hours to cover these activities.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
The RLF selection committee approved funding for five projects totalling $814,120. See attached file for the list.
See attached data
Additions to writing of Step 1 proposal for Student Sustainability Committee funding; decisions on which recommendations on green stormwater infrastructure to follow through with; landscaping as relates to ALUFS
Topics of discussion: possible toilet retrofitting for certain campus housing; completing Student Sustainability Committee proposal Parking Department submits; obstacles to achieving certain iCAP goals
After the iWG meeting on September 17, 2018, Dr. Cai sent the following response to the SWATeam regarding ECONS007:
Dear ECBS SWATeam,
Thank you for your strong commitment to campus sustainability. The iCAP Working Group met on Monday this week and discussed the ECONS007 Recommendation (https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project-update/econs007-energy-conservation-funding-2018-recommendation-submittal).
We invited Josh Whitson and Kent Reifsteck to speak with us, and there was a good discussion about the benefits and usefulness of Energy Performance Contracting. However, the iWG decided that there is not an actionable next step in this recommendation, as it currently stands. We strongly support campus funding for energy conservation, so we are returning this recommendation to your team for further information. For example, where do you recommend the suggested funding come from? Also, are there specific projects identified for the funds in the first year? How will those projects coordinate with other efforts for dealing with deferred maintenance? The iWG members are willing to discuss this issue with you and Kent’s team further, to strategize ideas.
Please let us know if you would like to arrange a meeting with your SWATeam and members of the iWG.
Thank you,
Ximing Cai
See related iCAP Working Group meeting notes here.
See SWATeam recommendation ECONS007 Energy Conservation Funding 2018 here.
All, this past week was comfortably slow. Sold out of bikes.
I reached out to Working Bikes about them coming down to pick up bikes but haven’t heard back yet. Will follow up this week.
I’ll also be picking up bikes from UIPD and processing them. I got a report that the pump at Altgeld/Union is on the fritz. I’ll check that out this week and see if I can get it operational without ordering any new parts. Fingers crossed.
Tuesday morning I’ll be meeting with someone from the Illini Gadget Garage. They do a very similar thing to the Bike Center, except with electronics/small appliances: teaching people how to repair them.
Thursday is LTN 2018. We’ve got a record number of lights to install this year!
The numbers:
Visitors: 116
Sales: $1,086
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $180
Bikes (B-a-B): 2 for $97.50
Memberships: 17 for $510
Tires/tubes: 23 for $153
Jake Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Manager
The iCAP Working Group (iWG) met on September 17, 2018, to discuss and start the assessment of the PWR 013 - Zero Waste Coordinator recommendation. The iWG's draft assessment was:
"The iWG supports moving forward with hiring a Zero Waste Coordinator, and we would stress that their responsibilities are twofold: educate the campus on recycling, and to push for system changes to improve campus recycling."
See SWATeam Recommendation PWR013 Zero Waste Coordinator here.
Attached are the meeting minutes from the iWG meeting that was held on September 17th, 2018. Several SWATeam recommendations were assessed.
Hi Pete and Shawn—
It was a quiet week for zero waste. I got a few responses from labs participating in the glove recycling program and had some email with the student volunteers from BER. I plan to wrap up lab contacts this week and report back to Morgan and DRS with as much information as I was able to gather.
Best regards,
Marya Ryan
SSC has voted to approve the $500 micro grant proposal for a guest lecture series with the contingency that this grant is considered seed funding and not ongoing financial support. In accordance with our fee mandates, the funding cannot go towards, food, travel, or lodging. Thus, this grant supports the honorarium and/or venue fees.
Attached are the meeting minutes to the biweekly meeting on September 13, 2018.
Director of Parking at the University of Illinois, Marty Paulins, responded over email to Ximing Cai (iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability) in support of the recommendation:
"Parking supports the recommendation to do a feasibility study for Lot F4, incorporating the green infrastructure from the conceptualization completed by the students in the award winning rainworks challenge."
For future updates on this project, please visit EPA RainWorks Challenge.
See the iWG Assessment of Water005 Rainworks Design Lot F4 here.
See the SWATeam Recommendation Water005 Rainworks Design Lot F4 here.
Director of Parking at the University of Illinois, Marty Paulins, responded over email to Ximing Cai (iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability) in support of the recommendation:
"Parking supports the recommendation to have the Chair of the Transportation SWATeam serve as a voting member of the Parking Advisory Committee. The current chair is listed as Yanfeng Ouyang – if this is correct please let me know and an invitation will be sent to for the initial October meeting."
See the iWG Assessment of Trans009 PAC here.
See the SWATeam recommendation Trans009 PAC here.
