All, Really slow last week as the weather got rainy and snowy—sure fire ways to keep people off their bikes. Although a nice Scottish gentleman studying here came by to claim one of the remaining bikes as a B-a-B. He repeatedly mentioned wishing there was something like this back home in Scotland, so we’re basically cooler than Scotland.

We had our first Fix-a-Flat class on Friday but that was a no-show, sadly.
I picked up some bikes from the warehouse to keep my staff busy while we wait for the real moving to commence. We’ve built up just about every bike in the shop, save some old 3 speeds. A good amount of inventory has been boxed up and moved to the Urbana shop or stored here for use at our new space.
This week I’ll be meeting with marketing and IT folks to discuss how the new bike center will look from those respective areas.

The numbers:
Visitors: 46
Sales: $261
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 4 for $26

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center

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.

Attached are the meeting minutes from the Transportation SWATeam meeting on 10 February 2020.

The agenda was as follows:

Updates

• 2020 iCAP
• SP19 Recommendations
• S. Prasad (F&S Updates)

SP20 Recommendations

Teleconferencing Assessments Survey

Faculty/Staff Carpool

Attached are the meeting notes from the iWG meeting on 2/10/2020. This meeting focused on discussing the Zero Waste section of the iCAP 2020.

Attached are the meeting minutes for the Zero Waste SWATeam meeting on 7 February 2020.

The agenda was as follows:

Introductions

• F&S Interim Zero Waste Coordinator

Updates

• 2020 iCAP
• Student Sustainability Coordinators
• Sustainability Ethics Training
• SP19 Recommendations Update: PWR 018 (iBUY Catalogue Modification)

SP20 Timeline

Global recycling of material has been widespread throughout the world for many years as an option for source reduction, excess waste generation and materials diversion from landfills. According to recyclingtoday.com, 2019 has been a challenge for the recycling materials market as it adjusted to tightened Chinese import restrictions and U.S-China trade war issues as well as a softened domestic market that affected commodities pricing.

Going into the New Year, recyclers don’t predict any significant market changes for the first half of 2020.

Saying Goodbye to a Difficult Year-2019 has challenged the resolve of many recyclers.

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/2019-scrap-market-review/2019-scrap-market-review/

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the January 2020 Buyer's Share amounts by hour, totaling 2,131.5 Megawatt hours. See attached file.

Shantanu Pai will be reaching out to Meredith Moore to discuss strategies for expanding small-scale composting like this project in other areas across campus. 

Sarthak confirmed with Evan Alvarez, on when to hold the event. March 12th, 2020 from 12:30 to 1:30 was finalized. Sarthak reserved the conference room 1040 at NCSA from 12-2 pm.

The Campus Bike Center is bringing several Bike Maintenance classes and Group Rides for Spring 2020 for free!

All, Slow and steady for the week on the whole. Anecdotally busy again for this time of year. Still gearing up and/or down for moving shop, depending on how you think of it.
We’ve got our first fix-a-flat class of the semester coming up this Friday from 11am – 12p.  Today’s warm weather projects a busy shop this afternoon but I’ve given up trying to predict how busy it’ll be. I’ll also be hiring two new student staffers this week with a third interview to schedule.
The numbers:
Visitors: 61
Sales: $651
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $430
Memberships: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 8 for $31

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center

See attached for the iWG Meeting Minutes and notes from 2/3/2020. The discussion focused on the Land and Water section of the iCAP 2020.

A brief introduction to Water Environment Federation - American Water Works Association (WEF-AWWA) Student Chapter UIUC

We have been involved in organizing events and meetings that orient students towards the water industry. 

Listed below are some of our past activities:

1. Organizing regular general meetings with water companies based in Champaign and the Greater Chicago Area.
2. Organized an annual conference 'Diving Into The Water Industry' featuring presenters from different fields within the water industry.
3. Organizing office visits for students to water companies and also field visits to local water treatment plants.
4. Involvement with WEF and its divisional organization Central States Water Environment Association (CSWEA). Every year, we take part in the WEF student design competition. Last year, our project 'Flood Mitigation Strategies for Houston, TX' won the category for Environmental Design and was selected for presentation in WEFTEC 2019, the annual conference of WEF.

The Energy SWATeam's January 2020 meeting involved discussions on the responsbilities of the SWATeam and the assignments to subcommittees of the Energy SWATeam to help the committee work towards acheiveing its objectives more effectively. 

Hi Meredith,

Here's my update from last week:

I identified the other units in the NSRC, prepared a letter to send out to the tenants to inform them of the composting project (attached), and researched how to start a successful composting program. 

I'll see you soon!

Theresa

Worked on Anaerobic Digestor presentation: added food waste energy potential and emissions, edited biogas use section, discussed structure, format and next steps. Also discussed contacts for additional information/ assistance.