All, nothing major to report last week. Shop was open, people came in, same as usual. I coordinated with Working Bikes for our shipping event that happened yesterday. We packed up 317 bikes to go back to their warehouse in Chicago and then onto South Africa. There are still 67 bikes left that WB said they will return for later this fall. There is also a collection of the good bikes we are saving for ourselves. Those total about 50 or so.

Our new policy of allowing for free used tubes hasn’t caused any problems. Maybe 5-10 people have taken us up on it. Surprisingly one person insisted on patching despite the free tube. That might change next Spring/Summer. It will also help to expedite peoples’ stand time, as it’s obviously quicker to grab a used tube than mess with patching.

Tomorrow is the Bike Census. I will be helping Lily with that. I will also be shuttling the good bikes from the warehouse back to CBC and moving some over to the Urbana shop as well. CBC is currently packed to the gills with bikes.

The numbers:
Visitors: 91
Sales (overall): $1,221.50

Memberships: 11 for $330
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $555
Bikes (B-a-B): 0 for $0
Tires/tubes: 18 for $132

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

Hello all!

Tomorrow morning is the bike census and it is going to be a blast! The weather looks great and the campus will be very seasonally fall like.

Tomorrow’s event starts at 10 AM and ends at 11 AM. You can finish early! But please finish your whole block or let me know! Training for the event is crucial, because as you start you might start asking some questions about what counts and other questions. Attached is the instructions we will be going over in training tomorrow. Event training starts at 9 AM-9:05-ish. I will have print maps for notes or problems.

REMEMBER TO CHARGE YOUR PHONE TONIGHT!

Download the app Collector by ESRI sometime today from your respective app store. It is free. There is a log in to the bike census. It is here:

Username: BikeCensus

Password: bikecensus2017

Timeline for Tomorrow:

9 AM to 9:45 AM will be training and answering all questions at the Illini Union, South Patio

10 AM to 11 AM will be counting.

11 AM – 11:45 AM if you can, please drop off paper maps for any racks that were not on the map and need to be hand entered. If you can’t, just scan or take a picture and email it to lwilco2@illinois.edu or jvwhit@illinois.edu

Map Block Assignment

Map link is here: http://goo.gl/Cbq9Fj

Honestly, I cannot thank all of you volunteers enough. Personally, I love technology and I love it when we can use it to make our communities better. Thank you for your hard work and James Whitacre at the Scholarly Commons and I will be typing away to process this information and get it in your hands and the hands of campus planners, engineers, architects, and administration.

With all this being said, tomorrow have a good sense of humor, walk and bike quickly, and have fun counting every bike we can!

Thank you,

Lily Wilcock and James Whitacre

Visiting Active Transportation Coordinator

Facilities and Services

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Give to the Campus Bike Plan Fund at http://go.illinois.edu/bikefund

Dr. Ximing Cai presented the attached presentation to the SWATeam members at the beginning of fall 2017.

Here's a neat idea for campus to consider, as we continue to look at options for ground cover under solar panels.

All, the major news of last week was the Light The Night event. We installed roughly 870 light sets this year! We completely sold out, which is a first for me in the 4 or so years in which I’ve been involved with this event. With it still being warm out, I hope we can get some valuable feedback from people who’re using the lights in regards to which ones they like, how they’re performing, etc.

Last week was also the Members’ Meeting for the Bike Project wherein it was decided that used tubes will henceforth be free of charge for in-shop repairs. While this will cut into profits, it is a better choice as we do not have the ability to maintain proper quality control with our used tube selection. If a person wants to buy a tube for later use, however, they must still pay for it.

Late Friday I got a message from Working Bikes in regards to coordinating for emptying the Bike Warehouse. They would like to do the event next Monday (October 9th). I will discuss with the Bike Project and decide if this is doable.

The numbers:

Sales (overall): $867.95
Memberships: 12 for $360

Bikes (refurbished): 0
Bikes (Build-a-Bike): 0
Tires/Tubes: 26 for $180

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

The Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling SWATeam kicked off the semester with a discussion of their past and continuing efforts and proposals, their progress in achieving iCAP objectives, and goals for the upcoming year. They also gave recommendations on the creation of a Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) Climate Action Plan.

At ISTC computers are required to be at least EPEAT Bronze rated.

There is mention of EPEAT Bronze in the legislation at the State level—see http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=041501500K65. Note that the phrasing in this is a little odd because some of the products mentioned (e.g. mice, VCRs, etc. ) aren’t part of the EPEAT registry. But since a wide variety of people (i.e. people who are not campus procurement personnel) may purchase equipment, office supplies, etc., and not be aware of what EPEAT is, let alone that the state has expectations related to it, it’s perfectly possible that there are researchers or IT professionals who are buying items for University use with little thought about EPEAT.

Procurement would have to confirm whether or not non-EPEAT related computers, laptops or tablets were available from vendors in UI punchouts in iBuy.

The Transportation SWATeam had it's first meeting of the year. They discussed progress on the Transportation iCAP objectives, the status of related projects and proposals, and their priorities for the year. The team identified the following three areas on which they plan to focus in the coming meetings: 

1. Exploring options for offsetting air travel emissions

2. Pursuing a comprehensive intermodal transit survey (one for students and one for faculty)

3. Assessing the feasibility of various options to reduce emissions from the campus fleet

The next meeting is on October 12th.

Hi SWATeam,

I’m working with two interns, Kate Gardiner and Hursh Hazari, to address the recycled content paper habits on campus.  Hursh did an analysis of the paper purchases by college from FY15, and we are seeking updated data from OBFS.  That is attached in excel here.

Kate is working on putting the policy in the CAM format, and the first stab of that is attached here.

We just got off the phone with one of the F&S folks who orders paper, and she always orders from Office Max in iBuy.  She showed us (shared her screen) how she places the order in office max and got the current pricing for us.  Then she went into iStores from F&s and got the price for 30% recycled content paper.  She said she doesn’t usually go into F&S stores (“iStores”), and it isn’t a punchout in iBuy.  I had thought it was, but we couldn’t find it on the screen (see attached photo).  She couldn’t find the virgin paper pricing in F&S Stores, so we got off the phone and I logged into iStores to get that price. Here are the prices per ream:

Office Max – virgin paper $3.10

Office Max – 30% rec. content $3.55, which is 15% higher

iStores – virgin paper $2.97

iStores – 30% recycled content $3.03, which is 2% higher

Comparing Office Max virgin paper to iStores 30%recycled content paper, users could save 7 cents per ream by switching.  Also, Office Max pricing is based on buying at least 10 reams (or one case), and iStores has that pricing for any quantity, even just one ream.

HOWEVER, it is apparently pretty difficult to use iStores.  Can one of the staff or faculty on your team try to login to iStores and see if you need to get special permission to access it?  I already had access, but that could have been from sometime in my past 20 years on campus.  The logon is at https://my.fs.illinois.edu/fsportal/portal/.

Any and all feedback on the other documents is of course welcome.

Thanks!

Morgan

On September 26, 2017, the Student Sustainability Committee held a full committee meeting. During this meeting, members discussed working group progress, a potential SSC conference, Slack (a communication app), and the Illini Bike Share project.