P10H08409 north of main hallway and P10H08410 south of main hallway.

P10E62230 placed in the basement, P10H08411 placed on second floor, and P10H08412 placed on third floor.

P10H08408 placed on first floor near room 180, P10H8407 placed on second floor near main stairs, and P10H8406 placed at the east stair main entry.

Hi everyone,

Thank you all for your efforts putting this press release together. (See attached) I’ve scheduled this to publish on PRI’s website on Monday, Mar. 20th at 8:00 a.m.

You can find drilling images here. Please give photo credit to Travis Tate.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks again,

Tiffany

Hello,

I'm the Carbon Offset Fellow with Second Nature. I would like to check in with someone from UIUC about your participation in the C2P2 program. We are preparing to contract with an accredited third-party verifier to seek verification of all credits between July 1 2020 and Dec 31, 2022, and for the revalidation of UIUC's project crediting period. The cost for this for UIUC is significant and will require site visits by the third-party verifier.  I need confirmation from someone on your team that you do want us to contract these services on your behalf. 

My cell phone number is 828 582 5039. Email is also a good way to reach me. 

Thank you for your attention to this. I look forward to your reply!

Meredith

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Hi Morgan,

Is this something you would like me to assist with?

Thanks,

Jen

Hello,

During this election, I have been working to include referenda supporting the renewal and increase of the bike fee on the ballot for Facilities and Services. F&S has administered this fee since the student who initiated it graduated, so I haven't been directly involved with the fee itself outside of my interactions with SSC. I understand that Brian Farber has submitted the renewal referendum, but I'm still unsure about what's required to include the increase. Alex Sune suggested that I could get it added directly to the ballot by emailing you all because of the nature of the referendum question and that it might not be necessary to pass a resolution or collect signatures. I wasn't able to attend the ISG meeting where the resolution was supposed to be passed, and there may have been more contention than expected. I'm unsure whether the resolution passed, but we're in a difficult situation with the deadline approaching. Please let me know if we can do anything to make this happen or if you need more information.

Best regards,
Jack Reicherts

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Hi Jack,

Thank you for looping me into this communication.

Ben, for context, Jack approached ISG to submit a referendum question relative to the current Bike Fee renewal question. I shared with him that it might be helpful to reach out and ask if it is possible to add a second question about increasing the fee, given the primary renewal question is already on the ballot. If this were a non-renewal year, I would suggest he follow the process of collecting signatures or soliciting ISG to place the question on the referendum.

With Illini Pride,

Alex

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Hi all!

Thank you for reaching out! Based on the Election Code and the procedures we followed last year for the renewal and increase of the SSC Fees, only renewals are eligible for automatic placement on the ballot. Last year, the CET and SCEF fees were up for renewal, at that time, SSC also wanted to increase those fees. While the renewal questions were automatically placed on the ballot, the questions regarding increasing the fees were passed by ISG and then placed on the ballot. Since this is the same renewal year scenario with the Bike Fee, I would say that in order for an increase to be placed on the ballot, it does need to be petitioned for or passed by ISG. I know this is unfortunate given the slim timeline, but given the similarity to the increases and renewals last year, the same rules apply.

Let me know your thoughts and if you have any additional questions or concerns.

Benjamin Sell

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Hi there,

This might be a better question for SFAC, but do you know if it will be possible to pursue an increase during a non-renewal year? Unfortunately, it sounds like ISG had some concerns about putting the fee increase on the ballot, but I think it’s worth pursuing in the long run even if it’s not possible this year. I recognize that we probably can’t get the petition going this semester, but I do think we’ll have more success next year if we start now!  If you don’t know, I’ll reach out to folks at SFAC and see what they say! In any case, I appreciate you clarifying!

Thanks,

Jack

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Hi Jack,

I believe a fee increase can be pursued any year, including non-renewal years. However, Alex or Gina may have a better idea than me on that.

Best,

Benjamin Sell

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Done:

• Removed RSS Feeds from listings (e.g. Project Updates for collection: Geothermal Projects)
  • As a side-benefit, these Feeds seem to have been the cause of some informational warnings about missing db joins at the top of certain listings, which are now fixed:
    • Project Updates by Key Objective listing page (see, e.g. Projects Updates for key objective: 1.0 iCAP 2020 Illinois Climate Action Plan)
    • Project Updates by Place (see, e.g. Projects Updates for place: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC))
• Q: Can we limit access to menu selection for Projects to only certain users - e.g. iCAP Admins?
  • A: Yes! it turns out we'd already done that :-) iCAP Admins and iCAP Moderators can update the menu system, but iCAP Advocates cannot.
• Implemented new search indexing algorithm to make search less rigid:
  • Will now find different versions of equivalent words (e.g. plurals and singular treated as the same word)
  • Omitting an apostrophe when searching will find versions of that word which include an apostrophe
  • Note: doesn't seem to understand that "bikes" and "bicycles" are equivalent, though - I can look into whether I can add in certain equivalent words. Are there others we'd like to see?

Discussion:

• Discussion item from Stacy:

  • I would like to add to the agenda a brainstorm for ways we might be able to make a Project Page for Sustainability Experiential Learning projects.

     

    This idea is the basis of the Resilience Team economic analysis recommendation that  iWG passed. Members of the iCAP Education team are working with me.

     

    The project is basically like this:

     

    1. A needed project is identified by a community organization (e.g. life cycle analysis of a green technology for a new building),
    2. A Capstone class is identified (Eric Green’s Captstone) interested in experiential learning projects.
    3. A faculty mentor is named (Eric Green or other expert)
    4. Student teams form to work on the experiential learning project during their capstone class.
    5. Students work on the project, learn from it, deliver value to the “community client”

  • Anna Mehl from the Education iCAP Team and I are currently information gathering and brainstorming ways to create a page where we can provide information about future sustainability experiential learning projects.

     

    Some programs that are similar include:

     

    1. https://healthinstitute.illinois.edu/community-impact/community-academic-partnerships/community-academic-scholars
       
    2. https://sustainability.uic.edu/student-experience/sustainability-internship-programs/

  • Those websites are not set up the same way as the iCAP portal. What can we do? What can’t we do? Is the iCAP portal appropriate for this project – should we look for a different home?

  • Outcomes/Decisions:
    1. Has been discussed before, there are challenges to implementing it
    2. Not proceeding with this on iCAP Portal at this time, maybe later?
    3. See Independent Student Projects for an example of a similar attempt on iCAP Portal - see Project Background and associated Project Updates
• Should we show a "last updated" date on the projects?
  • Automatically show last time Project was updated?
  • Add field that is updated intentionally when a project's information has been reviewed & by whom?
  • Add a disclaimer about information being correct at the time it was entered?
• Question about a TODO: "Collections page: Add image upload option". At a previous meeting we had this TODO, but what was the context? Was it to have a thumbnail for each Collection? Or a banner image?
• Should we link to "Take Action" project from homepage?
• Archiving projects
  • Add "Archived" checkbox?
  • Add "Archived" to Visibility options?
  • Add "Archived" to Project Status options? (probably not - this mixes the status of the project itself with whether we still want it to show up on the site)
  • Remove from nested listings, still publicly available?

TODO:

• Projects pages metrics 2-∞ have no labels on Y-axis (e.g. Pedestrian and Bicycle Counts)
• Permissions:
  • Metric Tracking:
    • Add/update: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, iCAP Advocates
    • Delete: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, NOT iCAP Advocates
  • Metric Targets:
    • Add/update: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, NOT iCAP Advocates
    • Delete: iCAP Admins, iCAP Moderators, NOT iCAP Advocates
• Change iCAP Advocates to iCAP Clerks
• Fancy project layout mockups - keep tweaking #3 to improve contrast
• Discuss metrics
  • Metrics with lots of data
  • Consider how to handle old metrics that no longer track new data. Archive somehow?
  • Fun with math (e.g. combining multiple metrics)
  • Calculated Metrics on Dev site

Hi Jen & Morgan,

I’ll be putting additional notes I took onto the shared OneNote, but wanted to put it on your radar that I met with a school that has successfully eliminated almost all its single-use plastic, Vanderbilt, and they shared the overview and insights into this process:

• Implemented fall 2019. Products are now sold in aluminum, boxes (e.g “Boxed Water”), or glass.
• This was an initiative that Dining led (with great vigor, it sounds like).
• Dining had the infrastructure and support to do it:
  
  • Reusable aluminum bottles are provided to new students each year with information about plastic reduction efforts on campus.
  • The school has many water bottle filler stations.
  • Unanimous support from the rest of the school (students, faculty, staff, admin).
• It was not an easy transition:
  
  • Originally the school had Coca-Cola as the beverage partner. Coca-Cola was not on board with supplying only aluminum long-term, so when the contract ended, the school switched to Pepsi.
• And the transition is attempting to be expanded…
  
  • Plastic bottles are still served to athletes at Athletics’  “nutrition centers” where the athletes eat: Gatorade bottles and sports drinks are their biggest consumption habits here. Sustainability is working on convincing their Athletics unit to get on board with this elimination. It is the student athletes who consume more single-use plastic than the fans who attend the events.
• Dining is a huge advocate of sustainability efforts in general:
  
  • They’ve implemented a compost program for kitchen scraps and leftover student food at the dining halls.
  • They have a reusable to-go program.
  • At markets you can fill your own reusable bottle with bulk drinks: sparkling water, cold brew, nitro coffee.
  • They very recently piloted a bulk foods program for one of their markets (picture attached).
• Anecdotally, the sustainability and recycling contacts I talked with think single-use water sales are down in the non-plastic materials.

Not to chase a pipe dream here with eliminating plastic on our campus, but the zero waste coordinator should be an instigator, right? 😊

Thank you,

Daphne