Morgan requests AiM account for project
Morgan sent an email to Janet Spencer in F&S Operations, Maintenance, and Alterations business office, about getting an AiM account for the SSC CFOP with this funding.
Morgan sent an email to Janet Spencer in F&S Operations, Maintenance, and Alterations business office, about getting an AiM account for the SSC CFOP with this funding.
Amy Liu and Morgan Johnston discussed the process for moving forward.
David Mischiu and Amy Liu met today to form a very basic list of priority buildings for filler installment. Additionally, they determined which floors for each building would be most useful to have them on. Here is the list, 1 indicating highest priority.
They still want to take a look a few more buildings in the quad. Whatever is surveyed from that might not even change the list presented already, but add to how this project could materialize in the future.
Morgan reached out to Felicia Speranske to get a current contact with the ISS for this project. The funding was delayed, arriving in late June, rather than mid May, and this project is waiting for a list of priority locations to begin installation. Morgan also sent an email to Damani Bolden the Illinois Student Senate (ISS) president.
By providing convenient bottle filling stations at water fountains in several heavily-trafficked campus buildings and libraries, the goal of this project was to wean the student body off of plastic water bottle consumption, lower campus waste generation, and encourage students, faculty, staff, and visitors to adopt environmentally-conscious habits. A marketing campaign called “Tap That” was coordinated to publicize the project and educate the campus community about the numerous benefits of reusable water bottles. In total, the project expenses were $15,160.
The University purchased 34 1-loop Challenger Plus - (3 Bike) - Surface Flange - Stainless Steel from Graber Manufacturing, Inc./Madrax Bike Racks, in 2013. These bike racks were installed at the Art & Design Center at the University of Illinois.
Mckenzie Beverage sent the award letter to Morgan Johnston with the account information.
Stacey DeLorenzo, Amelia Neptune, Morgan Johnston, and Noel Grove met to review the bike parking estimates for this project. There are a few locations where the pavement is in terrible condition, so we discussed options for handling those locations. The racks could be installed on rails, or the pavement could be replaced. There were also a few locations where there are conflicting major projects occuring in the near future. Stacey will talk to the project managers for those sites to work through the solutions for the bike parking installation.
Additionally, this project includes the installation of one bike fix-it station at Allen Hall. Amelia began this work and Stacey will take it over now. Stacey and Amelia will meet with Sean Sullivan in the SSC to provide him with an update. Noel Grove will provide cost break downs with the pavement work separate from the bike rack installation work. He will also contact the Iron Workers to discuss options for racks on rails built in-house.
From: Neptune, Amelia
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:27 PM
To: Ortiz, Benita Vonne
Cc: Johnston, Morgan B
Subject: Bicycle Repair Station outside of Allen Hall
Hi Vonne,
As you may recall, earlier in the school year we had discussed that there is some funding for a new bicycle repair station near Allen Hall/CRCE. The original location we proposed near Gregory Drive in front of CRCE was rejected by the Architecture Review Committee, and they have proposed a better location near the bike parking area in front of Allen Hall. I would like to get your OK on this location before we move forward.
The first attached PDF shows the location proposed by the Architecture Review Committee. As you’ll see in the photos on pages 2 and 3, it is on existing pavement, close to the bike parking, but not blocking a walkway, which I think is ideal.
The second PDF shows the specifications of the newly designed repair stations so you know what it would look like. The new design is much smaller and (in my opinion) more attractive than the existing repair stations we have elsewhere on campus. The blue color of the existing stations is no longer available, so our plan is to match the color of the adjacent bike parking, in this case black.
Please let me know if Housing has any objections to this location, or would like to meet there in person to discuss it further. Once I have your approval, we’ll move forward placing the order and installing this summer. Please let me know if there are any questions.
Thank you,
Amelia
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Amelia Neptune
Campus Bicycle Coordinator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1501 S. Oak, Champaign, IL 61820
217-300-1316
To Davie Akins, Please proceed with the bike parking upgrade on the west side of Art and Design, per the previous discussions we have had. The SSC funding will contribute $11,849.50 from CFOP: 1-629514-814006-xxxxxx-191200-814BIK. - from Morgan Johnston
Transportation Demand Management staff designed sketches and submitted a work order request to have formal CAD drawings made for the remaining 9 bike parking locations to be upgraded from donut hole style racks to "U" racks.
Transportation staff submitted work order requests to have cost estimates for time and materials for the first five locations to be upgraded from donut hole bike parking to U-rack bike parking. The remaining nine locations need to have CAD drawings produced and apprroved before costs can be estimated.
Bike parking is essential for supporting green commuters as well as raising awareness and supporting biking on campus. In 2009, the SSC funded $10,600 for standard bike parking at three popular locations on campus, Freer Hall, the Undergraduate Library, and the Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building. Later in 2012, SSC provided $225,000 in order to replace old donut-hole bike parking with U-loop parking at the Armory, the Main Library, the Foreign Language Building, and other high-traffic areas on campus.
The goal of this project is to fund installation of bicycle parking facilities at the Undergraduate Library, the Ag. Sciences Engineering Building and Freer Hall. Cycling is a sustainable form of transportation, highly used by the student body, and inadequately supported on campus. Thus the students sustainability committee is in favor of funding the full requested amount of $10,600.