This meeting is open to anyone on campus interested in supporting local pollinators.

We are meeting tomorrow from 1:30-2:30 at F&S with both advisors and students from the Bee Campus USA committee.  Chantelle sent the invite, but there are more people than can fit in the room she sent, so please join us in the Garage and Car Pool building conference room.  This is in the building at the southwest corner of Oak and Kirby. 

Our agenda is as follows:

• Overview of the Bee Campus USA 2018 submitted plan (attached)
• review the draft signage for small Bee Campus USA signs and proposed placement (attached)
• discuss a student project related to future expansion of the Pollinatarium, with guest Namita Johri
• review annual renewal requirements (see attached)

Attached are the meeting minutes from the Zero Waste meeting on 8 October 2019. Once again, iCAP 2020 objectives were discussed; specifically, sustainable procurement (discussion led by Aaron Finder) took up the bulk of the meeting, with reuse of surplus goods taking up the last part. 

All, Much like the weather, we’ve been starting off cold and slow most days and heating up by the end. We’ve been weaving in and out of our FVF policy as I’ve felt bad turning people away when the shop is empty. But then, of course, in a blink of an eye we’re All Stands Full and members are waiting for stand time, which seems unfair.
 

We had Light The Night on Thursday and that was a success from what I saw of it. Two CBC staffers helped out with the event in my absence as the shop was too busy for me to be able to get away for the whole event.
 

We also had our Fix-a-Flat class on Friday. We had one participant. He was eager, engaged and said he’d be back for the next class, which was great.
This week we have our Bike Maintenance 101 class on Friday and I’ll be doing a training with a new hire.
 

The numbers:
Visitors: 80
Sales: $2,108
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $640
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $400
Tires/tubes: 15 for $59

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center

These are the minutes of the first meeting of the Education SWATeam, on September 26, 2019.

Tristan Pisarczyk connected Sarthak Prasad with Jenna Fesemyer, the Resident Director, at Newman Hall. Jenna said that she does not believe that this is a service that their residents need. She said that this program would serve better towards the beginning of the school year.

Jenna suggested that we should wait for the next academic year to put on a program during an earlier time.

Got a response from Evan Alvarez on Oct 7, but had to move the date of the event from October 9 to October 16, because one week promotion would not have been enough for the event.

Please see attached the list of avenues used to promote Light the Night event.

UPTV coverage of Light the Night event, featuring Barry Isralewitz and Sarthak Prasad

There were 400 e-bikes and nearly 75 pedal bikes in operation. Please see the September Report below:

September Rides: 36,426

• E‐bikes – 31,976
• Peddle bikes – 4,449

September User Growth: 2,203
September Average Ride Time: 8 minutes
Average Rides per day: 1,214
Total Ridership: 337,704
Total Userbase: 18,567

Reports to remove bikes from Private property: 23
Reports of improper parking: 25

Below are answers to questions brought up at our last meeting on campus:

1. Vandalism – Here at UIUC the vandalism rate on the peddle bikes was 1 out of 15 bikes. We consider vandalism any damage the is inconsistent with normal ware and tear. (Baskets breaking off, thrown in creek/river, destroying tires etc.) So far with the e‐bikes we have 10 total that have been vandalized. A much lower rate.
2. Check on donation availability – At this time the company views donation as a great idea but the liability if something happens down the road is too much of a risk at this time.
3. Number of scrapped bikes – 215peddle bikes

Attached are the meeting minutes from the Transportation SWATeam, where the iCAP 2020 objectives were discussed. Of five general topics, two have definitive objectives, one needs outside consulting, and two have not yet been discussed.

Meeting minutes for the Land and Water SWATeam meeting on September 26th, 2019. We met to discuss the 2020 iCAP timeline and objectives as well as project recommendation updates. 

Jennifer Carson from McKinley Health Center provided 400 (200 each for two locations) reflective orange slap bands for the Light the Night event that have imprinted on them our 24/7 Dial-A-Nurse. These are great for being seen in the evening hours.

Jen dropped them off in Sarthak's office at 9 am on October 3.

Attached are the meeting minutes of the meeting on 1 October.

Food waste was discussed and potential objectives were discussed.

Additionally, Landon Hill of DRS joined the group for a quick chat about the DRS battery recycling program.