Meeting Agenda 5/3/2012
8:30 – 10:00
Student Life Conference Room
Review Last Meeting’s Minutes
Announcements
Healthy Duluth Area Coalition’s: Active Transportation Week with National Bike to Work Day, May 17th (Dick)
This year’s UMACS conference is November 8-9 in Decorah, Iowa: Abstract for poster presentation due May 30th
NE MN Energy Future Forum with Sierra Club, with keynote Will Steger: May 14th 7:00-9:00 in the LSC Commons
Campus Clean-up is May 9th at 12:00-2:00
Open House table is May 10th 3:00-6:00. Staffers welcome.
Work-Study & Work Group Reports
Legacy Project update (Michelle, Theresa, Kristi)
Garden Club update? (Neldon, Aaron)
New Business
Aluminum Can recycling (Zak-SS)
Water aerators from CERTS promo
SS’s potential Green Fee & Pilot project next year (Kristi, Zak, Wade)
Al wants straw bale gardening on campus, Aaron likes hugal beds. (Aaron)
LSC is a Smoke Free Ecosystem
Ongoing Business
Sustainable Twin Ports: Prezi to staff (Kristi)
Old Business
Sustainability Council meeting with Al report (Deanne, Wade, Kristi)
Earth Day/Duty Day recap: composting, student/employee feedback (Kristi)
Budget
Remaining items: facilities, SS
FY13 Budget: $9,000
Balance as of 5/2/2013: $5,132.45
- Ideas generated for remaining purchases (additional items added from last meeting’s list):
- Water faucet aerators: 70 0.5GPM @$35 + 30 @ 1.0 GPM @$15 + $12 shp=$62
- Concourse lighting signage
- Bottle filling station for ERTC
- Additional bike rack for main entrance
- Outdoor recycling cans
- Interpretive Trailhead sign-next FY
- Interpretive Trailhead entrance stabilization project: landscape timber 3×4”x8’ @ $2.99 eachx17=$50.83 and limestone$150 = $200
- Interpretive Trail bench, trash/recycling cans-next FY
- Silver Bay “field trip”-bus transport
- Parking lot info signs
- Parking lot info signs
- Garden: raised bed demo supplies: soil $180 + 150’ fencing $150 + 4 4×4”x8” corner posts $80 is $180 = $550
- Legacy: fencing for edible exclosures-next FY
- Sustainability kiosk-next FY
· Next Meeting
TBD
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