Sustainability at Lake Superior College

Meeting Agenda 4/8/2016

Student Life Conference Room

Announcements

New Business

Earth Day poster view and updates

Legacy Garden – update and walking path (Cliff)

Old Business

NREL assistance update

Stormwater and landscape signs – review

Meeting with UWS, CSS, FDL, UMD – recap

Work Group and Student Employee Reports

Landscape (Kristi)

• Landscape feedback, benches, picnic tables etc
• hillside burn, hillside planting, groundcover, shrubs etc ?
• Boreal 2014 seeded area 2016 management contact/plan (motion needed)

Budget

FY16 Budget: $8,400 

Motions needed

RSPT annual dues: $300

Encumbrances to date:

• Boreal Natives (fall maintenance): -$348.68
• Human Svs Dept (plastic bag removal-annual): -$280
• AASHE travel (hotel for 2): -$601.58
• AASHE registration for 2: -$575
• Encumbered supplies (Dan’s, Shopko, Home Depot, Menards): -$700
• Garden/Council supply shed: -$1000
• AASHE dues: -$280
• IOS (Earth Day supplies): -$9.97
• Amazon (compostable bags): -$60.00

BALANCE as of today: $4,999.87 

FY15-16 potential budget items

• Ditch/swale/raingarden info signs
• Picnic table under H catwalk
• Additional bike rack for main entrance?
• Interpretive Trail bench, trash/recycling cans, exclosures
• Sustainability kiosk
• MnSCU Sustainability Across Curriculum workshop

Next Meeting

May 6^th?