Grundy Reporter

University of Illinois System State Senate Committee on Campus Operations met March 11.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

Present: Chair John Dallesasse, Joe Bradley, James Brennan, Reid Christianson, Peter Dragic, Rudolf Haken, Sara Holder, Joanne Kaczmarek, Glennys Mensing

Ex officio: Mohamed Attalla, Gloria Keeley, Jonah Messinger, Morgan White

Absent: Luis Casta Hernandez, Kelvin Jiang, Joseph Edwards (ex-officio)

I. CALL TO ORDER

A regular meeting of the Senate Committee on Campus Operations (CO) was called to order at 9:00 am with Chair Dallesasse presiding.

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes of the February 11, 2021 meeting were approved as distributed by roll call vote. Yes: Dallesasse, Bradley, Brennan, Christianson, Dragic, Haken, Holder, Kaczmarek, Mensing No: None

Abstain: None

III. PUBLIC COMMENT

No requests received.

IV. CHAIR’S REMARKS

Director of Campus Parking will be attending the next meeting instead of today. Gies College of Business would like to build a parking structure next to the building. More information on this may be discussed with the committee at a future time.

V. UPDATE ON FACILITIES AND SERVICES (Attalla)

Attalla provided the following updates:

• Due to winter weather and storms, Facilities and Services issued various alerts to campus.

• The Energy Management Plan was issued on March 1 and information was sent out to the campus by Mass Mail.

VI. UPDATE ON THE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENT (White) White shared the following:

• Campus Race to Zero Waste (previously known as Recycle Mania) the campus is currently at approximately 30%. This will go through the end of March.

• Plastic Free Challenge – will be held the month of March. Information can be found at the following link: https://sustainability.illinois.edu/campus-sustainability/contests and-challenges/

• iSee Congress – will hold the first event on April 6. Information can be found at the following link: https://sustainability.illinois.edu/outreach/isee-congress/isee congress-spring-2021/

• iSee and Facilities and Services have been talking with Illinois Human Resources regarding returning to work on campus. This will impact space needs and driving emissions.

• Environmental Leadership Program classes are full.

VII. UPDATE ON THE STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE (Messinger)

• A lot of the student fees were rolled back in the Fall semester and cancelled for the Spring semester. SSC was able to fund approximately $200,000 in requests this Spring. Extra funds for projects were returned to SSC.

• SSC is only funding student led projects under $10,000 right now.

VIII. UPDATE ON BUSINESS PRACTICES (Keeley)

Keeley shared the following:

• Business IT will be looking at Adobe Sign products to allow some electronic signatures. 

• Chrome River is the vendor for the new TEM software. The committee may want to invite someone from the TEM committee to a meeting in the Fall.

• The University is still in negotiations with Amazon for business.

• OBFS is redesigning the website. There will have be a new name but the same functionality.

IX. OLD BUSINESS

CO.18.03, New Budget Model Discussion

No new discussion.

CO.20.04, Environmental Procurement

No new discussion.

CO.20.05, Objectives for Discussion with University of Illinois Police Department (UIPD) No new discussion.

CO.20.08, Campus Operations Survey Results

CO Minutes 03/11/2021 Page 2 of 3

No new responses have come in. Will discuss with Senate Executive Committee (SEC) Chair Rob Kar to get feedback on how to disseminate the information more widely.

CO.20.09, Topics for Future Meetings and Invited Guest Suggestions

• Parking Department/Parking Advisory Committee

• Space that university rents for offices (Chair of Illinois Space Advisory Committee)

• New Chief of Campus Police

• Do we have any more entries to the portal? Nothing has come in recently.

• Vice Chancellor for Research

CO.20.10,COVID 19 Issues and Concerns

Chair Dallesasse shared that planning is going on for what the Fall semester may look like. He doesn’t believe there is a definitive plan as it is based on what COVID restrictions may be in place in the Fall.

CO.20.11, Discussion of Actions Related to 2019-2020 CO Visitors (VCRI, Safety, etc.) No new discussion.

X. NEW BUSINESS

XI. ADJOURNMENT

The meeting was adjourned at 10:23 am.