Sustainable Campus Committee (SCC) DRAFT Meeting Minutes
Monday, January 3, 2011 : UC 215, 11:10am – 1:00pm
Members Present: Mike Panisko, Cherie Peacock, Robin Saha, Brian Kerns, Robin Saha, Alan Fugleberg, Chris Comer, Jennifer HillHart
Other’s Present:
Old Business
The previous meeting minutes were not able to be approved due to only seven members attending. Robin will get info
from the students on carpooling to add to the minutes.
New Business
The agenda was reviewed and an update on RELF by Robin was added.
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Biomass Plant – (Cherie):
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VP Duringer will be re-scheduled for the February meeting to provide an update.
Cherie reported that there will be another public forum to address the 80 or so questions about the projects in
early February.
The project team will be applying for an air quality permit and begin the MEPA process.
The team will be reporting back to the Board of Regents in May regarding the 80 questions and clarify the air
quality application – whether it will be with the Missoula County or State of Montana, or both.
Robin mentioned two areas that need to be addressed: emission controls (will it be continuous?) and monitoring
the quality of fuel sources (how to minimize receiving rocks and dirt and other contaminants).
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2.
GHG Inventory (Cherie):
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Due by January 15, 2011
Waiting on information from Tom Javins, Facilities Services regarding key steam plant information (Update
1/14/2011: All data received)
Some methods of calculating GHG emissions have changed. Cherie has attempted to back-calculate prior data to
allow for like-comparisons between years.
It was discovered that the air travel data set includes all UM campuses (MT Tech, Western, and Helena COT).
Cherie estimated the quantities due to other campuses on a percentage basis and reduced the data set
accordingly.
Information from Athletics travel is now included and added to the historical data set on a percentage basis for
years where data was not available.
- Question about whether the results can be compared to other Universities. If UM stacks up well, this could be
used as a marketing/recruiting tool.
- Dean Comer offered to ‘mine’ the data once is it complete and report back to committee. Cherie will look at
results and get info to Dean Comer.
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3.
Sonny Kless (RELF) Committee – update (Robin)
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Renaming of the fund was approved by the RELF committee. There is still question of timing and whether to
publicize the renaming. Sonny’s mother is fine with the renaming and may want to donate to the fund. UM
Relations is waiting to hear back from the President’s office on how to communicate with the other families.
- It was decided that Robin will visit with University Relations about timing, especially given the uncertain
findings of the accident report. Adopt a wait and see strategy at this time.
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Robin mentioned that the committee is having difficulty spending all the funds. Alan said there are several
projects students have suggested at the west campus. Perhaps the SCC would want to sponsor a workshop
to engage students and get more projects.
4.
Membership Discussion (Mike/Cherie):
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Committee needs to replace Dan Corti who resigned 1.3.2011 – Mike and Cherie to send out email to XO’s,
looking for someone with background in IT, Purchasing, Media Arts, HR or Visual Performance.
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Mike asked committee about members who aren’t able to attend meetings regularly as to whether there should
be alternates for such cases. No decisions made.
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Discussion expanded to include whether day, time and length of meeting is working for everyone and whether
we should consider changing a few things. The idea of a web portal came up. Two hour blocks are too much for
some members. We could try to conduct some business via email in between meetings.
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Dean Comer suggested a retreat for the SCC to spend focused time on developing a revised vision for where the
committee would like to go in the future. Mike and Cherie will look into this.
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Mike’s term as co-chair is coming to an end so he requested member start thinking about nominations for his
replacement. Mike will send an email to everyone.
5.
SCC Annual Report by Earth Day (April 22), 2011 (Cherie/Mike)
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The Office of Sustainability will provide a write-up for section 1 (See detail below) for annual report.
Section 2 needs to be better defined and prioritized and included in the annual report as well.
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Section 1 - State of Sustainability at UM
1) GHG accounting
2) CAP implementation
3) Other Accomplishments/needs (COT student built house received LEED Bronze; UM Flat; Farm to College;
Green Thread; etc.)
Section 2 – RECOMMENDED ACTIONS AND STRATEGIC PLAN (by the committee)
o Wind Power
o Carbon Offsets
o Air Travel
o Green certificates for events
o Green Purchasing Policy
o Paper policy
o Greening IT
o Glass Recycling
o On-campus Recycling
o Transportation footprint
o CAP Implememtation
o Other?
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NEXT SCC MEETING: February 7, 2010 at 11:10am – 1pm UC 215 (note new location)