Notetaker: Eliza and Camila!!!
Stack Keeper: Carson
Vibe Check: Kai
Time Check: Darya
Steering 5/15
Attendees: Taylor, Jarid, Christiana, Kai, Thania, Szeto, Amber, Darya, Carson, Sophie,
Nina, Brendan, Maryna, Camila, Eliza, Nicole, Marissa, Tash
Next Steps:
● Everyone: Sign up for Zero-Waste volunteering at Strawb. Fest 05/17!!
● We need a banner!!
● Nicole: send out End of year celeb. volunteer list
● Marissa: e-mail Joyce about our decision to fund half
● Alex: check budget for funding half of Joyce’s conference fee
● Christiana: Outreach and Rock the Bike collaborate for tabling etc.
● Kai: work on logo edits and email steering to get more edits before next steering
Agenda:
● Check-in (8-805)
● DYOD w/ Sarah Finder (805-815)
○ on campus water conservation project
○ pt. 1: take all of the meter data from the physical plant
■turn it into a monetary amt. reflective of living off campus
○ pt. 2: competition
■stevenson won!
○ pt. 3: educational program
■tabling, etc.
○ Looking for someone to pick up this project when Sarah leaves in June
■SEC seems appropriate to house it
● Hire someone as a project coordinator
○ 10 hr/wk, $500-600/ quarter
○ Potential candidates: 12 ESLP students, potentially Sust.
Office (Take Back the Tap ruled out)
● Funding previously from a CSC grant
■She has a job description outline to forward to steering
● Will include website
● All of the training materials and templates organized
○ Training wouldn’t require a lot
● Would utilize two interns
■Can it be a SOAR org?
● We usually initiate the projects we keep in continuation
■Could be a Water campaign or organized as the Bike Library was/is.
● Dig this.
■Need to make sure this works for our Joycey
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● StEvo discussion
■Green Campus? IDEASS?
○ Response ideally by next week for budgetary needs, etc.
Campaign Updates(815-835)
○ Fiscal
■all P.O requests MUST be in by the 24th!!!!!
○ Waste
■Jonathan Bloom- American Wasteland
● About food waste
○ After strawberry justice festival
● SOS hooked Waste up w/ this
● Panel after screening
○ Nina was going to be student rep.
○ Jenny was interested, so she will do it
■Relay for Life (last Saturday) successfully Zero-Waste!
● First consultation by the campaign
■Movie event on May 29th @ McHenry
● Maybe will consult them as well?
■Grant for bags submitted
● Same as last year
■Meeting with Silas to edit the Zero-Waste guide
■Sustainability mixer
● They still want to do it but we don’t have the capacity
● Let’s talk about this next steering?
■OPERS Fall Fest meeting tomorrow
■Darya and Amber are missing mid-quarter
■Amrita heading landfill trip
■Peter is making dining education poster w/ Alex Villegas
■Strawberry Festival will be zero-waste
● Please sign up!!
■Meeting w/ SO Zero-waste team
● Malia Bradley, Alma
● Hopefully getting on a staff meeting to get her to sign the letter
they wrote last quarter
○ GB
■Cob oven make over on Saturday 05/19
● in anticipation of bake off
● Carlo heading
■Clrm unit 3 Forum
● next thurs. 6-8 pm @ Baytree patio deck
○ There will be sun
● Flyers and things
■Elaine
● Dealing w/ updates from CSC
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■Audit program
● Potential new internships
● Crunching numbers
○ Would like to get a campus avg. for water, gas and electric
use
● Almost ready to present scores!
C8 Garden
■Got pricing for the gate
■Meeting to finalize the supplies needs
■Should have the PO in soon
■Need a check in w/ GBC about the class
■Jarid:
● Been chit-chatting the neighboring gardeners/farmers on campus
● Created a map for the garden expansion!
ES
■has CSC evaluation tomorrow
■steadily working on the blueprint and Camila’s resource guide for the next ES
CUIP
■this week we will find out who the new CUIP is
■meeting with the Sustainability office to discuss forums about the new
campus sustainability plan (future point person?)
■camila met with Joyce to get a concise history of ES to help write the guide to
help the next person
■new blueprint projects will be up on the project clearing house
Transportation
■Gave away all the helmets!
● Lgs. ran out quick
● 40 person line
● People had to wait up to an hour
● People were stoked on the generator
■Rock the Bike upcoming events:
● Reel Change Film Festival 05/26
○ Power some lights
● Rock n Roll on the Knoll
○ more info to come
● OPERS Fall Fest
○ attending planning meeting
● Strawb. Justice Festival
● Powering ENVS grad. ceremony
○ June 15th
■Would like a flyer made to get new transportation intern
● Not focusing too much on transportation currently
● new layout:
○ Transportation campaign
■attending TAPS meeting
○ Rock the Bike
■could be its own entity
■two people running it
○ Bike Library--> TAPS
■Student paid position
■Detailed documentation
● Instructional videos for RTB
■Don Davidson contacted Andrew
● Came to their campaign meeting
● Wants to distribute bike lights
● Will help put on a light up the night
○ critical mass
○ not sure where funding/lights will come from
● Transportation can help with outreach
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SOS
■Tabling at SJF
■Gardener’s Alliance meeting this week 05/18
● Thania needs to be on this listserve
■Compost Workshop 06/02
● On the Farm
■Last GAG on 06/04
■Low key livin’
GG’s (Nicole) (835-855)
○ End of Year Celebration Volunteers
■Set-up and clean-up
● Taylor and Nicole are signed up
● 11am-6:30pm
○ 1 hr sheets
○ Rice Cooker Recap
■Let Nicole know a day before you want to use it so she can get it cranking
● By 5pm Tuesday!
● Cook crew responsible for cleaning it out
○ Volunteers for this week’s GG
● This week: Rick Longinotti
● Not sure potential attendees
■Food Servers
● Darya, Christiana
■Greeters (come at 6pm plz)
● Camila,
■Who is attending?
● Not Tash, Eliza, Szeto
■Questioners
● Put it on a white board?
● Should other people besides Nicole and Rick talk?
○ Next Year’s GG plans:
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■Nicole will probably be training someone in the Fall
● What does the Event Planning organizer position entail?
■Possibilities for GG layout:
● A: Every Week, minus week 5 and 10: SQ,
○ This allows more other groups to use our space
■DR: not a lot of people contacting Nicole currently to
use GG
■We will have all of spring in plan 2
○ Attendance has been consistently low
■there isn’t enough time in a week to advertise
● B: Fall and Winter, limit to Blueprint Breakouts, plus weeks 1 and
10 for recruitment. Spring, have a limited number of GGs and
make them ah-mazing
○ This looks good so we can put a lot of effort into these
○ People would be more likely to come
○ Up the budget for the GGs
○ Outreach has to be bigger
○ Maybe weeks 2 and 9 is more realistic for attendance
■Week one for Fall quarter though
○ Interns use GG as a majority of their time
○ It will still be a lot of work for whoever does them
○ Showcase more the campaigns and their plans
■grow excitement and longevity of postitions
○ Potentially extend breakouts to include highlights of our
and others projects
○ Outreach always no matter which option we choose.
○ Breakouts: may have less than 5
■it was a lot of work
■collaboration with CUIP and Events organizer
■Let’s have a vote!!
● Plan B:
○ Fall and Winter- limit to Blueprint Breakouts, plus weeks 2
and 9 for recruitment.
○ Spring- have a limited number of GGs and make them ahmazing
Supplies (Taylor)
■use general funds (proposal)
■New salad bowl
■More presentable dinnerware
● Cost plus
○ Replacing cups
● Salvation Army for plates
■Towels
■Sponges
■Chopsticks
■More hand sanitizer
■Maybe let’s hold off and see is SlugWare will be a viable option for this
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SUA Endorsment (855-905)
○ Co-organizer discussed it and don’t think it’s a good idea because we don’t know
everything about them and they needed a decision by today
○ Are we all comfortable with that?
■Andrew read up on it and noticed that SUA doesn’t follow through with
supporting sustainability
■Same platform every year... not for it
■Would have been a different story if they followed up after the sustainability
mixer
○ Potential new position opening up in SUA that we should discuss
○ We should all still go out and vote!!!!!
Sustainabiliteam bringback
○ Angela went to the meeting on Saturday
○ Jarid also went
■interorg collaboration on campus needs to be improved beyond sustainability
orgs
■SUAs involvement in sustainability
■Should sustainabiliteam be an org?
■Gabi passed it off, no next meeting scheduled yet
■Acknowledgement at graduation
■Coordinating better, campus calendar (too many meetings on Saturdays and
Sundays
○ So, last sunday we talked about all the cool accomplished projects that happened within
UCSC's sustainability organizations. We talked a little about future plans each org(the
ones that attended at least) has in store for the upcoming year.
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The biggest topic that I got out of the meeting that night was "How can UCSC's
sustainability team be more involved with SUA?" (vise versa)
The enviro orgs could:
-increase inputs at the SUA meetings
- be a bigger support to other non-related orgs(this will have them support our cause
too and will integrate sustainable practices for their projects as well)
Pretty much, we are encouraged to build bridges with SUA and other orgs on campus to
build awareness.
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○ If I missed anything, Jarid should be able to fill you in :)
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Higher Education Conference (905-910)
○ Vote: Joyce funding to go. She sent an email explaining how she will bring back
what she learns. She will be volunteering
○ VOTE (Approved):
■We will fund half and ask for her to ask ESLP to fund half
■Do we have enough money in the budget (ask Alex)?
○ who is going?
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■Darya (maybe)
■Jarid (will not need funding)
■Tash (maybe)
■Marissa (maybe)
○ 18th is the deadline
Outreach (Christiana) (910-920)
○ Tabling Wednesday starting at 12:30
■test run
■Weekly thing until the end of the quarter
○ cookies @ table?
■Vegan cookies!
■What about giving healthier snacks (strawberries and other berries in season)
■Could attract people who are not very interested in sustainability
■Use Rock the Bike for music or smoothies
● bike our outreach materials to table
○ Sweatshirts/Banner
■Hoodies and a new banner!
■Met with Joyce and contacted graphics guy but he didn’t get back to us yet.
Need more concrete information
● How many?
● What color?
● Back? Front?
Logos: vote/edits? (Kai) (920-930)
○ Logo 6
■make it only a circle, no banner
○ Sweatshirt doesn’t necessarily have to be the same as our SEC logo
○ Vote for our favorite (or 2 favorites) so that Kai can keep working on those
■Logo 1: 0
■Logo 2: 0
■Logo 3: 12
■Logo 4: 4
■Logo 5: 1
■Logo 6: 15
○ The logos look too much like our school logos, make them more unique
○ Eliza is not a fan of the banner
○ Logo 6:
■UCSC should be more legible
■Make it more clear and simple maybe no grey background
■Take out UCSC and have it be a circle
■Student Environmental Center on top (half circle)
■Sky should be blue
■Different font (too cursivy)
■More like Santa Cruz: green mountains!
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■Take out the circle so that you can see the UCSC letters in the background:
could look better on a rectangular banner
■Script should be off-white or white not grey
■Andrew: add farming aspect like rows so it represents our campus more
■UCSC at the bottom by the river
■Amber-year 2012 in it
○ Logo 3:
■Different font for Student Environmental Center
○ Should we each pay for half of the sweatshirt? And sell to others? We want to
give them as a gift to people who have worked with us for a long time!
○ Thinking about giving them away at events
○ Ideally we could buy more
○ Kai create other versions and email them to steering before next week
○ Next steering there will be multiple edits and we will vote on the definite logo for
sweatshirts
Strawberry Justice Festival (Christiana) (930-935)
○ tabling spreadsheet
■Reminders will be e-mailed out, please don’t be late!
○ trash talkers
■no one can edit it as of now... email Peter if he hasn’t changed this yet
○ RTB will bekkkkii there
○ SOS Flyer Approval
■no need! It’s part of the campaign’s budget
MidQuarter Check-In (935-945)
○ Darya■having 3 interns has been helpful because of all the projects
■excited to finish slugware
■wants to stay in SEC with waste and maybe jump around for the remainder of
next year
○ Amber■Frustrated with training interns because they are leaving
■Re-considering environmental sorority idea
■Might go to Costa Rica in the Fall
■Might not work for SEC in the summer because might work with Penny’s
downtown
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