MEETING START TIME: 6:00 PM

 ATTENDANCE: Boutmy, Cocozza, Strobel, Taylor, Devine, Howard, Saint Luis, Speckmann, Lawrence, Igbineweka, Flath, Ashamu

Committee: Boutmy, Cocozza, Strobel, Williams, Igbineweka, Flath, Howard, Saint Luis, Ashamu

Absent: Williams

Non-Committee: Taylor, Devine, Lawrence

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

• Parking
  • Met with Director Paradise with Andy
  • Hiring outside shuttle system twice a day to campus to Schneider building
  • Free for labs, engineering majors, have a drop off at train station
  • Have not solved nursing shuttle yet, but got bus to stop at nursing building first
  • Plenty of parking for engineering and staff members
  • Still solving out for nursing majors
  • Ripta complaints campaign
  • Have a safe ride program not through the police from 7:00 PM to 2-:30 AM
  • Must clarify safe ride to students
  • Students employed to use the van
  • Two students at same time in the car
  • 291 parking spots being take away for new residence hall
  • Parking consultants hired, it might be freshman and sophomores not being able to have cars on campus residents only
  • Going to block off dairy barn once new construction starts
  • 66 Ripta only one that goes from URI to Providence
  • Marching band takes up parking spaces in Fine Arts lot, figure out a plan with them
• Garbage Trucks
  • More complaints about garbage trucks
  • Working to have it moved to 8:00 AM
• Projects
  • Work on campus wide project, research ideas for campus
  • Posting pictures of unique places on campus
  • Need to make a committee for cable
  • Trying to advertise groups on campus or fun things for students to do
  • Meal plans at other universities
  • Opinion bill on allowing tank tops
  • More speed bumps near Burnside, Hope and Heathman

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6: 36 PM