Campus 3-20-19

April 9, 2019

CAMPUS COMMITTEE MINUTES                                                                         DATE 3/20/19

MEETING START TIME: 5:15PM

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Vice Chair Nelson, Senator Bagley, Senator McGrath, Senator Bhat, Senator Padro

Absent: Chair Blancheflower, Senator Rumas, Senator Menard, Senator Degnan

Non-Committee: Senator Marotta

DISCUSSION:

TOPIC 1: Engineers for a Sustainable World

  • Will be meeting with them soon, possibly come to next general senate meeting
  • Talking about sustainability programs they can do together
  • Possible sustainability program on the quad around the week of April 14th-20th
    • Two weeks before finals so that students can relax and not stress about finals
  • We were looking into water bottles under 5 dollars, around 500 for around $2,500 to pass around
  • We are interested in getting a table at earth day if we cannot organize an event on our own

TOPIC 2: Resolution Calling for URI to Demand DOT to Stop Pushing Back Route 138 Improvement

  • We want someone to take the lead on that project
  • We can look into sending out a survey about use of Route 138
  • If we do pass this resolution, we should have a few senators go to the statehouse and hand deliver the resolution to them to prove we actually care about this

TOPIC 3: Parking

  • No updates
  • Police are working out a plan for a license plate scanner for HOV parking
  • We have a car sharing service call Wheelie
    • It’s an easy to use app to promote carpooling
    • We could use this in tandem with the HOV plan to get more people to carpool

TOPIC 4: HRL

  • Have not heard back from HRL
  • Senator Bhat trying to get to the bottom of why none of her international student friends got accepted as an RA
  • Senator Marotta heard someone who was denied housing due all the rooms being full, but she has seen empty rooms on campus
  • Looking into any space for off campus residents who need to work a booth for first night

TOPIC 5: Second Safety Lighting Walk

  • we need to pick a date for second walk in April to organize with Baker
  • not Fridays
  • Tuesdays work for some
  • Mondays works for everyone

TOPIC 6: bus gates

  • Most of those gates open for the buses and don’t reclose afterwards
  • We should look into getting those fixed so that cars that shouldn’t be entering the center of campus don’t

TOPIC 7: Pool Equipment

  • We got new felt and pool sticks, and someone already broke two pool sticks
  • We were thinking of putting up a sign to ask for students to respect the equipment
  • We also thought maybe they could put the equipment behind the welcome desk and people have to check them out with an ID they return the equipment in good condition

Extra:

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 5:50 PM