October 5, 2021 PSAC Agenda and Meeting Notes

October 5, 2021 Minutes

President’s Sustainability Advisory Council October 5, 2021 Zoom Meeting 2-3:30 pm Agenda & Meeting Notes

Members Present

Claudia Luke, Nancy Keller, Kirsten Tellez, Kindra Kautz, Nina Mendia, Megan Varnadore, Merith Weisman, Mike Domniguez, Julia Gonzalez, Mary Gomes, Mark Perri, Cody Smith, David Chun, Madison Annala, Justine Law

Members Absent

Barbara Frohlech, Annie Greaney, Madison Hayes, Molly Clemons, Claudia Mayo, Jenifer Barnett

Others Present

Tyson Hill, Kimberly Kaido-Alvarez, Alicia Hodenfield, Olivia Hughes, Jordan Daniels, Ecoshift, Kristin Cushman, Ecoshift, Sydney Kale - Student Public Research Interest Groups (PRIGS)

Vacancies

ExOfficio - member needed Faculty representative Missing - Student representative

PCLC Deadlines

• April 5, 2022 Climate Action Plan
• Implementation Plan

Important Links:

• Resilience Assessment Summary
• Sustainable SSU Website
• PSAC Folder
• PSAC Charter
• PSAC Membership
• Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitment (PCLC) Introduction
• PCLC Time Line
• Fall 2020 Snapshot
• Listserv: Sign up here
• Something to Share? | Sustainable SSU (sonoma.edu)

2:00-2:10 Introductions & Announcements

• Second Nature’s Climate Action Pursuit - 10 seats for faculty and staff; 20 seats for students. Second Nature is replacing their annual in-person meeting with four virtual conferences. Last two: October 7-8 and December 9-10 (Alicia)
• Megan Varnadore - mid-November maternity leave.  Tyson Hill will be chairing the Zero Emissions working group during her absence
• Sydney Kale - from Student Public Research Interest Groups (PRIGS) - hiring interns and recruiting volunteers - Southwest chapters - one Sonoma State intern - save the bees campaign (Environment America) sydney.kale@publicinterestnetwork.org 803/354/2789

2:10-2:15 Membership and Reporting

• Two missing members: one faculty, one student
• Faculty Senate participation - spring?
• VP quarterly meeting update (Megan)

2:15-2:30 Climate Action Plan & Implementation Update (Kristin Cushman, EcoShift) -

• Carbon Neutrality plan is done - Please review and provide comments and feedback to Kristin Cushman via the word document no later than 10/21/21 so it can be reviewed at the November meeting.
• Sustainability Tracker being developed
• Kristin will be attending the Working Groups
  • What are their strategies and what have they been working on
  • What are the gaps, what is missing
• What are the existing policies department/university and how are they implemented, etc.
• Department managers to have these discussions
  • What’s working what do you want to see happen
  • What’s not working?
• Regional Partners identification
  • What are they working on?
  • What would they like to work on
• Implementation goal
• Action items to get to our goals
• Resiliency Assessment, Carbon Neutrality Plan match/connect to Climate Action Plan
• Recommended first draft strategies
• Review content and plan

2:30-3:00 Working Group Highlights

• Zero-Impact (Megan, Dana)
  • Bike share program - approved by Alternate Transportation committee - next steps Procurement and vendor and then CPUSAC
  • CSU Sustainability Procurement Policy - has stalled out - looking to do more internal/on campus strengthening
  • Commuter Survey - please complete the survey. The results will be shared with the campus
  • Mtg with Kristin for CAP - meeting with Working group
• Regional Resilience Highlights (Claudia)
  • North Bay Forward Events - first event Oct 13, 12-1 pm
  • Topics to be Resilience as related to Climate
  • Project ⅛ mile from campus - Copeland Creek project
  • Sonoma Water new forecasting model
  • Projects at Pepperwood dealing with Flood and Fire
  • Kristin Cushman a member of working group
• Academic & Student Life Highlights (Mark)
  • Sustainability Minor - working with GEP to take on
• Strategy, Advancement and Communication Highlights (Kirsten, Julia)
  • Sustainability Pledge - moving forward - Chris Haley reaching out to community partners to get buy-in. Student Engagement next step. Still hoping for release Earth Week.
  • Earth Week - Olivia has started outreach to local organizations and public organizations - to see if they have plans - could we partner
  • Social Media: Follow #sustainablessu / @sustainablessu on Instagram, FB, twitter
  • Avatar is coming - per Julia

3:00-3:30 Sustainability Highlight: Ideas for Speakers?

Feedback: Any questions surrounding sustainability

• On hold education
• New bins on campus
• Signage