Introduction

Part-time Faculty – Rosabeth Dorfhuber

Student Representative – Hailey Liles

Action Items

1. Approve Notes – October 1, 2025 and December 3, 2025

Information Items

• Goals for the Year – By Constituency Group
• 3. Umbrellas/ Outdoor Tables with Charging Stations Update

Mackenzie Greely: Recycling green waste How do we institutionalize some of these processes – POST consumer waste for GREEN waste.

Gerald Domingues: acknowledged the reason we have different consistency groups represented.

Need for Recycling cans –

1. Securing the equipment is facilities side. Getting the recycling containers into the workrooms…
2. Need to educate the college community – how to. 
3. Need to write for Grant Money
4. His personnel does not have time to separate trash…
5. Recycling potential problem – for inside- people who take their cans home, do not want to have to separate and not be able to take home: the funds currently are used for pay for new trash cans and signage.

Mackenzie Greely: stating it is going from the State, so why not be proactive

Education materials is free from the city all we have to do is request them.

Rosabeth – Consider including Soft plastic to be on the cutting edge  (ex: surrounding cases of water) Ablitt’s dry cleaner in SB is wanting to dovetail/ work with SBCC

Harrison Bros – organic food waste ??? – Rosabeth will follow up

Mackenzie Greely: Grant?

Gerald Questions: Who’s going to collect it, How will we collect it, where will it be held/ handled.

Item #4 Recycle Bins – Workrooms

Follow up from previous: 12 triple spot containers available for workrooms – Labels: glass, plastic, and cans

                Discussion ensued as to where to put these. Many recommendations by the committee. Rosabeth asked if any were to be shared with the LVC. Gerald stated yes.  

Item #5: Events:

1. Earth Day Events – Wednesday, April 24  Hailey Liles, Student Rep will check with student group
2.  AHC Arbor Day, Friday, April 26
3. CycleMaynia – Friday, May 8 : Ride your bicycle to work/ school Day

Future Items

• Sustainability Committee Accomplishments
• Sustainability Committee Charge

Next Meeting March 19, 2025

Other –

Rosabeth asked about monarch garden. Esp for LVC (as of last year a poluniator garden was put in on the Santa Maria campus). Rosabeth asking for LVC – CA poppies and milkweed  – possible the courtyard area

Alicia Fox / Erin Krier – have “checked all the boxes” with the student garden, but have not gotten the designation. Rosabeth will follow up with information.