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Health, Safety and Sustainability Committee Meeting — Minutes (113th Session)

Minutes / Committee · minutes · 113th session · created September 7, 2025 · updated April 9, 2026

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JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #1 7 SEPTEMBER 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 2010

ATTENDANCE Zoe Gaillard, Zaynab Mirza, Anisha Rasamsetty, Emin Soguktas (virtual)

ABSENT Excused: Karen Velazquez Unexcused: Haden Gilley

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Introductions
  • HSS Past Initiatives
    • Do Ice skating again, Jason will reach out next week
  • Goals for the semester
    • 2 RSOs assigned to everyone
      • Emails must be sent out by 9/14
    • Jaywalking to campus
      • Put signs or crosswalks to indicate students walking (Zaynab)
    • Self defense items on campus
      • Anisha was rejected for this last semester
    • Hammocks
      • Put them up for well-being day/Wellness Wednesdays (Zoe)
    • Dining
      • Make food more healthy/sustainable (Emin)
        • Reach out to Sid about this (Tanisha)

ACTION ITEMS

  • Tanisha - reach out to Sid about dining initiative
  • Everyone else - email assigned RSOs by 9/14

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #2 14 SEPTEMBER 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 2010

ATTENDANCE Zaynab Mirza, Anisha Rasamsetty, Emin Soguktas (virtual)

ABSENT Excused: Karen Velazquez, Zoe Gaillard Unexcused: Haden Gilley

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Emails
  • Initiatives
  • Vice Chair Info

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Emails
    • Karen, Anisha, Zoe, and Zaynab have sent emails
      • Waiting on Emin
  • Initiatives
    • Zaynab sent an email to Charles and Jessica about the crosswalk/transportation issue
    • Anisha sent a follow-up email about safety devices
  • Vice Chair Info
    • Elections next Sunday (9/21)
    • Come with a 1 min speech if interested

New Business

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #3 21 SEPTEMBER 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 2010

ATTENDANCE Zaynab Mirza, Zoe Gaillard

ABSENT Excused: Anisha Rasamsetty, Emin Soguktas Unexcused: Haden Gilley, Karen Velazquez

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Vice Chair Elections
  • Emails
  • Update on initiatives

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Vice Chair Elections
    • Emin is the new Vice Chair
  • Emails
    • Zaynab got a response from APTT
      • She is sending a follow up about what they want us to do
    • Zoe got a response from Homewood Recycling
      • She is sending a follow up about helping with any initiatives
  • Initiatives
    • Transportation
      • Zaynab is having a meeting with Jessica on Monday
    • Well Being Days
      • Tanisha sent an email to Jessica about this

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #4 28 SEPTEMBER 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 1031

ATTENDANCE Zaynab Mirza, Anisha Rasamsetty, Emin Soguktas, Haden Gilley, Karen Velazquez (virtual)

ABSENT Excused: Zoe Gaillard Unexcused: Haden Gilley

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Emails
  • Update on initiatives
  • General goals for the year

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Emails
  • Update on initiatives

Zaynab Initiative: Safer road crossing (maybe sign)

  • Jessica said this would be a city issue
  • Will have city contact from Jessica
  • Could be out of our scope, but will talk with Jessica next GBM.

Anisha: Initiative: Having space on campus for students to get safety supplies like whistles

  • Will have a meeting with Jessica

Emin: Dining Sanitation

  • Will look into potential initiative with Dining

Tanisha: Wellness/Hammocks/HealthBaskets

  • Will see if it is possible to set up hammocks on Wednesdays once a month, alternative is “renting out” hammocks like the rec does with sports equipment
  • Will check about vending machines for the health baskets (also could be used by safety equipment for Anisha)
  • General goals for the year
  • Ice rink

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #5 5 OCTOBER 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 4047

ATTENDANCE Zaynab Mirza, Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen Velazquez (virtual), Zoe Gaillard, Emin Soguktas

ABSENT Excused: Unexcused: Haden Gilley

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Emails
  • Update on initiatives
  • Social Media Ideas

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Emails + Update on initiatives

Anisha: Will follow up with Jessica again due to no response Zaynab: Wants to pivot, will think about new potential initiatives Zoe: Lighting in the back of Shriver Emin: Potential initiative about mental health appointments, decide between this one and idea from last week Tanisha: No response back about mental health initiatives, reusable boxes (Anisha will be taking this initiative, will incorporate QR codes to ensure returned containers)

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #6 12 OCTOBER 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 1003

ATTENDANCE Zaynab Mirza, Emin Soguktas, Zoe Gaillard

ABSENT Excused: Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen Velazquez Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Update on initiatives

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • A place to talk responded to Zaynab, asking for funding for event they will hold in the first week of November
  • Zoe will respond to Jessica’s email

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #7 26 OCTOBER 2025 / Minutes By: Emin Soguktas / Location: Brody BLC 1030

ATTENDANCE Zaynab Mirza, Emin Soguktas, Zoe Gaillard, Veda Kommineni

ABSENT Excused: Zoe Gaillard, Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen Velazquez Unexcused: Steve Yang

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

ACTION ITEMS

  • Zoe: Send emails to Recycling org + Jessica for lights initiative
  • Anisha: meet with jessica on self defense email

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #8 2 NOVEMBER 2025 / Minutes By: Emin Soguktas / Location: Brody BLC 1030

ATTENDANCE Steve Yang, Emin Soguktas, Zoe Gaillard, Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen Velazquez ABSENT Excused: Zaynab Mirza, Veda Kommineni Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Update on initiatives
  • Zoe: email approved by Jessica, will send
  • Emin: soap dispensers seem to be fixed, 2nd initiative idea seems to not be feasible. Will consider new initiative ideas, in particular about planetary health.
  • Anisha: no further updates about initiative
  • Karen: dehumidifier idea
  • Steve: will consider new ideas

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #9 16 NOVEMBER 2025 / Minutes By: Emin Soguktas / Location: Virtual

ATTENDANCE Zoe Gaillard, Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen Velazquez ABSENT Excused: Zaynab Mirza, Veda Kommineni, Emin Soguktas, Unexcused: Steve Yang

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Update on initiatives
  • Construction Questions

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Update on initiatives
    • Zoe: got a response from Jay Murphy, will be sending out another email tomorrow morning
    • Karen: dehumidified, testing the air quality - will talk to Emin at GBM on
    • Anisha: will talk to Jessica after GBM this Tuesday
  • Construction Questions
    • What is the plan for housing students after the demolishment of AMRI?
    • When will SNF Agora open up?
    • What are the potential changes that students can expect for the coming years?
    • Is there a way to increase transparency about construction projects?

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 12 FEBRUARY 2026 / Minutes By: / Location: BLC 2006

ATTENDANCE Zoe, Srika. Sophia, ABSENT Excused: Nora, Anisha, Karen, Jibola Unexcused: AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Goals for HSS
  • Potential Initiatives for the Year

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Goals for HSS
  • Potential Initiatives for the Year
    • Sleeping Pods (on Sidechat)
    • Athletics: physical therapists available for non-athletics (maybe intramural sports)
    • Campus is not ADA available
      • Public Safety does not like to drive people around, maybe get
    • There are no curtains in the athletic bathrooms
    • OIln - less than 10% of trash has to go into landfill -> are cautious about the waste in the building
      • Maybe expand to other buildings? Ames? Krieger? No lab buildings probably
      • Possible Narcan training with HERO?
    • Tabling events for Nutrition
    • Polices/Cops on Campus - is it safe?
      • Specifically referring to the sexual assault case in fall 2025
      • Survey students on campus and see if they feel safe on campus

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #11 26 FEBRUARY 2025 / Minutes By: / Location:

ATTENDANCE Zoe, Srika. Sophia, Jibola, Jacqueline, Anisha, ABSENT Excused: Nora Unexcused: Karen AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Earth Day
  • Potential Initiatives for the Year
  • Vice Chair

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Earth Day
  • Potential Initiatives for the Year
    • Transparency Act
      • Mental health issue
      • Advertising to ask your advisors
      • Has been terminated in the past
    • Nutrition tabling
      • Give out recipe cards
      • Collaborate with Food as Medicine
      • Give our fruits/vegetables
      • Collaborate with bike that blends smoothies
      • Develop a guide on healthy eating
        • Breezeway + quad?
        • 3/27 10am-12pm
    • Mental health tabling
      • HAMMOCKS
    • Safety
      • Survey about immigration, policing,
    • Vending Machine in HelWell
      • Vending machine in Rec
        • Could we potentially move it to Stuce?
      • Backup: health baskets around campus?
    • Narcan training
      • Partner with HERO
    • Winter Clothing Drive
      • Should it happen in March potentially?
      • March 8th-12th? Possibly March 6th-12th?
    • CPR training
      • Partner with HERO
      • Possibly ask Primary Care??
  • Vice Chair Elections next week!

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #11 5 MARCH 2025 / Minutes By: / Location: BLC 2010

ATTENDANCE Zoe, Srika. Sophia, Jibola, Anisha, Nora, Jacqueline ABSENT Excused: Unexcused: Karen, AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Vice Chair Elections
  • Earth Day
  • Nutrition Tabling
  • Winter Clothing Drive

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

TO-Do

  • Make funding bill for the nutrition tabling
  • Follow up with Sumire Honora: Reach out to peep regarding how to get narcan in bulk

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #11 12 MARCH 2025 / Minutes By: / Location: BLC 2010

ATTENDANCE Zoe, Srika. Sophia, Anisha, Nora, Jacqueline ABSENT Excused: Jibola Unexcused: Karen, Emin AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Nutrition Tabling
  • Dining

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Nutrition Tabling
    • April 10th 10am-12pm (time change!)
      • 10-11: Jacqueline, Tanisha, Sophia
      • 11-12: Anisha, Zoe, Nora, Srika
    • Recipe Cards
      • 50%: Baltimore local restaurants
        • Crab?
        • Lemon stick?
        • Berger cookies?
        • Old Bay seasoning?
      • 50%: healthy recipes
      • Have a QR code with recipe links
        • Find an app that can combine this -> Linketree?
          • Website with links to recipes?
        • Ex: Baltimore local, one pot recipe, dorm recipe, vegetarian
  • Dining
    • Too good to go -> last hours of dining halls: make it open to upperclassmen or a cheaper price for the food
    • Every saturday, you meet with a group and if you have an extra meal swipe, you donate it to a community fridge/pantry
      • Post this on the class SGA
      • March 28th 2-4pm
        • APO. Red Cross, Circle K, H4H
        • Clothing drive
      • Partner with H4H
        • Other clubs: Red Cross, APO, Circle K,
    • At the end of the semester, donate food from dining dollars
  • Clothing Drive

TO-Do

  • Make funding bill for the nutrition tabling
  • Follow up with Sumire
  • Honora: Reach out to peep regarding how to get narcan in bulk

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #12 26 MARCH 2025 / Minutes By: / Location: BLC 1031

ATTENDANCE Zoe, Anisha, Jibola ABSENT Excused: Nora, Srika, Jacqueline, Unexcused: Sophia AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Nutrition Tabling
  • Earth Fest
  • Meal Swipe Initiative

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #13 2 APRIL 2026 / Minutes By: / Location: BLC 2010

ATTENDANCE Zoe, Jibola, Nora, Jacqueline ABSENT Excused: Sophia, Anisha, Srika Unexcused: AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Meal Swipe Initiative
  • Nutrition Tabling
  • Earth Fest

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Meal Swipe Initiative: Do it again one more time (probably towards end of April)
    • If we need to do a different place we might end up needing a car
    • We need a sign for the event to make things a lot easier
    • Potentially switch from doing it once a month next semester to maybe once a week?
    • Tanisha will send out an email to dining about this (approval from Jessica first)
  • Nutrition Tabling: Next Friday 10AM - 12PM
    • Switched from plastic to compostable cups
      • Waiting for the fruits to be ordered by Crystal
      • We are meeting at Tanisha’s place next Thursday (8PM), she will text us more details about it.
  • Nutrition Fun Facts: Questions & Answers for the Spin the Wheel:
    • What vitamin is known as the sunshine vitamin?
      • Vitamin D
    • What is the average life of a pack of ramen?
      • 3 months
      • 6 months
      • 1-2 years
      • 5+ years
    • How many cups of coffee would a 150lb person theoretically have to drink in a short period to reach a 'lethal' dose of caffeine?
      • 10-15
      • 50-60
      • 70-100
      • 500+
    • Which drink was originally marketed as a 'brain tonic' and nerve stimulant?
      • Red Bull
      • Coca-cola
      • Beer
      • Gatorade
    • Which of these foods is the best source of calcium?
      • 1. Bread 2. Yogurt 3.Apples
    • How many cups of water should you be drinking?
      • 11-15 cups
    • True or False: Americans eat 12 teaspoons (¼ cup) of sugar every day
      • False, Americans eat 17-22 teaspoons (⅓ to ½ cup)
    • Adults need how many minutes of moderately intense physical activity most days?
      • 15 min
      • 30 min
      • 45 min
      • 60 min
    • What was the original color of Carrots?
      • Blue
      • Green
      • Purple
      • Black
    • True or False? Brown sugar is better for blood glucose levels than white sugar.
      • False, sugar is sugar to the body
  • Earth Fest (April 3rd, Keyser Quad)
    • Nora and Tanisha: 4-5
    • Srika and Amy: 5-6
    • Anisha: 6-7
  • SNACK Packs + Hammocks
    • Sometime during reading week?
    • SNACK Packs:
      • Include inspiration messages
      • Maybe some yoga poses
        • Tanisha will send out an email to SHWB about this

Zoe - 11:30-12:30 Sophia - 12-1:30