Election Results

If you missed the March 19 meeting, you missed the elections.
If you say “What elections”, election of the Board of Directors for the
Space Coast Clean Cities Coalition, of course.

For those who missed the meeting, your new officers are as follows:

Chair Addison Bain
Vice-Chair Richard Schaut
Secretary Leslie Schoeneich
Treasure Roberta Sirmons

Lets us all wish our new officers a successful 2001 year.

Another year of progress

It has been two years since Space Coast Coalition was designated the 75th Clean Cities Coalition on October 1, 1999. Since then membership has grown from 42 to 58 stakeholders signing MOUs, new officers were elected to the Board, and five new Board of Director positions were created. The coordinator position has been funded for another year allowing the Florida Solar Energy Center to continue their coordination efforts.

Over a hundred AFVs were add to the existing fleets of General Services Administration, Florida Department of Transportation and other coalition members. The AFV rebate program was funded again to the tune of $10,000 for the purchase of new AFVs by coalition members. Along with new vehicles, infrastructure advances within the coalition include a new compress natural gas fueling station in Titusville and another ethanol fueling station soon to be located at the Kennedy Space Center.

Happy anniversary and congratulations on another prosperous year for the coalition.

There is a new vehicle in town

What new vehicle? A Toyota Rav4 Electric Vehicle...
Where is it? At the Florida Solar Energy Center...
Who has it? Space Coast Clean Cities Coordinator...
Where did it come from? The 7th National Clean Cities Conference...

At the recent National Clean Cities Conference held in Philadelphia, several Coalitions were selected to demonstrate and evaluate various alternative fuel vehicles for one year. The Department of Energy and several auto manufactures joined forces to provide a limited number of coalition coordinators with AFVs to evaluate first hand and use in coalition outreach activities. Our coalition was one of ten coalitions selected to demonstrate a Toyota Rav4 Electric Vehicle under a no cost lease agreement to the coalition, thanks to Toyota. The coalition coordinator is to report to Toyota and DOE on the performance of the vehicle in coalition activities.

The vehicle is an SUV, remanufactured by Toyota as an electric vehicle. It does highway speeds and has a range of 80-90 miles. The vehicle comes with all of the usual comforts of conventional gasoline cars.

The vehicle is on display at the Florida Solar Energy Center, the home of Space Coast Clean Cities Coalition. The vehicle is available for demonstration at conferences, exhibits, workshops, fairs and other events. For further information contact Bill Young (321) 638-1443.

For information on future activites, see Space Coast Coalition calendar.

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Spring 2001
Fall 2000
Summer 2000
Winter 2000
Fall 1999