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Coast Elects New Board of Directors
At
the January 23 meeting of Space Coast Clean Cities Coalition,
a new Board of Directors was elected into office. The nominating
committee presented nominations for the Board of Directors.
The Board is divided into four sectors representing different
areas of the interest in alternative fuels vehicles. New
Coalition members elected were as follows:
Automotive industry representative: April Dents
Infrastructure industry representatives: Randy Harris
General representatives: Kieta Osteen-Cochrane and Paul
Schott
Public representatives: none
At
the same time, Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasure, and Secretary
were elected from the Board of Directors as follows:.
Chair:
Paul Schott
Vice-Chair: Addison Bain
Treasure: Roberta Sirmons
Secretary: Randy Harris
You
will find the Board and Officers list on our Space
Coast Coalition Structure web page.
Grants available
for AFV projects
The
U.S. Department of Energy released a Request for Proposals
for the year 2003 State Energy Program. Approximately $5
million is available for Clean Cities Special Projects through
the State Energy Offices under this program. To qualify
for Special Projects grants, you must be a member of a designated
Clean Cities Coalition.
Proposals
are being developed and written by members under Clean Cities/Alternative
Fuels topic. Proposals are due April 25 to the coalition
and due April 28 to the Florida Energy Office. The Clean
Cities/Alternative Fuels topic had four topics dealing with
infrastructure, vehicles, school buses and coalition support.
Stakeholders interested on participating should contact
Bill Young for more
information and application forms.
AFV Odyssey Day Workshop
SC3
is planning a workshop on Alternative Fuel Technology for
June 6 and 7 at the Florida Solar Energy Center. This AFV
Advancing the Choice workshop will be a joint effort by
SC3, the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium,
Traviss Technical Center and various auto manufactures.
The workshop will cover compressed natural gas, ethanol
and hybrid vehicle technologies.
Friday
activities are focused on fleet managers and Saturday activities
are focused on the general public. Auto manufactures will
exhibit the latest vehicles and present information the
their products. Awards will be present for vehicles with
the cleanest emissions and traveling the farthest distance
in an AFV. The event is free to the public. See our web
page calender for the Agenda.
Do
you need something to read?
Florida
Solar Energy Center with assistance from our coalition wrote
three new documents on AFV technology at the direction of
the Clean Fuels Florida Advisory Board. The three different
documents are written for three different audiences to provide
AFV education to generate awareness and promote implementation
of AFVs in Florida. The documents were designed to be used
by fleet managers, businesses, educational institutions,
students, government organizations and the general public.
The documents are as follows:
-
Take a Trip to Clean Air: coloring book on AFVs
- The
Path to Alternative Transportation in Florida: flyer on
regulations
- A
Guide to Alternative Fuel Transportation in Florida: brochure
on general AFV technology
Printed copies can be obtained upon request, but electronic
copies are available on our web page on Documents.
As always, check our web page calender
monthly for the latest events.
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