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Coalition End of Year Meeting & Holiday Party December 10, 2015

Welcome

Darwin Burkhart

Chairman, Chicago Area Clean Cities

Al Murphy

Commissioner, Forest Preserve of DuPage Co.

Introductions

Chicago Area Clean Cities Executive Board

Chair: Darwin Burkhart, IL Environmental Protection Agency Vice-Chair: John Walton, Black Dog Corp. Coordinator & Treasurer: Samantha Bingham, Chicago Department of Transportation Secretary: Tony Lindsay, Gas Technology Institute Fleet Rep: Les Faul, Commonwealth Edison Fleet Rep: Vacant Technology Rep: Rich Moore, General Motors Technology Rep: Marcy Rood, Argonne National Laboratory Technology Rep: John Schwab, Dual Fuel Systems

Please use #ChicagoCleanCities to live tweet today and post pictures!

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2015 Coalition Accomplishments

Samantha Bingham

Coordinator & Treasurer

2015 Highlights

Workplace Charging Seminar Police Alternative Fuel Summit Launched @ChiCleanCities Twitter on Earth Day Green Drives 2015 Hosted National Coordinator’s Workshop at Argonne Lake Michigan Consortium Clean Cities Hall of Fame Fleet Education Seminar and Golf Outing Airports Going Green Program Drive Clean Chicago and Drive Clean Taxi

Annual Report Results for 2014

Coalition’s Performance Last 5 Years

A Look Ahead to 2016

Membership and Annual Fleet Fuel Savings Survey

• Free membership if survey is completed
• Survey due before February 14, 2016

Chicago Auto Show – Feb. 13-21 Green Truck Summit & Work Truck Show, Indianapolis – March 1-3 CACC Discount with Membership 2016 Green Drive$ Expo and Conference, Naperville – May 19 Fleet Education Seminar and Golf Outing – Sept. 8 2016 End of Year Meeting and Holiday Party – Dec. 8 Drive Clean Station

Indicates program is currently on hold

Current Funding Programs

CMAQ School Bus: Chicago Area Only

Federal funding available from Illinois EPA for school buses in the Chicago area – Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will counties and portions of Kendall and Grundy counties $5 million awarded for heaters and particulate filters to be installed on school buses $2.7 million still available thru 2017 Eligible buses for this fund include school district-

• wned, leased, and commercial school buses

CMAQ School Bus Match Requirements

For School Districts and Schools that operate their school buses, NO MATCH for heaters or particulate filters (100% funded) For commercial school bus companies:

• No match required for particulate filters
• 50% match required for heaters due to fuel savings

potential School buses are required to stay in service for 5 more years, or heaters stay with school district

Chicago Area Green Fleet Grant Program

• Total of $10 Million in CMAQ awards focused on medium-

and heavy-duty alternate fuel vehicles, some light-duty vehicles can be included

• Propane and Natural Gas only
• New Purchase or Conversion
• Grant Program, not a rebate program – must be selected
• Will offer grants for 50% of the extra cost of the alternate

fuel vehicle, or 50% of conversion cost

• Grant amount maximum is $10,000 per vehicle <14,000

GVWR and $20,000 per vehicle >14,000 GVWR

• www.illinoisgreenfleets.org

Engine Repower Funding

Federal funding available from Illinois EPA for engine repowers or upgrades in Chicago area and Statewide $2 Million CMAQ funding available for the Chicago area, and $253,464 in DERA funding available statewide For both funds, grants can be used for new or upgraded higher tier (cleaner) engines for off-road mobile equipment, such as construction, tug boats, cranes, ports, rail yards, etc. Match requirements differ – call IEPA or see www.illinoisgreenfleets.org.

Drive Clean Chicago

Drive Clean Chicago Administered by: CDOT www.DriveCleanChicago.org

• TRUCK: 80% incremental costs of Electric & HYBRID Class 2 – 8 trucks, vans, & buses
• TAXI: 80% incremental cost for CNG and Electric Public Passenger Vehicles in Chicago
• STATION: Grants for public CNG and Fast Charge stations

Dave Sloan

Chicago Automobile Trade Association President and Chicago Auto Show General Manager

Membership Program

John Walton

Vice Chairman, Chicago Area Clean Cities Vice President, Black Dog Corporation

2016 Green Drive$ Expo & Conference

Sponsorship Opportunities

Joe Koenig

PR Manager, Chicago Area Clean Cities President, Make Ideas Reality Communications Office: (708) 414-1065 Joe@ChicagoCleanCities.org Twitter: @TheJoeKoenig

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Chicago Area Clean Cities’ Annual Sponsor: Platinum

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Chicago Area Clean Cities’ Annual Sponsors: Gold and Silver

Announcing Our New Sponsor

2015 News Coverage Overview

• More than 40 news stories:

WGN-TV News Chicago Tribune The Daily Herald Fleet Owner Government Fleet Green Fleet Next-Gen Transportation News

• More than 400,000 estimated views
• 1,400 social shares

THIS IS CLEAN CITIES JEOPARDY!

2015 Clean Fuels Champion

Past Clean Fuels Champions

2001 State Representative Phil Novak 2002 Melinda Latimer, U.S. Department of Energy, Chicago 2003 Forest Preserve District of DuPage County 2004 Advance Presort Service 2005 Village of Downers Grove 2006 Douglas Dittrich, General Motors 2007 Chicago Depts. of Environment & Fleet Management 2008 Congressman Peter Roskam 2009 Congressman Mark Kirk 2010 Groot Industries 2011 Ted Barnes, Gas Technology Institute 2012 Chicago Dept. of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection 2013 Trillium CNG 2014 Ozinga

http://wgntv.com/2015/10/22/south-side-business-recognized-for-green- efforts/#ooid=RpbHBjeDo95UQ_15-_eoTRkdQ779vLML

WGN-TV

2015 Clean Fuels Champion Award

Barbara Daly Facilities and Quality Assurance Manager

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