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— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —� "Clean Cities" 1 Centralina City of Charlotte clean Fuels Solid Waste Services Solid Waste Services (SWS), one of the City of Charlotte's 14 departments, is arguably one of the most visible departments f within the City. Whether it's a rainy spring day or the cold of ' winter, Charlotte residents can count on Solid Waste Services to provide garbage and trash collection to approximately 212,000 residents in the City per week. Since 2007, the City of Charlotte's Environmental Cabinet's 1 bydear burning aim has been to reduce environmental burdens from business O�ryr °'gas activities and promote green purchasing practices throughout the City. Following this initiative, SWS incorporated alternative- 1 fueled refuse vehicles into the fleet in October 2010 by acquiring two compressed natural gas (CNG) automated refuse vehicles. Currently, there are ten CNG refuse trucks in service. Five 1 additional units are on order and will be in service by the first 1 quarter of FY 15. Plans are to have 20 by the end of the FY 15. As a next step, SWS has plans to install, by the end of FYI 5, time -fill fueling where their fleet is parked overnight so that Ci of Charlotte Solid Waste Services has ten compressed trucks are fueled and ready to go each morning, avoiding costs of no Ural gas (CNG) automated refuse vehicles in service. time and fuel to travel to an offsite fueling location. Fuel savings 1 are currently over $150,000 annually and the trucks displaced 1 approximately 86,000 gasoline gallon equivalents of fuel and 160 tons of greenhouse gases in 2013 alone. Thank you to all our Excellence Award judges! George Arena Mr. Arena served on the Lincoln County Planning Board from 2006 -2008, and was elected and served as a commis- sioner in Lincoln County from 2008 -2012. During that time, he was also a CCOG Board Delegate and served as its Treasurer in 2011 and 2012. He continues to serve on the Centralina Economic Development Council as Vice Chairman and as a private member. During his business career, George was a division manager for a large north- eastern U.S. Architecture /Engineering firm, and he was a cofounder and CEO of Microwave Data Systems, a high tech manufacturer of data telemetry microwave radios for electric utilities, oil and gas companies and other public infrastructure. MDS now operates as a division of General Electric. Bill Duston Mr. Duston served as CCOG's Planning Director for 27 years before retiring in 2012. He is currently doing private consulting work and is the Chief Planner with N -Focus Planning and Design. He is a past president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association ( NCAPA) and previously served as Vice - President for Pro- fessional Development for NCAPA for two terms. When not engaged in planning work, Mr. Duston is an avid bird- er and has traveled across the country to further this endeavor. Clean Cities A separate committee reviewed and selected the winner of the Clean Cities Award. This committee included: Bryan Steiner, CCFC Stakeholder (Charlotte- Mecklenburg Schools), Robert Taylor, CCFC Co -Chair (City of Char- lotte) [Recused], and Laurie Walker, CCFC Stakeholder (CPCC). The Clean Fuels Coalition appreciates the work of this committee and thanks them for their time and participation in the awards program. ............................................................................................................................ ............................... Centralina Council of Governments (CLOG) CCOG is the state- designated lead regional organization for our nine county region and is one of 16 regional councils in the state. The organization represents 60+ county and municipal governments and encompasses a population of close to 2 million people. Serving Anson, Cobarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly and Union Counties and the municipalities throughoikb%h 04.number:1 ............................................................................................................................ ............................... C -3 Page 70