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The Greater Kansas City Plug-In Readiness Task Force has been formed to drive the adoption of plug-in vehicles in the Greater Kansas City Area and is sponsored by the Mid-America Regional Council and the KC Regional Clean Cities Coalition. The goal is to have a regional plan to help get the metro area ready for plug in vehicles. These efforts will make a difference in the region’s ability to secure the economic and environmental benefits of plug-in vehicles.

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Update: September 17, 2010

Progress over the summer:

  • We have focused on narrowing the scope of our planning activities to the most important items that we can accomplish with the resources we have.
  • Each subteam has created a list of their top objectives and associated actions to be accomplished.
  • We are using resources from other plug-in readiness activities across the country as they become available. For example, Puget Sound has created a document summarizing many of their plug-in readiness learnings.  http://www.psrc.org/transportation/ev/model-guidance/
  • The October Steering Committee meeting will primarily be a workshop, where we will marry and prioritize objectives and actions from each subteam.
  • Work is progressing on a letter seeking support for our efforts from environmental and business leaders in our communities.
  • The subteams are always interested in accepting help furthering their objectives. Please respond to this message if you would like to volunteer for one of the teams.

Next Steering Committee Meeting (open to Task Force members):

  • Friday Oct 1, 1pm, at the Enterprise Center of Johnson County at 87th and Bluejacket.
  • This meeting will be a workshop where we:  focus on knitting together action plans from all subteams to create comprehensive action plan, prioritize actions for all groups, create urgency with highest priority actions, and recommend achievable timeline.

Website:   http://kcenergy.org/pluginreadykc.aspx

Other Events that are coming up (with presentation by KC Task Force member):

  • Sept. 19th           EV Readiness Panel, All Souls Forum
  • Sept. 23rd           APWA Webinar on EV readiness, national audience (See: http://www.apwa.net/events/eventdetail.asp?ID=5230)
  • Oct. 15th             EV Readiness Seminar at Clean Transportation Expo, Metropolitan Community College – Longview 8am-4pm.

Update: July 9, 2010

Minutes from Steering Committee and Subteam meetings:

What we’ve accomplished together so far:

  • We’ve defined our mission, approach, and structure, and have become a Project Get Ready member.
  • We’ve created a set of charters and objectives.
  • We’ve held a broader stakeholder conference that confirmed the direction we are on and provided additional suggestions.
  • Subteams are setting tasks and outlining plans

Our next steps:

  • Please see the attached minutes from June and July.
  • It’s now time to identify the most important objectives and flesh out the plans for each.
  • It’s also time to create an achievable timeline.
  • Now comes the hard work. There is more work identified in the subteams plans than we have resources to accomplish. We therefore must select the most important objectives, identify the work necessary to accomplish those objectives, and must create an achievable schedule that balances time, needs, and resources.
  • The Steering Committee is asking each subteam to identify the critical objectives that must be met and create detailed task level plans to achieve those objectives.
  • As part of this effort, we are asking each subteam to carefully review Project Get Ready’s Menu of Actions to make sure we have all the “must-have” actions covered.
  • The steering committee will review these plans at the August 6th and Sept 3rd Steering Committee meetings, which are open meetings.
  • At that time we will review the objectives/task plans and our available resources, and propose an achievable schedule.
  • We are working to identify funding and resources necessary to support this effort

Summary of the July 9th Steering Committee Meeting:

  • We reviewed the objectives and work plans for most of the subteams.   A couple subteams had time constraints, which didn’t allow them to bring prioritized objectives.
  • We determined that there is more work identified in the subteams plans than we have resources to accomplish. We therefore must select the most important objectives, identify the work necessary to accomplish those objectives, and must create an achievable schedule that balances time, needs, and resources.
  • This task force can be most effective when established as the primary community voice for plug in readiness in the area. To this end, a letter will be drafted that can be presented to various community leaders seeking their endorsement.
  • Grants will be sought to provide funding for both planning work and implementation work.
  • Attendees:
  • Kelly Gilbert – Metropolitan Energy Center
  • Tim Gelvin – Johnson County Community College
  • Larry Kinder – LilyPad EV
  • Mark Dehner – KD Equities
  • Roland Maliwat – KCP&L
  • Ron Achelpohl – MARC

Action Items for Subteams:

  • Leads, please convene your subteam as necessary to prepare for the next steering committee meeting. Let us know if other time commitments are causing conflicts.
  • Each subteam needs to select only their critical objectives necessary for plug-in readiness and create work plans necessary to achieve those objectives.
  • Please send this to the steering committee by Aug 4, if complete, and September 1, at the latest. We will review those completed by Aug 4 at the Aug 6 steering committee meeting and those completed by Sept 1 at the Sept 3 meeting.

Next Steering Committee Meetings (open to Task Force):

  • First Fridays at 1 p.m. at KCPL Energy Center, 1200 Main, KCMO
  • Aug 6
  • Sept 3
  • Oct 1
  • Tentative Agenda, Aug 6:
  • Subteam Status Update
  • Review critical objectives and work plan
  • Identify resources available
  • Identify gaps and potential resources to fill the gaps
  • Create achievable schedule

Website:   http://www.kcenergy.org/transp-PlugInTaskForce.html

Contacts
Kelly Gilbert
Kansas City Regional Clean Cities Coalition
Metropolitan Energy Center
(816) 561-1625
kgilbert@kcenergy.org

Ron Achelpohl
Assistant Director of Transportation
Mid-America Regional Council
(816) 701-8327

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