AGENDA CAPTION:
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Consider the appointment of the Mayor or City Council Member to the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) Clean Air Coalition and provide direction to Staff.
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Meeting date: December 7, 2021
Department: City Clerk’s Office
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Background Information:
Mayor Jane Hughson currently serves on this body as the City’s general member appointee. Her term expires on December 31, 2021.
The Central Texas Clean Air Coalition, or the Clean Air Coalition, is a voluntary, unincorporated association that became affiliated with CAPCOG by a resolution adopted on Nov. 13, 2002. Its purpose:
• Facilitate the development, adoption, and implementation of clean air plans to maintain compliance with the federal eight-hour ozone standard for the Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties.
• Establish and monitor a regional effort toward the improvement of air quality.
• Develop policies and strategies that will provide guidance for each of its independent governing bodies about actions that will achieve clean air in Central Texas.
• Work cooperatively to achieve clean air standards that will protect public health and yet allow local governments the flexibility to select measures best suited to each community's needs and resources.
• Provide CAPCOG Executive Committee with recommendations for administering funding provided by local sources for the purpose of supporting the regional air quality plan or program implementation, assessment and improvement activities in Central Texas.
CAC membership comprises of elected officials from the five-county Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. All local governments that signed the Central Texas 8-hour Ozone Flex Plan (8-O3 Flex), a previous regional initiative to reduce ozone pollution, are members of the CAC. They include Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties; and the cities of Austin, Bastrop, Elgin, Lockhart, Luling, Round Rock, and San Marcos. Since the 8-O3 Flex Plan’s adoption, additional jurisdictions have joined the CAC. They include the cities of Georgetown, Cedar Park, Sunset Valley, Taylor, Hutto, Bee Cave, Buda, Leander and Lakeway.
The Clean Air Coalition meets at a time, date and place specified by the Coalition Chair, generally the second Wednesday of selected months. Meetings are open to the public and announced on CAPCOG's website once scheduled.
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