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Regional Air Quality
Council
Staff
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All RAQC staff can be reached at the following central
phone number
and location:
1445 Market St., #260, Denver,
CO
80202
Phone: (303) 629-5450
Fax: (303)
629-5822
General Email
Direct telephone extensions and email
addresses follow:
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Kenneth H. Lloyd (ext.
250) Email
Ken Lloyd has been Executive
Director of the Regional Air Quality Council since January
1990. As the first employee of the RAQC, Ken was responsible for working with
the Board to establish the organization and its functions and procedures. Ken
manages the staff of the Council and provides oversight and direction for the
Council's work program to analyze air quality issues and develop strategies to
improve the region's air quality.
Prior to joining the RAQC, Ken spent 16 years with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The first six years were spent as an
economist with EPA's national air programs office in North Carolina, and the
next 10 years were spent in EPA's regional office in Denver in several staff
and management functions. Included were special assignments with the State of
Utah and in the EPA Administrator's Office in Washington, D.C.
Ken has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics, with a
minor in environmental planning, from North Carolina State University in
Raleigh.
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Gerald J. Dilley (ext. 240)
Email
Gerald Dilley has been with the RAQC since June 1994 as
Air Quality Engineer.
Jerry has worked on the development of State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for
PM-10 and ozone. During the Blueprint for Clean Air process he staffed
the Technical Advisory and the Industrial and Area Source Strategy
Subcommittees. Jerry was involved with development of the CO SIP (2000), the voluntary
ozone control program for 1999-2001, and implementation of the RAQC recommended
revisions to street sanding and cleaning issues related to state regulation ACR
#16. In summer 2000 he staffed the subcommittee that produced the report Options
to Reform the Current I/M Program. More recently he worked on the
development of Redesignation Requests and Maintenance Plans for Ozone
(2000), PM10 (2001) and CO (2003). Most recently, Jerry has completed
the development of the Ozone Action Plan (2004) as required by the Early
Action Compact. Jerry is also researching the impact of
the new EPA mobile model, MOBILE6, on SIPs and conformity and diesel
emissions in the region.
Jerry graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a B.S. in
Civil Engineering and is a registered professional engineer in the states of
Illinois and Colorado. Prior experience includes 17 years (five years as
vice-president of a 70-person consulting firm) in planning and design of major
public works (municipal wastewater) projects; five years as the owner/operator
of a conventional supermarket, self-service gas station and dry cleaners; five
years as the Environmental (air, wastewater and solid waste) Program Manager
for the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments; and one year as an engineer
with the CDPHE Air Pollution Control Division Stationary Source Small Business
Assistance Program.
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Sandi
Garcia (ext. 220)
Email
Sandi Garcia is the Communications
Manager.
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Misty L. Howell
(ext. 200) Email
Misty Howell is the Office Manager
& Board Secretary. As the Office Manager, she is
responsible for personnel, payroll, accounting and financial grant
management. . Misty oversees the daily
operations of the office, assists with projects and provides computer
support. Misty also maintains the RAQC's website. As the Board Secretary, she keeps Council meeting minutes and
maintains the corporate records. Misty has been with the Regional Air Quality
Council since 1995.
Prior to working at the Regional Air Quality Council, she was an
Executive Assistant for a software development company. Misty's work
experience includes employment with an international medical supply company
and a law firm. Misty has a Bachelor's Degree in Management from Adams State College.
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Steve McCannon (ext. 230)
Email
Steven McCannon is the Program
Manager. He joined the RAQC in August of 2002. His work at
the RAQC focuses on strategies to reduce pollutants from smoking and
high-emitting vehicles in addition to outreach activities for the RAQC’s
diesel initiatives. Currently
he manages the Repair Your Air Campaign and
the RAQC's diesel retrofit programs.
Steve graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in
Political Science in 1992 and completed his M.P.A. at the University of
Colorado – Denver in 1997. This
is Steve’s second tour at the RAQC. From
1992 – 1995, he worked with the RAQC in an administrative and program
coordination role. Steve’s
other work experience includes project coordination and program management with Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO),
the Land Use Resource Center (LURC), The Office of the State Auditor (OSA),
and Policy Studies, Inc. (PSI).
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Trevor
Noel (ext. 210)
Email
Trevor
Noel is the Communications
Coordinator. Working with Sara O’Keefe, his
efforts focus on external communications, community relations, and
outreach/education programs. He joined the RAQC team in January of 2008.
Trevor
graduated from Anderson University in 2007 with a Bachelor’s degree in
Marketing, with an emphasis in Communications, and Public Relations minor.
Prior to joining the RAQC, Trevor worked as the Communications Intern at the
Madison County Council of Governments in Anderson, Ind., coordinating air
quality outreach programs.
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Kate Riegle (ext.
290)
Email
Kate
Riegle is the Program
Coordinator. Working with Steve McCannon, she
coordinates strategies to reduce pollutants from high-emitting vehicles and
outreach activities for the RAQC’s diesel initiatives, as well as the Repair
your Air Campaign. She joined the RAQC in January of 2007.
Kate
graduated from Baylor University in 2007 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology,
with a concentration in Ecology, and an Environmental Studies minor. Prior
to joining the RAQC, she had a wide range of internship experience, including a
position as an Interpretation Intern at Rocky Mountain National Park.
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