Evansville Wins “Green Community of the Year” Award

(September 25, 2012) EVANSVILLE, IN – The Indiana Association of Cities and Towns (IACT)
today announced that the City of Evansville has earned the IACT Green Community of the Year
Award. Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will accept the award on Wednesday, October 3rd,
during the IACT annual conference in French Lick. In 2009 and 2011, Evansville had been
named a “Green Community” by IACT and this year was honored with the top prize.

“It’s an honor to receive the IACT Green Community of the Year award,” said Mayor Lloyd
Winnecke. “Evansville really is a great place to live, work and raise a family, and we will always
work to improve. Our administration’s anti-litter initiative, Clean Evansville, and our health and
fitness project, Energize Evansville Fitness in the Park, are two examples of our efforts to be
cleaner, greener and leaner.”

In order to be considered for this award, the City voluntarily completed a lengthy survey, which
covered all aspects of city operations: from purchasing to potholes. To achieve the “Green
Communities” designation, Evansville had to earn a minimum of 110 points out of a possible
203 points. Evansville’s application was compared with other Indiana communities with a
population of 50,000 or more.

Dona Bergman, executive director of the City’s Department of Sustainability Energy &
Environmental Quality, said Evansville has been very successful in implementing programs that
protect our environment while saving money. The comprehensive energy conservation
projects, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block
Grant, reduced electrical consumption by an average of 18 percent, saving 1010.3 tons of CO2e
/ year.

Mayor Winnecke added, “Renew Evansville is our effort to reduce the overall cost of complying
with stormwater quality rules by utilizing ‘green’ infrastructure solutions, which will also
beautify our City.”