Six groups were represented Tuesday night when the Cool Cities coalition presented over 500 signatures in support of Springfield becoming a Cool City. They were collected at events and a few stores over the past year.
After a winning baseball team left, most of the remaining audience had Cool City stickers on like the image above, including Mayor Davlin. Thank you to everyone who came to show your support!
We tried to be quick since it was the end of the meeting so we only had two speakers. I ended up stammering through most of my comments while I tried to shorten things up. I don't know if we made it clear to the aldermen what Cool Cities is, but hopefully we got them interested enough to find out more. Each of them were given a copy of a letter thanking Mayor Davlin for making Springfield a Cool City plus additional statements from Sustainable Springfield Inc, Faith Based Business Network, and SAGE. Any significant action that requires an ordinance change will go for a vote to the city council so it's important that they know people want them to support efforts to reduce global warming emissions.