Jack Pelton

From Sunshine Review

The KEEP Commission
Members of KEEP
Jack Pelton Steven Baccus Amy Blankenbiller Jim Boone David Braaten Casey Cassius Yvonne Cather Patty Clark Johannes Feddema Ashok Gupta Colin Hansen Nancy Jackson Mike Kelley Mark Knight Annie Kuether Stuart Lowry William Moore Emil Ramirez Charles Rice Bruce Snead John Wong
Kansas Sunshine

Jack Pelton is the CEO of Cessna Aircraft, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Before becoming the CEO of Cessna, Pelton was Cessna's Senior Vice President of Engineering. Before joining Textron in 2000, Pelton was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Programs at Fairchild Dornier. Prior to this, he worked at Douglas Aircraft for over two decades.^[1].

In May 2008, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Pelton to chair the KEEP Commission, a group she established by executive order with the purpose of providing "recommendations to the Governor to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Kansas."

In 2004 it was disclosed that Pelton purchased his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Hamilton University.^[2] References to these degrees have since been removed from his official biography.

Pelton testified in favor of a property tax increase to build an aviation training facility that would benefit Cessna at an August 9, 2006 Sedgwick County Commission meeting.^[3] At a December 12, 2006 meeting of the Wichita City Council, Cessna applied for industrial revenue bonds that include an exemption from paying property tax on property purchased with IRB proceeds.^[4]

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• Executive Order establishing the group
• Kansas group appointed to look at climate change, May 10, 2008, Lawrence Journal-World.

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