1.
PROPANE EDUCATION
& RESEARCH COUNCIL
Virtual
February 8, 2023

2.
Call to Order
Chairman Stuart Weidie

3.
Chairman’s Report
Chairman Stuart Weidie

4.
Chief Executive
Officer’s Report
Tucker Perkins, President & CEO

5.
Industry Relations
Report
Bridget Kidd, SVP,
Industry Relations

6.
New Concept
State Rebate –
2023 Illinois PERC
Intern Rebate
Program
Docket 23834

7.
• With the propane industry having difficulty finding quality employees
to service their customers, Illinois PERC sees potential at the high
school and college level to bring in new employees.
• This program establishes a financial partnership for propane
marketers to hire these students as interns for the summer.
• Illinois PERC will reimburse the marketer for half the intern’s hourly
rate up to $7.50/hour for a maximum of 480 hours. The marketer
will be responsible for the remainder of the hourly rate.
• Project goal:
• Draw new employees into the propane industry that may not
have considered a career in the field previously.
2023 Illinois PERC Intern Rebate Program

8.
Docket 23834 – New Concept State Rebate
2023 Illinois PERC Intern Rebate Program
Amount $118,100
Applicant Illinois Propane Education and Research Council
This program establishes a financial partnership for propane
marketers to hire high school and college aged students as interns
for the summer. Illinois PERC will reimburse the marketer for half
the intern’s hourly rate up to $7.50/hour, for a maximum of 480
hours, with the goal of bringing new employees into the propane
industry that may not have considered a career in the industry
previously.

9.
2022 Workforce
Outreach
Change Order – Docket 23360

10.
The Technical School Grant Program offers $10,000 to technical schools and community
colleges throughout the country who are looking to expand their classroom lab and
curriculum to include a propane-specific program. The first change order for this program
covered the cost of approving an additional 20 schools. After sorting through the 80
applications received for the 2023 program, there are five more schools with strong
applications that we would like to accept into the program. As part of the program, each
awarded school also receives a regulator board as a teaching tool from PERC. We are
requesting a second change order for an additional $90,000 to accept these five schools
into the program and build the regulator boards for the remaining 25 schools that were
accepted after the first change order.
Docket 23360
2022 Workforce Outreach
Change Order $90,000
Amount $720,000

11.
Finance & Data
Report
Shawn Stack, VP,
Finance, Data & Technology

12.
2023 Market Data &
Research Program
Docket 23826

13.
2023 Market Data & Research Program
• 2022 Propane Sales Report vendor - $75,000
• 2023 propane forecast and state profiles update - $140,000
• Data software and infrastructure support - $117,000
• Data set acquisition and related support - $93,700
• Data process consulting for automation strategy, advanced
visualizations and support - $100,000

14.
The 2023 Market Data & Research Program supports the core data
and market research activities including the production of the
2022 Propane Sales Report, 2023 propane forecast model update,
2023 state profiles update, and the infrastructure and support to
maintain current commitments of the program including supply and
demand data.
Docket 23826
2023 Market Data & Research Program
Amount $525,700

15.
Industry and
Public Comments

16.
Old Business

17.
New Business

18.
April 26
Nashville, TN
Next Council Meeting
May 9-10
Charlotte, NC
Next Advisory Committee Meeting