Present
Currently, I serve as a Director for the Divide Fire Protection District, and the lasting impact of projects I implemented as County Commissioner can still be seen, felt, and heard (or not heard) more than three decades later:
- Reduced the property tax mill levy
- Initiated a 1 percent sales tax (exempting food, medicine, fuel, building supplies) with voter approval allowing further reduction in property taxes
- Replaced all unsafe bridges in the county with modern structures
- Drafted comprehensive road standards to end the perpetration of substandard roads in Teller County
- Replaced the destroyed drainage structures in the Lakemoor West Subdivision after a major flood event at no cost to the residents of Teller County
- Reorganized the Road & Bridge Department and updated and standardized equipment
- Began to pave county roads (Kelly’s Road, Teller 5, Teller 51, and Teller Rd 1)
- Began the use of hydroscopic salt for dust control on county roads
- Integrated critical habitat protection for 14 common wildlife species into the subdivision review process
- Served on the County Economic Development Committee
- Assisted in getting limited gaming legalized for Cripple Creek
- Opened the first county park in Florissant
