State Forms Task Force on Transportation Finance

The governor's office has created a 15-member task force on transportation finance to evaluate, identify and recommend innovative new funding sources for transportation.

Some of Colorado's most prominent business and community leaders have agreed to serve on the task force. Their charge is to recommend reliable transportation funding sources to the governor from within the existing tax base.

The members include:

Tucker Hart Adams, president of The Adams Group Inc.
Joe Blake, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
Robert Everitt, chairman and CEO of Everitt Companies
Joel Farkas, principal of Gateway American Properties
Martin Hart, chairman of the board of trustees of Regis University
Wayne Hutchens, president of BankOne
William Hybl, chairman and CEO of El Pomar Foundation,
Mike Imhoff, managing director of Stifel, Nicolaus, Hanifen, Imhoff Division
Debbie Jessup, president of KeyBank - Colorado
John Saeman, owner of Medallion Enterprises LLC
Bob Tointon, president of Phelps-Tointon Inc.
Nancy Tuor, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Kaiser-Hill
Joseph Wagner, chairman and CEO of Wagner Equipment Co.
Mike Beasley, executive director of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs
Henry Sobanet, deputy director of the Office of State Planning and Budgeting.

Two Wastewater Treatment Agencies Receive Management Awards

Two major metro Denver wastewater treatment agencies - the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and the Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant - received Excellence in Management recognition from the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies in Washington, D.C., at AMSA's winter conference meeting.

The Excellence in Management Program recognizes public wastewater utilities that have successfully implemented progressive management initiatives. Metro and L/E WWTP were honored for their significant management efforts over the past several years.

For more information about Metro's award, go to www.MetroWastewater.com. For more information about L/E WWTP's award, go to www.ci.englewoodgov.org/wwtp.

RESOLVE Selected to Provide Mediation Services in Colorado

The Denver office of RESOLVE Inc. - a not-for-profit, public policy dispute resolution organization based in Washington, D.C. - will provide mediation services for two key projects in Colorado.

The Northwest Corridor Environmental Impact Study will determine if US 36 and I-70 should be connected or a new road should be built. RESOLVE will lead two parts of the project on behalf of Felsburg Holt & Ullevig, the Greenwood Village engineering firm leading the overall EIS team for the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Specifically, RESOLVE will design and facilitate the consensus-building effort among stakeholder audiences and the public involvement phase. Work on the two-year project is expected to begin immediately.

The Colorado Water Quality Control Division selected RESOLVE to mediate the Barr Lake and Milton Reservoir watershed stakeholder groups in Adams and Weld counties.

Project goals include establishing a permanent stakeholders group for evaluation of water quality in the reservoirs and find the source of pollutants, improvement of a monitoring program and establishment of operating protocols to help the stakeholder group continue beyond the time frame of the project.

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