Glenn Vaad | |
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Member of the ColoradoHouseofRepresentatives from the 48th district | |
In office January 10, 2007 –January 9, 2013 | |
Preceded by | Dale Hall |
Succeeded by | Stephen Humphrey |
Personal details | |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Mollie |
Profession | transportation engineer |
Glenn Vaad (born c. 1941 [1] ) is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. First elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2006,Vaad represented House District 48,which encompasses western Greeley and southwestern Weld County,Colorado. [2]
Vaad earned a bachelor's degree in industrial construction management from Colorado State University. [1] He spent most of his professional career within the Colorado Department of Transportation in many roles,including highway engineer,a management consultant,auditor,and legislative liaison. [3] During his time at CDOT,Vaad spent 10 years working on the extension of Interstate 70 near Vail,Colorado. He retired in 1998, [4] after 31 years with the department. [3] He also served as Secretary of the Colorado Transportation Commission. [5]
A volunteer fire fighter and emergency medical technician,Vaad has been elected to the Mead,Colorado Board of Trustees,of the Saint Vrain Valley School District Board of Education, [5] (where he served for nine years, [6] including a stint as board chair. [5] ),the Weld County Board of Commissioners, [3] and served on the Weld County Planning Commission,the Mead Sanitation Board, [5] the State Child Welfare Allocation Committee, [7] and was a charter member of the Skyline High School Education Foundation. [5]
On the Weld County Commission,Vaad represented District 2,which covered the rapidly growing southwestern portion of the county,including the communities of Dacono,Frederick,Firestone and Mead. [7] First elected in 1998, [8] Vaad,who rose to chair the board of commissioners,faced no opposition in his 2002 run for re-election. [9] As a Weld County Commissioner,Vaad was noted for pressing for a regional airport in rapidly growing northern Colorado, [10] and for a northern Colorado regional Council of Governments. [11] Vaad also served on the North Front Range Transportation and Air Quality Planning Council,a regional group that proposed a Northern Colorado regional transportation authority, [12] [13] another of his regional priorities. [9] Vaad also pushed,unsuccessfully,for the creation of a business incubator in Weld County. [8] [14]
Vaad is married and has lived in Mead for three decades;he and his wife,Mollie,have two children,Joel and Nicole, [1] and three grandchildren. [3] He has been an elder at LifeBridge Christian Church near Longmont,Colorado. [15]
In June 2005,Vaad,term-limited as a county commissioner,announced his intention to run for House District 48,a seat being vacated by term-limited Rep. Dale Hall,who ran for the state senate. [7] Vaad faced Democrat Michael Dugan in the 2006 race to in a race where regional growth and transportation funding were key issues. [16] Vaad won the November 2006 general election with about 58 percent of the vote. [17]
After his election,Vaad named transportation,public safety,and economic security his top legislative goals. [18] Because of his experience with transportation issues,Vaad was named the ranking Republican member of the House Transportation Committee and co-chair of the General Assembly's Transportation Caucus in his first term. [19] Vaad also sat on the House Appropriations Committee. [20] Vaad sponsored only two bills during the 2007 session,both of them concerning disclosure of confidential information (insurance records and employee salaries) by government entities. [21]
During the session,Vaad crossed party lines to support a controversial tax freeze proposed by Democrats to expand education funding. [22]
Following the 2007 session,Vaad was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter to a 30-member committee studying transportation funding options, [23] [24] the Blue Ribbon Panel on Transportation Finance and Implementation. [6] and also served on the interim Transportation Legislation Review Committee. [25]
In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly,Vaad sat on the House Appropriations Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee. [26]
In the 2008 legislative session,Vaad planned,as part of a package of transportation legislation proposed by Republicans,to introduce a bill to turn over responsibility for state highways within city limits to each municipality, [27] and to give cities a greater share of state transportation funds. [28] [29] The bill died in committee,as did legislation to allow citizens to form a regional transportation authority by petition. [30] Vaad planned on continuing to advance his transportation agenda within the Transportation Legislation Review Committee,which met between legislative sessions. [31] In particular,he planned on reintroducing a version of his transportation funding bill in the 2009 session. [32]
Vaad also sponsored bills,signed into law,that required that old license plates be destroyed to prevent fake plates from being installed on vehicles, [33] and to specify the location of registration stickers on license plates. [34] Another bill to be introduced by Vaad would prohibit money from Colorado's College Opportunity Fund for being used for remedial university coursework. [35]
Vaad announced his intention to run for a second term in January 2008 [6] and was nominated by acclamation at the Republican assembly in February, [36] although he faced a primary election challenge from Mark Charles Yingling, [37] who petitioned onto the primary ballot. [38]
Yingling ran a campaign positioning himself as more conservative than Vaad on issues including abortion,immigration,and taxes; [39] [40] [41] Vaad,however,accused Yingling's campaign of distorting his legislative record. [42] Yingling's campaign against Vaad also drew support from groups opposing gun control and illegal immigration. [43] [44]
Vaad narrowly won the Republican primary,prevailing with 53 percent of the vote,less than 500 votes more than Yingling—an unexpectedly strong result for a challenger who entered the contest relatively late [38] and who did not even set up a web site. [44] Vaad will face Democrat Bill Williams in November's general election. [43] Vaad's re-election bid was endorsed by the Greeley Tribune , [45] the Denver Post , [46] and the Longmont Times-Call , [47] and the Windsor Beacon . [48] He won re-election,defeating Williams with about 60 percent of the popular vote. [49] [50]
For the 2009 legislative session,Vaad was named to seats on the House Appropriations Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee,where he was the ranking Republican. [51] Vaad sponsored legislation to transfer control of some transportation projects to local communities, [52] and to allow Berthoud,Colorado to be added to the taxing district area for Aims Community College,pending voter approval. [53] [54]
In January 2009,while at the state capitol,Vaad injured his hamstring and subsequently fainted,requiring him to be transported out of the capitol on a stretcher;he had no serious injuries. [55]
In October 2009,after learning that the Colorado Department of Corrections planned on leaving a newly constructed maximum security prison in Cañon City unused due to state budget cuts,Vaad proposed selling the facility to a private prison operator,and planned on offering legislation during the 2010 session to accomplish this. [56] [57]
Vaad also planned on sponsoring legislation in 2010 to establish a "priority-based budgeting system" for the state of Colorado, [57] [58] and also legislation to have a private firm perform a "contingency recovery" audit of state spending,in which a fraction of the savings found by the audit would be awarded to the company performing it. [57]
In October 2009,Vaad announced his intention to seek a third term as a state representative in the November 2010 legislative elections;he identified his "priority-based budgeting" proposal as a centerpiece of his campaign. [58]
Vaad ran in the 2012 Republican primary election for Colorado State Senate District 23. He was defeated by Vicki Marble in the Republican primary on June 26,2012. [59] [60] Vaad is succeeded by Republican Stephen Humphrey. Then in December 2013,Governor Hickenlooper appointed Vaad to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. He began his three-year term there in January 2014. [61]
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