DENVER—Gov. Bill Ritter has created a new board to oversee how Colorado spends its federal stimulus money.
Ritter said Wednesday he has appointed his economic development director, Don Elliman, to lead the group. The board will be composed of another dozen people from state government and Colorado’s business community.
Colorado is expected to get a total of $2 billion from the stimulus package for everything from road construction to aid for school districts.
Ritter said the group will answer questions about how the money will be spent but said that information probably won’t be known until federal agencies establish their rules.
The board will get information out through a new Web site—.
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
The members of the new board are: state treasurer Cary Kennedy; Secretary of State Bernie Buescher; Ray Baker of Gold Crown Companies; Reeves Brown, executive director of Club 20; Taryn Edwards, president of the Associated General Contractors of Colorado; Robert Gibson, deputy director of Colorado WINS; Sandy Gutierrez, president and CEO of the Pueblo Latino Chamber of Commerce; Tony Hernandez, director of the Division of Local Government in the state’s Department of Local Affairs; Andre Pettigrew, director of the Denver Office of Economic Development; Richard Truly, former director of the National Renewable Energy Lab and former NASA administrator; and two members of the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, Sen. Moe Keller and Rep. Don Marostica.
