 Colorado Civil Rights Director Retires
Wendell Pryor, the Civil Rights Division Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, retired July 31 after five and a half years of service. The Civil Rights Division is charged with enforcing the state's anti-discrimination laws in the areas of employment, housing, and public accommodation. The division also provides training and information regarding current laws.
Pryor’s major accomplishments in the Civil Rights Division include: implementing an electronic case management system, guiding the Division through severe budget cuts in prior years, and recently reopening regional Civil Rights Offices in Pueblo and soon to be Grand Junction. Previously, Pryor served as executive director of the Colorado Association of Public Employees, human resources director for the City and County of San Francisco, and personnel director for Aurora, Colo. and Riverside, Calif. Pryor also worked in personnel for the City and County of Denver and the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Pryor holds a law degree from the University of Denver, a master’s of public administration from the University of Colorado, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Western State College in Gunnison.
Pryor currently serves on the boards of Colorado Humanities, Colorado State Employees Credit Union, LARASA, and the Rocky Mountain Children’s Choir. He has been appointed by the current governor, former governor, and former mayor to serve on several commissions and was involved with numerous community organizations, including the NAACP.
Pryor has accepted a position as executive director of the Chaffee County Boys & Girls Club, which will allow him to spend more time in Salida with his wife Janine.
Colorado Springs World Arena To Host 2008 State Democratic Convention
The Executive Committee of the Colorado Democratic Party voted to hold the May 2008 State Democratic Convention in the Colorado Springs Colorado World Arena. The site selection committee had two great facilities to choose from. The Broomfield Events Center was also in the running. The Colorado Democratic Party Central Committee also changed the traditional third Tuesday in March caucus date to first Tuesday in February to accommodate potential visits by presidential candidates. This move is in accordance H.B. 1376 passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor Bill Ritter in the 2007 legislative session. The El Paso Democratic Party will be recruiting volunteers to help with the convention. Volunteers can contact the El Paso Dems at 719-473-8713.
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Colorado Succeeds Receives Grant From Daniels Fund
Colorado Succeeds received a $75,000 Daniels Fund grant to support its mission to improve education for workforce development and economic growth. Colorado Succeeds is a non-profit, non-partisan coalition of business leaders committed to supporting educational excellence to ensure Colorado’s economic vitality and global competitiveness. Colorado Succeeds was created after the Education to Elevate Colorado’s Economy (E3) Summit, which brought together in September 2005 many of the state’s top businesses, political and community leaders. The Daniels Fund operates the Daniels Fund Scholarship Program and the Daniels Fund Grants Program in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The grant will be used for general operations.
Denver 8 TV Nominated For National Awards
Coverage of Denver City Council’s public meetings and the bi-monthly interview program Council Matters has been nominated for Excellence in Government Programming Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. The awards honor the highest quality of municipal government television programming and represent the extraordinary achievements by local governments in the production of quality programming for our nation’s citizens. Denver was also nominated for a Disability Training program designed for Denver Election Judges. The final awards will be announced Oct. 5. Denver 8 TV’s coverage of Denver City Council includes the weekly legislative session and complete coverage of City Council Committee Meetings schedule over any given month. The programming gives residents their own first-hand view of legislation, policy formulation, and work with community, business and city leaders on important civic issues. Council Matters provides the citizens of Denver insight into the Denver City Council, its members, functions and responsibilities.
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Pueblo Attorney Named CBA President
William David Lytle, managing member of Altman, Keilbach, Lytle, Parlapiano & Ware PC in Pueblo, is the new president of the 16,738-member Colorado Bar Association. Lytle is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and is admitted to the Bar in Colorado, as well as the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Colorado. Lytle is president of the John Neumann School Foundation and co-chair of the Pueblo County Colorado Teacher Awards, and he serves on the Pueblo Planning and Zoning Commission. He has provided pro bono legal services for a number of nonprofit community organizations, including Pueblo Community Soup Kitchen, Posada and Pueblo Animal Services. During his year as CBA president, Lytle hopes to further the goals of assisting members in improving practice quality, economics, and efficiency; supporting and improving the justice system; and enhancing public confidence in the legal profession.
New Denver Bar Association President
Elsa Martinez Tenreiro, associate with Pepe J. Mendez & Associates, became president of the 8,119-member Denver Bar Association on July 1. Elsa is a graduate of the University of Colorado Law School, and received her B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver. Tenreiro received the Metro Volunteer Lawyer of the Year award in 2004, the DBA Volunteer Lawyer of the Year award in 2005, and was the recipient of Channel 9’s Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2004. During her year as president, Elsa’s goals are to reach out to diverse lawyers and continue to bring more civics to the classrooms through the Democracy Education Committee.
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New Solar Panels Installed At Governor’s Residence
First Lady Jeannie Ritter and Energy Office Director Tom Plant announced the greening of the Governor’s Residence with the installation of two solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, on the Tebo Visitor’s Center at the Carriage House. Colorado will join just a handful of states that generate on-site power through a PV system for their Governor’s Residence. The project consists of two distinct PV electric systems. A 2.4-kilowatt system being built on the Pump House structure is being installed by Sun Electric Systems of Lafayette. A second system is being installed atop the Tebo Visitor’s Center Carriage House meeting facility. This 36-panel, 7.4-kilowatt system is being installed by Namaste Solar Electric of Boulder. Both systems will provide a combined capacity of nearly 10 kW, roughly double the size of the average residential solar system installed in Colorado. The two systems are being funded from an earlier energy savings project conducted by Chevron Energy Solutions at the Capitol Complex.
DAM Awarded $50,000 Grant For African Art Gallery
The U.S. Bancorp Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to the Denver Art Museum last month at a museum reception. The grant will be used for the acquisition of new contemporary art for the Yohannes Family Gallery of African Art, and to support Members’ Mondays at the museum during the first traveling exhibition to be displayed in the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, “Artisans & Kings, Selected Treasures from the Louvre,” which will open Oct. 6. The museum’s collections include African, American Indian, Spanish colonial, pre-Columbian, Asian, Oceanic, western American and modern and contemporary art. U.S. Bancorp is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the sixth largest commercial bank in the United States. The Denver Art Museum is one of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast and has an encyclopedic collection of more than 60,000 objects.
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