Capital Construction Assistance Board (CCAB)

Upcoming CCAB Meetings, Times & Location:

April 24, 2013 - from 1:15-3:30 p.m. Location: 201 E. Colfax Avenue, Room 101, Denver, CO 80203

May 28-30, 2013 (BEST Grant Selection Meetings) - from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: 1500 E 128th Avenue, Thornton, CO 80241 at the Adams 12 Conference Center, in the Aspen Board Room;

July 24, 2013 - from 1-3:30 p.m. Location: 201 E. Colfax Avenue, Room 101, Denver, CO 80203

August 28, 2013 - from 1-3:30 p.m. Location: 201 E. Colfax Avenue, Room 101, Denver, CO 80203

September 25, 2013 - from 1-3:30 p.m. Location: 201 E. Colfax Avenue, Room 101, Denver, CO 80203
 

View Current Board Packet

View Archived Meeting Minutes and Agendas

View CCAB Rules, Resolutions, Powers and Duties

If you would like to contact the Assistance Board, send them an email here.

David Van Sant - Board Chair

David Van Sant has a B.A. from St John's University, M.A. from Illinois State and his PhD. from the University of Colorado. At the time David was elected to the CCAB he was the Superintendent of Strasburg Schools. He is married to Shary and has 3 college aged students: Zach at UNC graduate school, Sean at CU- Denver, and Evan at Metro State College.
He has spent 35 years in education, all in Colorado. During those 35 years he has served in a variety of administrative positions in Colorado Springs, Fort Lupton, Craig, Trinidad and Strasburg. David was also the executive Director of the East Central BOCES in Limon. During this time he has been the president of the State Superintendent’s group and the president of the State BOCES Association. He has taught courses Aims, Pikes Peak, and Trinidad State Community Colleges. He has also taught for Adams State, Colorado State and the University of Colorado as an adjunct staff member.
David has received numerous State and local awards throughout Colorado. He has been a part of 5 bond campaigns in three different communities in Colorado. He is the most pleased with the number of students and teachers that he has been able to help in the past 35 years.

Lyndon Burnett - Board Vice-Chair

Lyndon Burnett is currently the school board president for Agate School District 300. His previous work experience includes: 1972-1976 Worked part time for Gene White Electric Company while attending Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. In 1976 worked for Brown & Root Construction Company for six months while obtaining Texas Real Estate License. 1977-1980, Sold residential Real Estate and then solicited residential mortgages. 1981-1983, Loan Officer for D. Ansley Company, Inc. a subsidiary of Frost Bank in San Antonio, Texas. Served as Real Estate Broker for the company and the job consisted of making commercial loans in the South Texas market for a variety of nationwide life insurance companies. 1983-1993, Owned and operated Burnett Properties Company in San Antonio, Texas selling commercial, residential, and farm & ranch properties. 1993 to present, Manager of J & V Diller Ranch LLC, a family owned cattle operation. Still semi-active in Real Estate as Lyndon D. Burnett, Broker since 1993 in Colorado. 

John Conklin

John Conklin is a licensed professional Architect with over 35 years of experience in project design, project management and public school district owner representative services. A significant number of John's projects have included K-12 public schools. Thirteen years of John's professional career included working with both Jefferson County Public Schools as Coordinating Architect (7 years), and Douglas County School District as Project Manager (6 years). Both positions involved providing professional owner's representative services for all types of K-12 public school projects, from facility assessments, through establishment of project scopes and budgets, architectural and engineering consultant selection, project programming and design, bidding, construction administration, project closeout and warranty services. John's most recent work while with Douglas County School District was managing the writing and submittal of the CDE BEST grant application for life safety upgrades at Douglas County High School. The submittal of this grant application resulted in the successful matching grant award by CDE, and followed with John's management of the design and construction of the life safety upgrades with the architectural consultant and construction firms.
After leaving Douglas County School District in December 2012, John is now providing professional services as a consulting architect to architectural firms and building product manufacturers.

Kathy Gebhardt's practice is focused exclusively on advocacy to ensure equal access to public education. After practicing law in private firms for nearly 20 years, she, along with Alex Halpern, founded Children's Voices, Inc. Kathy has handled complex and class action litigation. She was lead co-counsel in Giardino v. State of Colorado, which challenged the funding structure for capital construction in Colorado. The settlement of the case led to the Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) legislation. Kathy works closely with education advocacy and policy groups to help educate the public as to the challenges that must be overcome to achieve access to a quality public education.

Kathy is a member of the Board of Directors for Great Education Colorado, Rural and Community Trust, and Colorado Lawyers Committee. She is a past board member of the Alliance for Quality Teaching. She has worked as a consultant with the Education in the Public Interest Center in Boulder, Colorado. She received her law degree from the University of Denver College of Law and her bachelor of arts degree from Lewis and Clark College.

Pete Hall is currently the Director of Facility Services for Poudre School District R-1 in Fort Collins, CO. Poudre School District is the ninth largest district in Colorado, serving approximately 26,900 pre k-12 students. His tenure with the district began in 1991, serving as director since 2001. Since then, sustainability as a business model has been a major focus of his. The district's learning goals have been amended and now include sustainable operations in support of children's education, an accomplishment that has great promise, integrated as part of student achievement through measurable goals. Pete is a member of, and one of the directors for, the Colorado School Plant Managers Association (CSPMA); he also belongs to the Colorado Association of School Business Officials (CASBO). Pete has been married for 28 years to Paula, has one son, Michael, who is currently a senior at CSU, three horses, and one dog. His pastime activities include being a liturgical musician, horseback riding, fly fishing, hiking, and home improvement.

Pete Jefferson
Pete Jefferson, PE, LEED-AP, HBDP earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He currently serves as Vice President and Principal at M.E. Group, a mechanical, electrical, and sustainability consulting firm with an office in Denver. He is a LEED accredited professional, and has earned certification from ASHRAE as a High‐Performance Building Design Professional. Pete joined M.E. GROUP in 2000, and has worked in Denver since 2001.
Pete has been a designer and advocate for the use of energy efficient building systems in a variety of project types including schools. One particular area of focus for him is the use of geoexchange (also called geothermal) heating and cooling systems. He led the design of the geoexchange system at Palmer Ridge High School (Monument, CO). Palmer Ridge High School is one of the
largest geoexchange installations in the state of Colorado, and has attracted publicity from a number of agencies for its energy efficiency. He is also currently working on several projects that are attempting to become Net-Zero Energy buildings, including the first school in Colorado.
As a champion for sustainability, Pete currently serves on the USGBC Colorado Green Schools Advocacy Committee and is helping to develop a Colorado Schools Sustainable Best Practices Guide. He has presented workshops and seminars on high performance systems for the United States Green Building Council, American Groundwater Trust, University of Colorado, and to other groups throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Since 2009, he has also served as a consultant to the Colorado Governor's Energy Office in their High Performance Building Program.

Greg Randall

Greg Randall is currently the Superintendent for Plateau Valley School District 50 in Collbran, Colorado.

Norwood Robb

Norwood Robb “Robby” is currently the Board Treasurer of the DSST Public Schools who operate open-enrollment STEM charter schools and is part of the Denver Public Schools (DPS) System. DSST Public Schools currently serves over 1,400 students on three campuses. DSST Public Schools have been approved to open two additional secondary school campuses (grades 6-12) in 2012, and 2013. In addition he is the immediate past Treasurer and Board Member of the Colorado Bioscience Association (CBSA). In 2006 the Colorado League of Charter Schools gave "special recognition to him for his work as a charter school board member and founder." Robby served on the University of Colorado Board of Regents representing the 6th Congressional District for 18 years and is now a Regent Emeritus. The members of the Sixty-third General Assembly honor him with House Joint Resolution 02-1064 "for his dedication and leadership during his 18 years on the University of Colorado Board of Regents, as well as his service to the state of Colorado." He has had two successful business careers, first working for large corporations and then as an entrepreneur of his own companies. His corporate background includes working for Martin Marietta and Boeing as an engineer, strategic planner, marketing director, and chief information officer (CIO). He owned three companies (Chairman/President/CEO): Jones Real Estate Colleges, Mega Dynamics International and C4 Network, Inc. The Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce awarded the 1991/92 Emerging Business of the Year Award to C4 Network, Inc.
His education includes a Master of Business Administration in Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Denver. He also completed the course work toward a Master of Science in Operations Research at the Florida Institute of Technology. He also completed a Graduate Certificate Program in Alternate Dispute Resolution at the University of Denver.

Tom Stone

Tom Stone attended Minnesota State University, from 1993-1995, studying construction management. Tom currently is a Project Executive for Adolfson & Peterson Construction.

Ted Hughes - Director of Capital Construction

Ted Hughes joined CDE in 2001 to develop and administer a program to assist school districts, charter schools, and institute charter schools with capital construction needs. The program provided grants for projects to address health and safety issues, major maintenance, renovations and additions, and sometimes new schools. It also provided technical assistance to school districts and charter schools. Additionally, Ted applied for, received and administered a federal grant to assist with capital projects; Ted administers a federal “interest free” loan program; and Ted administers a charter school capital construction grant program.
In 2008, the Commissioner of the Colorado Department of Education, with input from the State Board of Education and the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board, appointed Ted to be Director of the newly created Division of Public School Capital Construction Assistance, commonly called Building Excellent Schools Today or BEST. The BEST program provides financial assistance to school districts, charter schools, institute charter schools, BOCES, and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind for facility needs. In addition, the Division provides extensive technical support, oversees the federal “interest free” loan program, and the charter school grant program.
While at CDE, Ted has visited most school districts and many charter schools to walk-through their facilities and is familiar with facility conditions statewide.