{"id":800628,"date":"2019-10-23T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373409"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:48:15","slug":"bob-hartzell-priorities-include-listening-learning-and-participating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/bob-hartzell-priorities-include-listening-learning-and-participating\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Hartzell: Priorities include listening, learning and participating"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-23-at-11.49.40-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-23-at-11.49.40-AM.png 426w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-23-at-11.49.40-AM-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\"><figcaption><strong>Bob Hartzell<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupation: Part-time ski instructor at Ski Cooper<\/li>\n<li>Hometown: Leadville<\/li>\n<li>Years in Colorado: 49 years<\/li>\n<li>Family: Married, three married sons, six grandchildren<\/li>\n<li>Civic involvement: Leadville City Council member and mayor pro tem; High Riders Snowmobile Club president, 2018-2019; Four Seasons Homeowners Association president; Lake County Airport board of advisors vice chair; Boom Days board of directors vice president; and Community Coffee weekly forum moderator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 1966, following my graduation from St. Cloud State<br \/>\nUniversity in Minnesota, I was drafted and served two years in the U.S. Army,<br \/>\nthe last year with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, South Vietnam. When I<br \/>\nreturned home, I secured a teaching position in Waseca Minnesota, and learned<br \/>\nto ski. I left Minnesota the following school year and taught in Ashland,<br \/>\nWisconsin, and skied. I arrived in Leadville in fall 1970 because of<br \/>\nLeadville\u2019s proximity to skiing and, for the next three years, taught business<br \/>\nsubjects at Lake County High School. In 1973, I served as assistant area manager<br \/>\nat Ski Cooper. As Cooper was a seasonal job at that time, I was hired by the<br \/>\nClimax Molybdenum Mine in springs 1974 and delivered dynamite until fall 1974,<br \/>\nwhen I was hired by Copper Mountain as a lift mechanic. After two years of<br \/>\nwrenching, I became the director of lift operations and hired, trained and<br \/>\nsupervised the lift operators at Copper Mountain. In 1979, I returned to<br \/>\neducation by becoming an instructor of business and ski area operations at<br \/>\nColorado Mountain College in Leadville. Over the next 25 years, I moved from<br \/>\nski ops and business subjects to become the assistant campus dean. After three years<br \/>\nas the assistant dean, I went back to the classroom as a professor of business.<br \/>\nFrom there, I became the collegewide faculty development coordinator, then the<br \/>\nfounder and director of Central Rockies Leadership (10 years) and Leadership<br \/>\nLeadville (7 years) before finishing out my 25 years at CMC as the campus dean.<br \/>\nFollowing CMC, I invested in and managed some real estate, served for 5 1\/2<br \/>\nyears as president and executive director of the National Mining Hall of Fame<br \/>\nand Museum, powder guide on Cooper\u2019s Chicago Ridge and, most recently, a part-time<br \/>\nski instructor for Ski Cooper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priority No. 1: Listen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t pretend to know all there is to know about Colorado<br \/>\nMountain College, and I will start by listening and asking questions. The<br \/>\ncurrent CMC board is replete with a talented group of trustees who are not only<br \/>\nwonderful representatives for their respective counties but also for all of CMC.<br \/>\nI look forward to learning from some of the best and caring minds in the central<br \/>\nRockies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priority No. 2: Learn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even if I had come to the board fresh from my 25 years with CMC,<br \/>\nI would still have a lot to learn about being a collaborative trustee and focus<br \/>\non 1) the responsibilities of CMC President Dr. Carrie Hauser; 2) working to<br \/>\nkeep the mill levy below 4.0; 3) joining with the other trustees and the president<br \/>\nto develop and fine tune the CMC strategic plan; 4) learning the essential elements<br \/>\nto monitor relative to the progress of CMC; and 5) how to act in the best<br \/>\ninterests of CMC in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priority No. 3: Participate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will be serving as a trustee for all of CMC yet will be<br \/>\nelected as the Lake County representative. In the early to mid-1980s, when I<br \/>\nwas serving as the assistant campus dean on the Leadville campus, the Climax<br \/>\nMine virtually shut down. The number of classes being taught on the Leadville campus<br \/>\ndiminished by more than 50% in large part because of the loss of the mine training<br \/>\nclasses. The assessed valuation of Lake County diminished 80% by the end of the<br \/>\ndecade. Times were tough for Lake County. Times were equally tough for the<br \/>\nLeadville campus. We lost numerous degree programs, and there was talk of<br \/>\nshutting down the campus. That was a hard time for the Leadville campus, and we<br \/>\nworked hard to regain our status as a viable contributor to CMC. Today, we are<br \/>\noperating in the black, have more people in the dorms than we have had in the<br \/>\npast and are considered an equal partner in the overall scheme of CMC. If the<br \/>\nvoters approve the addition of Salida to the CMC district, I can see a synergy<br \/>\ncreated throughout the Arkansas Valley from Leadville to Salida that would be<br \/>\nsimilar to the synergy among the CMC sites in the Roaring Fork Valley. It is my<br \/>\njob to help keep us moving forward and to keep making positive contributions to<br \/>\nCMC as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the Summit Daily News for providing me this<br \/>\nopportunity to share my perspective of my service on the CMC Board of Trustees<br \/>\nif validated by the votes of the entire CMC district.<\/p>\n<p><em>Find more election coverage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/election\/\">SummitDaily.com\/election<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/bob-hartzell-priorities-include-listening-learning-and-participating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob HartzellCourtesy photo Occupation: Part-time ski instructor at Ski Cooper Hometown: Leadville Years in Colorado: 49 years Family: Married, three married sons, six grandchildren Civic involvement: Leadville City Council member and mayor pro tem; High Riders Snowmobile Club president, 2018-2019; Four Seasons Homeowners Association president; Lake County Airport board of advisors vice chair; Boom Days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 11:53:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}