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Thomas Davidson - Summit County Commissioner
Thomas C. Davidson, 46, came to Summit County in November of 1985 from a family farm in eastern Kansas. He got his first job at Arapahoe Basin as a chairlift operator with a starting wage of $3.35/hour and lived in Sagebrush Employee Housing at Keystone. Thomas spent the next twenty-two years working at Keystone Resort. His last position was as a Director of Development for Vail Resorts.
In December of 2006, the Summit County Democratic Party selected Thomas to fill a vacancy on the BOCC. He was sworn into office in January 2007.
As Commissioner, Thomas
- has focused attention on affordable housing, affordable childcare and affordable health care.
- currently serves as the County's representative for and is Chair of the Summit Combined Housing Authority.
- has served the past eight years on the board of Early Childhood Options, which successfully started the County's Head Start program and won voter approval of the County's own Right Start program.
- has served on the task force that just completed a health assessment of Summit County and a 5-year plan for improving accessibility, affordability and availability of quality health care.
- serves as Summit County's voting member of Colorado Counties, Inc. (CCI), which represents and advocates for the concerns of all county commissioners to the state legislature and Governor's office.
- was recently elected by CCI to serve on the Public Lands committee for the National Association of Counties, which advocates for funding and good policy at the national level.
- serves as the County's voting representative to Club 20, an organization of local governments and businesses that represents the interests of all counties on the Western Slope.
Thomas also gives his time to several nonprofit organizations, notably as a trustee of The Summit Foundation and as the secretary of the Foundation's executive board; on the High Country Regional Council of the El Pomar Foundation; and on the board of directors for the Credit Union of the Rockies.
Thomas is a member of Summit County Rotary Club and the High Country Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.