BOARD OF DIRECTORS

NON-VOTING BOARD MEMBER

Vacant
RAQC

CHAIRMAN

David Jones
City of Arvada
djones@arvada.org

VICE CHAIRMAN

Libby Szabo
Jefferson County
commish1@jeffco.us

SECRETARY

David Beacom
City and County of Broomfield
dbeacom@broomfieldcitycouncil.org

TREASURER

Randy Ahrens
City and County of Broomfield
rahrens@broomfieldcitycouncil.org

BOARD MEMBER

Marc Williams
City of Arvada
mwilliams@arvada.org

NON-VOTING BOARD MEMBER

Shelley Cook
RTD
shelley.cook@rtd-denver.com

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Bill Ray
JPPHA
info@jppha.org

Bill is currently the executive director for the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority. For thirteen years, he served as Arvada Deputy City Manager and retired in June 2018.  During his 18-year career with Arvada, Bill served as Director of Public Works and Utilities for five years and in 2007, he was the interim director of the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Now in his 42nd year of public service, Bill has worked in communities ranging in size from under 1,000 to 100,000+ residents. Prior to Arvada, he had a 22-year tour of duty on the Western Slope. Seventeen of those years were spent as city manager for Pagosa Springs, Grand Lake and Cortez, with positions in the San Luis Valley (Council of Governments Planning Director) and the Southern Ute Indian Reservation (Economic Development Director). He has served as president of the Colorado Municipal League and as president of the Colorado City/County Managers Association. He has occasionally been an instructor with the CU Graduate School of Political Science, Center for New Directions.

Bill received his M.P.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his B.A. in American Studies from the University of Denver.

He received a lifetime achievement award from the Colorado City and County Managers Association in 2018.