Ron Dent was appointed to the board in October 2014 to serve District 1. He filled the unexpired term left by the death of Marvin Conrad. "It's important for me to serve my community," Ron said, "this is something I can do." His experience, both varied and in depth, bears this out.

Many will remember Ron's work as Director of Aviation at Durango - La Plata County Airport from 1986 to 2013. Among his accomplishments were acquiring, managing, and developing water rights for the airport; overseeing construction of new water and wastewater treatment plants; and creating and building the distribution and collection systems for all airport tenants and the BP Operations Center for water and wastewater service.

Ron was recently named an All American Triathlete by USA Triathlon and an All World Triathlete by World Ironman Triathlon.