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Commissioner Bill Wysong: from neighborhood organizer to county commissioner, priorities shaped by wildfire experience
Summary
Bill Wysong, El Paso County commissioner for District 3, described his varied background, how community fights after the Waldo Canyon Fire led to public service, the demands of serving on many boards and his early priorities: public safety, water, land use and veterans.
Bill Wysong, newly elected El Paso County commissioner for District 3, told the Beyond the Deus podcast he spent roughly six months in office learning county processes, serving on about 14 boards and prioritizing public safety, water and land-use issues.
Wysong described a varied career before office: he said he worked as a building inspector performing USDA rural-housing inspections, spent eight years as a home inspector, worked in private water companies and spent 28 years in the telecommunications industry. He said he moved to Colorado Springs in 1986.
His community activism began after surviving the Waldo Canyon Fire in 2012 and opposing a proposed multifamily development at a critical evacuation…
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