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The Forum believes that Colorado should pursue a balanced energy policy and exercise leadership in energy production, conservation, efficiency, and the development of alternative energy technologies. We believe that Coloradans should ensure access to ample, reliable, affordable, and healthy energy sources to heat their homes, power their businesses, and transport themselves and their products. We recognize that Colorado’s oil and gas sector will continue to contribute to these goals, even while renewable energy sources gain traction statewide and nationally. We are sensitive to the economic needs of some Colorado communities as Colorado transitions towards low/no emission energy sources.
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In addition to her accomplishments in business, Ms. Fontneau has devoted years to civic leadership, with a passion for Colorado. Complete the three-question quiz, and you’ll get a score you can share on your fave social media site—or you can keep going with the quiz fun by taking quizzes from previous days. In her role, Megan drives brand unification, organizational storytelling, and high-impact engagement strategies that enhance Intermountain Health’s reputation and influence. She works closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure purposeful messaging, impactful campaigns, and seamless communication across the system’s six-state footprint.
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- The effectiveness of the Colorado Forum is based on a history of success in identifying, studying, and advancing solutions for myriad public policy challenges facing the State of Colorado.
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While safeguarding Colorado’s unparalleled natural environment and improving the health and safety of all Coloradans, we support energy policies that will empower our State and our citizens. Strong strategic partnerships throughout the state allowed the Exchange to exceed all sales and financial goals during Ms. Fontneau leadership. Ms Fontneau also ran the operations of Holme Roberts and Owen, a regional law firm. She managed the partnership through an economic downturn, reducing expenses by $10M and improving revenue per attorney by 13%, during difficult economic times. This breadth reflects a deep commitment to systems-level change and cross-sector collaboration. The rapid rise of natural gas fracking technologies in the early 2000’s underpinned a boom for Colorado’s oil and gas sector and increased jurisdictional disputes between local governments and industry.
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It is urgent and essential that our leaders in Congress and the President of the United States put in place a plan to address our skyrocketing debt/deficit and manage our domestic policy. Colorado’s fiscal system has a structural imbalance – created by inherently conflicting constitutional mandates – that will continue to widen the gap between General Fund revenue and necessary expenditures. Even as Colorado’s economy improves, the imbalance, although unintentional, will persist because of contradictory constitutional provisions initiated and passed by Colorado voters at different points in time.
Our membership played pivotal roles in many important success stories for the State. The Forum is the founder and fiscal administrator for Building a Better Colorado, a nonpartisan, charitable effort to engage Coloradans in a conversation about our State’s future. The Colorado Forum was instrumental in the timely and safe cleanup and closure of the Rocky Flats nuclear facility.
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We have worked closely over the years with local, state, and federal governments as well as nonprofit organizations and businesses to affect positive change. Currently, our primary focuses are in the areas of fiscal policy, broadband, education, health care, energy, immigration, transportation, water, and a healthy Colorado. The Colorado Forum has been deeply engaged on matters of state fiscal policy for more than four decades. The Forum convened the Fiscal Planning Project which worked to examine the State’s financial situation, inform Coloradans about the fiscal challenges facing the State, and develop options for viable solutions.
Despite ongoing efforts to create new efficiencies, reduce expenditures, and stimulate job growth, it is evident that Colorado cannot rectify this structural fiscal imbalance simply with budgetary cuts and/or stimulating economic growth. Until additional resources are generated, recurring budget cuts will continue to jeopardize some of the State’s most important projects and services, including PreK-12 education, our higher education institutions, and our transportation infrastructure. Coloradans need to determine what state services they wish to preserve and what they are prepared to eliminate, given these fiscal constraints. Most recently Ms. Fontneau developed and served as president of the national Benefit Exchange and Technology Solutions health plan business at Cigna, generating over $1 billion/year in revenue in US commercial health insurance. She also led the prioritization and execution of over $50M in technology infrastructure investments through 26 agile teams.
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In 2015, the Forum, along with other civic and business leaders, initiated a research, education, and outreach endeavor, Building a Better Colorado. The initiative is exploring the imbalance between citizens’ expectations of the services that government should provide and the ability of their government to address those expectations. Building a Better Colorado is convening 37 community meetings across the State in 2021, as it has for the previous several years. Megan also oversees Community Health, providing strategic leadership, building key external relationships, and evaluating programs that improve healthcare access and outcomes. Her work is instrumental in fostering community partnerships and initiatives that drive meaningful change.
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- In her current capacity, she advances the Foundation’s strategic priorities by supporting initiatives that expand access to effective health and wellness programs, positive youth development opportunities, and high-quality education across Colorado.
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The Forum played an important role in the passage and successful implementation of the Denver preschool program. We worked for over 20 years to achieve the successful completion of the Animas La Plata water project in Southwest Colorado, and we were a key advocate and leader for the development of Denver International Airport. According to Social Media Today’s survey of 2016 content marketing trends, consumers love to engage with quizzes, games, and polls.
We encourage each affected sector to acknowledge the needs and concerns of the other. After years of litigious controversy, in 2018 Colorado’s Supreme Court addressed how to balance negative environmental and human health impacts of drilling and fracking with the beneficial labor and economic contributions of Colorado’s energy sector. Its ruling and subsequent legislative action gave primacy to health and environmental concerns over extractive rights. Before the 2018 ruling, and since low-emission legislation was signed into law in 2019, the Forum has worked to broker understanding and collaboration between the oil and gas sector and local control, environmental, and health advocates. The effectiveness of the Colorado Forum is based on a history of success in identifying, studying, and advancing solutions for myriad public policy challenges facing the State of Colorado. We engage in deep research and thoughtful discussion, invite and listen to advocates on every side of an issue, and partner with others to create positive outcomes for Colorado and its citizens.
She serves as the president of the Intermountain Community Care Fund, which focuses on social drivers of health and aligns with support partners working to meet the needs identified in the Community Health Needs Assessment. Kayte is a Senior Program Officer for The Anschutz Foundation, bringing more than 20 years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors to her role. In her current capacity, she advances the Foundation’s strategic priorities by supporting initiatives that expand access to effective health and wellness programs, positive youth development opportunities, and high-quality education across Colorado.