National Telecommunicators Week

April 11^th – 17^th

Colorado APCO is hosting a luncheon and motivational speaker in honor of National Telecommunicators Week on April 16^th.  All you need is to RSVP to Michael Wallace at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by April 9^th.  You don’t have to be a member of APCO to attend.  The lunch and speaker are free and there is always the chance to win one of many great door prizes.  Hope to see you there.

Date: Friday, April 16, 2010

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Thornton Police Department

                 9551 Civic Center Dr

                 (I-25 and Thornton Pkwy)

RSVP: by April 9^th to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Motivational Speaker: Maureen Dieckman – Preparing Yourself for Professional Success

Some Recent Changes to Colorado APCO

Awards Ceremony

Your APCO Board has decided to move the annual awards ceremony that was normally conducted during National Telecommunicators Week to the State Conference in October.  Nominations for Telecommunicator, Supervisor, Manager/Director, Radio Tech, and IT person of the year will be accepted on-line starting in August.  The goal of moving the awards to the State Conference was to get better participation and provide a stronger recognition program for the winners.  More information will be coming on the website.

Microphone Editor Steps Down

After many years of dedicated service Heather McCarthy has asked to step down as the editor of the Colorado APCO Newsletter the Microphone.  This is a very difficult and time consuming job that Heather worked on, in addition to her normal duties.  Getting others to submit articles or items for the newsletter and then putting it all together is a monumental task.  Heather did this for all of us year after year with amazing creativity and dedication to Colorado APCO members.  I would like to thank Heather for all of her work.  Her talents will be greatly missed.  Heather will still be around serving our Chapter as Executive Council Representative and Coordinator of the annual State Conference.

Julie Buck, Dispatch Supervisor with the City of Aurora and Colorado APCO 2^nd Vice President, has offered to take over the Microphone.  Thanks Julie, we wish you well with this endeavor.