Twenty-six employees receive President’s Volunteer Service Award

At tomorrow’s (6/20) Utilities Board meeting, 26 Colorado Springs Utilities employees will be recognized for receiving the prestigious President’s Volunteer Service Award. The President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation created the award in 2003 to recognize outstanding volunteer service and inspire others to volunteer. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. at Colorado Springs Utilities, Plaza of the Rockies, South Plaza Tower, 5th floor, 121 S. Tejon Street.

The award recognizes individuals, families and groups that have achieved a certain standard, measured by the number of hours served over a 12-month period, or cumulative hours earned over the course of a lifetime.

Springs Utilities employees volunteer their time all year. In only one month this year – from April 19 to May 19 – 367 employee volunteers and family members worked on 24 community projects and donated 1,583 volunteer hours.

In 2006, 690 Springs Utilities employees, their families and friends volunteered for 120 community projects for a total of 12,000 volunteer hours, and earned the American Public Power Association’s Community Service Award. Additionally, Denise Sulski, community liaison for Springs Utilities, was named 2006 Pikes Peak United Way Volunteer of the Year. Under Sulski’s leadership, Springs Utilities employee volunteerism set new records in 2006.