Early Career
Vaad earned a bachelor's degree in industrial construction management from Colorado State University. He spent most of his professional career within the Colorado Department of Transportation in many roles, including highway engineer, a management consultant, auditor, and legislative liaison. During his time at CDOT, Vaad spent 10 years working on the extension of Interstate 70 near Vail, Colorado. He retired in 1998, after 31 years with the department. He also served as Secretary of the Colorado Transportation Commission.
A volunteer fire fighter and emergency medical technician, Vaad has been elected to the Mead, Colorado Board of Trustees, the of Saint Vrain Valley School District Board of Education, (where he served for nine years, including a stint as board chair.), the Weld County Board of Commissioners, and served on the Weld County Planning Commission, the Mead Sanitation Board, the State Child Welfare Allocation Committee, and was a charter member of the Skyline High School Education Foundation.
On the Weld County Commission, Vaad represented District 2, which covered the rapidly growing southwestern portion of the county, including the communities of Dacono, Frederick, Firestone and Mead. First elected in 1998, Vaad, who rose to chair the board of commissioners, faced no opposition in his 2002 run for re-election. As a Weld County Commissioner, Vaad was noted for pressing for a regional airport in rapidly growing northern Colorado, and for a northern Colorado regional Council of Governments. Vaad also served on the North Front Range Transportation and Air Quality Planning Council, a regional group that proposed a Northern Colorado regional transportation authority, another of his regional priorities. Vaad also pushed, unsuccessfully, for the creation of a business incubator in Weld County.
Vaad is married and has lived in Mead for three decades; he and his wife, Mollie, have two children, Joel and Nicole, and three grandchildren. He has been an elder at LifeBridge Christian Church near Longmont, Colorado.
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