Facilities Awards

As we prepare to welcome a new year, please help us in recognizing a few team members that have personified the core values of the Facilities & Operations team. By providing us your nominations, you give us the opportunity to highlight and recognize those individuals that have represented the very best of who we are as a team.

The Maintainer of the Year Award

Annually recognizes a Facilities Services employee who over the past year has gone BEYOND their regular duties and responsibilities to meet the needs of the Colorado College Community. These attributes include individual members that have consistently:

  • Demonstrates an extraordinary commitment to the campus.
  • Makes a significant impact of effort on students, staff, faculty and/or departments.
  • Initiates and maintains sustainable, collaborative partnerships.
  • Takes positive steps to create a culture and climate of respect.
  • Offers creative solutions to issues to address challenges.

To be nominated for the Maintainer of the Year Award the individual must be a current facilities employee, who has been working at Colorado College for a minimum of one year and cannot have received the award in the previous three years.

The Adam Valdez Excellence in Facilities Services Award

Annually recognizes a Facilities Services employee who has consistently demonstrated the core values of the facilities and operations team.

  • Accountability: We are accountable to our community and to one another.
  • Excellence: We aspire to deliver quality services to our community with creativity and innovation.
  • Respect: We treat everyone with courtesy and kindness.
  • Versatility: We embrace a variety of subjects, skills, and methods allowing us to respond with flexibility.
  • Social Responsibility: We build trust through the celebration of our diverse environment.

To be nominated for the Adam Valdez Excellence in Facilities Services Award the individual must be a current facilities employee, who has been working at Colorado College for a minimum of five years and cannot have received the award in the previous three years.

The Team Award

Recognizes a Facilities Services team/group that, over the past year, has gone ABOVE their regular duties and responsibilities, to meet the needs of the Colorado College community. These attributes include facilities teams that have consistently:

  • Create efficiencies and improve work processes.
  • Consistently achieved outstanding successes.
  • Practices inclusive, respectful and collaborative behavior at all times.
  • Always available to assist, provide support and values the success of the team.
  • Implements solution-based ideas that have a positive impact on the organization.

To be nominated for the Team Award, the team must be a part of the Facilities & Operations organization, who has been working at Colorado College for a minimum of one year and cannot have received the award in the previous three years.

How to Submit a Nomination

Any member of the Colorado College Community can nominate a current, full time Facilities & Operations employee, who meet the criteria outlined above.

Please include in your nominations the person or team you are nominating and what attributes they possess that personify the very best of who we are.

Nominations can be submitted to abrannigan@coloradocollege.edu no later then December 4, 2023.

Housing Maintenance is now part of the Facilities & Operations team and are eligible recipients for the awards outlined above. Working with you is its own reward, Amber Brannigan, Nic Johnson, George Eckhardt and Michael Brubaker are ineligible for any of these awards.

After you have submitted your nominations please join us for our annual Maintainer Party on December 19th at 3:30pm in the Van Briggle building where we will announce the award recipients. Food, games and beverages will be provided and our awards ceremony will begin promptly at 4pm.  We look forward to your nominations and being in community with you as we celebrate the very best of who we are.

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