{"id":17469,"date":"2025-01-17T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/?p=17469"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:50:08","slug":"volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Needed for El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>El Paso County, CO, January 17, 2025 \u2013 <\/strong>The Board of El Paso County Commissioners is seeking community-minded citizen volunteers to serve on the El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group. Applications are being accepted for\u00a0two at-large members and are due by <strong>January 31, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citizen Outreach Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group (COG) helps educate residents on the work of and services provided by El Paso County, serves as citizen ambassadors on behalf of County government to the public as requested by designated staff, and assesses the progress and efforts of County strategic initiatives, such as the County Strategic Plan, the County\u2019s budget, and the activity of the Public Safety tax. The COG, in its capacity, supports the County\u2019s efforts in hosting the County Citizen College, the County Fair and other events in order to encourage and enhance transparency and collaboration between citizens and their County government.<\/p>\n<p>Each at-large voting member shall be limited to two (2) consecutive three (3) year terms.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen Outreach Group (COG) meetings are typically held monthly at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteer application is located at www.elpasoco.com and can be accessed at:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/bocc.elpasoco.com\/volunteer\">https:\/\/bocc.elpasoco.com\/volunteer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send completed applications to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Board of County Commissioners<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Attn:\u00a0Ingrid Mobley<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">200 S. Cascade Avenue<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Colorado Springs, CO\u00a080903-2208<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><a href=\"mailto:ingridmobley@elpasoco.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ingridmobley@elpasoco.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Applications may also be faxed to 719-520-6397 or emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:volunteer@elpasoco.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volunteer@elpasoco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>www.ElPasoCo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]El Paso County, CO, January 17, 2025 \u2013 The Board of El Paso County Commissioners is seeking community-minded citizen volunteers to serve on the El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group. Applications are being accepted for\u00a0two at-large members and are due by January 31, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Citizen Outreach Group El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group (COG)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":12738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1391,1673,30],"tags":[6518,376,7405],"class_list":["post-17469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commissioners","category-featured-news","category-news","category-volunteer","tag-el-paso-county","tag-parks","tag-volunteer","category-7","category-1391","category-1673","category-30","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Volunteer Needed for El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group - El Paso County Colorado<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The El Paso County Board of Commissioners is seeking community-minded citizen volunteers to serve on the El Paso County Park Fee Advisory Committee.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Volunteer Needed for El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The El Paso County Board of Commissioners is seeking community-minded citizen volunteers to serve on the El Paso County Park Fee Advisory Committee.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"El Paso County Colorado\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-17T21:50:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/epc-assets.elpasoco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Volunteer-4.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"samantharadomski@elpasoco.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"samantharadomski@elpasoco.com\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"samantharadomski@elpasoco.com\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/#\/schema\/person\/51fe7612dff982f2867acd4529069b14\"},\"headline\":\"Volunteer Needed for El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-17T21:50:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/\"},\"wordCount\":259,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/epc-assets.elpasoco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Volunteer-4.png\",\"keywords\":[\"El Paso County\",\"Parks\",\"Volunteer\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Commissioners\",\"FEATURED NEWS\",\"NEWS\",\"Volunteer\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.elpasoco.com\/volunteer-needed-for-el-paso-county-citizen-outreach-group\/\",\"name\":\"Volunteer Needed for El Paso County Citizen Outreach Group - 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