George Mentz Becomes New Commissioner to Colorado Springs Airport Advisory Commission

George Mentz Becomes New Commissioner to Colorado Springs Airport Advisory Commission

July 29
23:07 2022

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The Colorado Springs Airport, is about 7,200 acres which is 1/2 the size of Manhattan, NY and the size of LaGuardia and JFK Airports combined. The Colorado Springs Airport is city-owned & civil-military airport 6 miles SE of downtown Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado, USA, and the 2nd busiest commercial airport in the state after Denver. According to CDOT, COS Airport generates a combined impact of over $3.4 billion each year for the region with 1.6 million passengers per year.  Counselor Mentz was recently nominated, elected and confirmed to the Commission.The Airport is home to a Space Force Base, Amazon, and many other private and governmental companies.  

The city of Colorado Springs is about 195 square miles with El Paso County population at about 750,000 people with the largest or most populous county in Colorado, bigger than Denver County. Pursuant to City Code Section 14.1.101, the Airport Commission acts in an advisory capacity to the Mayor, the City Council and the City Planning Commission. The Airport Commission has 7 Members with 3 year terms. Peterson Space Force Base, which is located on the north side of runway 13/31, is a tenant of the airport. Colorado Springs ranked number #1 in U.S. News and World Report’s “Most Desirable Places to Live” list for 2019 and ranked #2 in the nation in 2022.  For the fourth straight year in 2022, Colorado Springs ranks 1st among all metro areas for “desirability” in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of Best Places to Live — the premier ranking index for cities. 

Commissioner Mentz said, “It is such an honor to serve one of the fastest growing, greatest and safest cities in America.”  

The Commissioners act on matters pertaining to land use, construction, planning or operation of the Colorado Springs Airport. Additionally, the Commission may act in an advisory capacity to the El Paso County Planning Commission and the El Paso Board of County Commissioners.

About Comm’r George Mentz

George Mentz has an earned Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree (JD), an MBA from an AACSB Accredited School, and an International Law Diploma/Cert. Also, Commissioner Mentz is a licensed attorney, on law faculty with the Top Tier Texas A&M Graduate Law Programs, and he has just served the White House for several years as a Federal Commissioner for the USA Presidential Scholars Program.  Mentz is an IBA international book award winning author and has won several teaching awards.  Mentz serves on the board of one of Colorado’s largest charities called the TRE.org which spends over 25 million per year in the community helping the disabled and elderly, and Mentz is on the Board of Directors of the Loyola University Alumni Board.

Mentz is the author of over 60 books and audio books and has funded various charity programs to help with education of those in need in over 40 countries. Mentz is the CEO of the ISO 9001 and ISO 21001 Certified and ESQ European accredited “Board of Standards” which is an international educational body with members in over 150 nations. Mentz serves as the titular Seigneur of the Fief Blondel on Guernsey which is an 800+ year old lordship and fief registered with the Royal Courts and Crown of the United Kingdom. Mentz has previously served various law schools and business schools, and served on the advisory boards of the World e-Commerce Forum in the UK and the GFF Global Finance Forum of Switzerland.

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