El Paso County Extension
Colorado State University Extension
Due to budget constraints, the El Paso County Commissioners have
cut the CSU Extension budget by 54%. Please contact the
Extension office to determine if the programs listed on our web
page are still being offered in 2008.
Information about Extension and funding:
CSU Extension Funding in El Paso County Fact Sheet (11.4 KB pdf file)
Colorado State University
Extension has discretion concerning funding for and provision of
Extension education programs in counties. Extension’s
educational efforts and funding allocation for programs within
each county are based on the needs of people in that county. Those
needs are identified jointly by the Extension Advisory Committee
appointed by the County Commissioners and CSU Extension staff.
Extension has not agreed to fund only 4-H in El Paso County. Extension
programs in the county will continue; those programs include agriculture,
consumer and family, horticulture and 4-H. However, recent budget
cuts by the county will reduce all program areas.
According to state Extension records, El Paso County supports
Extension with $149,000, not $160,000 as stated in a recent
Gazette article. The money from the county specifically supports
operation and some salary expenses, not rent and utilities. The
county provides office space and utilities separate from the monetary
support it provides to Extension.
Extension’s role as an organization that provides education
to counties is mandated by the Smith-Lever Act, passed in July
1914. The university receives funding from the federal, state and
county governments to provide those educational programs.
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We are part of the land-grant university system established
by Congress in 1914 that provides research-based information
to Coloradoans. Colorado State University faculty members
join with land-grant faculty throughout the nation to conduct
research into urgent issues. Extension staff disseminate the
knowledge that emerges from this research to people where
they live. In Colorado, Extension is located in 57 counties.
El Paso County was one of the first to establish an Extension
program. Here, as elsewhere, our Extension Staff encourages
you to get to know us. Let us help you put knowledge to work.
Ask us your questions about the following:
Agriculture
&
Natural Resource Management - Crops, livestock,
range land, water and natural resource issues
Family
& Consumer Science - Nutrition, food preparation
and preservation, food safety, money management, and parenting
Horticulture - Gardening, trees, houseplants,
pests
Nutrition - Food and nutrition education programs
Youth Development (4-H) - Rural and urban 4-H
education
Come to our office at 305 S. Union Boulevard in Colorado
Springs or give us a call at (719) 636-8920. We take pride
in our friendly, knowledgeable staff and in the unbiased information
that can be yours only through Colorado State University Extension.
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Interim Director
Joel Plath
Agriculture
Jonathan Vrabec
Family
& Consumer Sciences
Horticulture
Vacant
Natural
Resources
Jonathan Vrabec
Nutrition
FSNEP - Michael
Lucero
EFNEP -Mary Encinias
Doris Todd
Youth
Development (4-H)
Jonathan Vrabec
Corina Maldonado
Maureen Bergenfeld
305 S. Union
Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80910
719-520-7681
719-520-7699 (fax)
Directions
to our office.
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