Ritter taps Broomfield’s Huber for Revenue

Broomfield’s Revenue Manager, Roxanne “Roxy” Huber, will join newly elected Colorado Governor Bill Ritter’s cabinet as the state’s Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Revenue.   

According to a release issued by the governor’s office this afternoon, Huber impressed Ritter and his transition team with her 18 years’ experience in Broomfield, Denver and South Dakota.  

In Colorado, her work in Denver and for Broomfield brought her together with state, county and local agencies. Her familiarity with legislation and her management experience caught Ritter’s eye.

Highly thought of among her peers, Huber’s experience includes marketing and negotiating contracts and development of the Colorado audit model. 

For Broomfield, she managed a budget of $1.8 million. She came to Broomfield in 2000 and created the city’s Revenue Division, instituting a self-collection system including education, licensure, compliance, collection, processing, auditing and hearings.   

To assure that Broomfield’s Revenue Division was up and running by November 15, 2001 when Broomfield officially became a combined city and county government, Huber worked with Broomfield’s predecessor counties to acquire data and set up the Treasurer’s function to include billing, collection, lien sale, tax certifications, mobile home authentications, senior homestead exemption, senior work-off program, and treasurer’s deeds.

She also created the Public Trustee procedures for Broomfield that includes releases of deeds of trust and foreclosures.  She led Broomfield’s Utility Billing section where she managed meter reading, billing and collection functions for water and sewer accounts. Under Huber’s direction, the functions were upgraded to a radio read system, and a software conversion for billing and collection for the 14,800 accounts that collect about $15.8 million in revenue for a Broomfield enterprise fund.