As part of the Telluride Mountain Village Long-Range Planning Process, the SMART Gondola Advisory Committee reviews technical information and makes recommendations to the Gondola Leadership Committee, which is composed of the full governing bodies from each partner entity listed below. Once gondola planning recommendations are approved by the Leadership Committee, they then go before the SMART Board of Directors for formal adoption.
The Gondola Subcommittee was transitioned to SMART and became an Advisory Committee to the SMART Board. The Gondola Advisory Committee was established through SMART Resolution 2023-25. It operates in accordance with Section 3 of the 2024 and 2025 Gondola Project Development IGA supplement and amendments. The Gondola Advisory and Leadership Committees operate in accordance with the SMART IGA Section 4.03.
The Gondola Advisory Committee is managed by SMART and composed of the following representatives from the following partner entities:
- Town of Telluride
- Councilmember Meehan Fee
- Councilmember Ashley Story VonSpreecken
- Mountain Village Entity
- Councilmember Harvey Mogenson
- TMVOA Board Member Jim Royer
- San Miguel County
- Commissioner Lance Waring
- County Manager Mike Bordogna
- Telluride Ski and Golf (Telski)
- John Miller
- San Miguel Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART)
- Board Chair Joe Dillsworth
- Executive Director David Averill