Hello! I’m Jessica Campbell, your District 2 Arapahoe County Commissioner.
We’ve made incredible progress in the three years I’ve served as your Commissioner. I am excited to build on our momentum and humbly ask for your support as I run for re-election in 2026.
From making comprehensive housing and land use reforms, passing more protective oil and gas regulations, resolving our budget crisis, and reducing negative impacts from Centennial Airport, I have kept my campaign promises and produced results.
Going forward, I want to continue the good work of making Arapahoe healthy, thriving, and sustainable. In the last three years, we have established - for the first time - a strategic plan, an affordable housing fund, an oil and gas inspections program, and a fly quiet program. I want to ensure these and other new programs are successful.
I want to continue the work I’ve done to resolve our budget crisis, bring sustainable funding to the County, and align our budget with our strategic plan so we can better serve you.
I also want to dig in deeper to easing east-west traffic issues, strengthen our economic development efforts, improve how the County and I give and receive information from constituents, and advance upstream reforms that reduce poverty and crime - increasing opportunity and security.
Working for you.
While often overlooked, county government is the glue that holds many lives together.
County commissioners play a vital role in our community. From managing land use and delivering services, to allocating a $670 million+ budget, representing constituents on numerous boards, and advocating for you at state and federal levels, our service takes a variety of forms. I have dug in deep with a hands-on approach to solve problems, deliver results, and make much-needed reforms.
Ensuring Arapahoe works for you.
Arapahoe County has been facing a number of challenges: a housing crisis, a huge number of proposed oil & gas wells, deteriorating infrastructure, economic disparity, and a quickly evolving technological environment.
Some highlights of my work as your Commissioner:
I pushed housing and land use reforms to make staying in your home, building homes, and developing affordable housing easier. We allowed for ADUs, rezoned for transit-oriented development, created an affordable housing incentives program, made permanent an eviction prevention fund with wrap-around services, and established an affordable housing fund so we can help make projects happen.
I led on establishing the most protective oil & gas regulations in the state. We require 24 hour air and water quality monitoring, independent financial assurances, and we created our first independent inspections program.
I have worked with Public Works and constituents to address needs in our roads and ensure repairs take place.
I have led on establishing our first strategic plan rooted in the four pillars of sustainability, good governance, and equity. This aligns the County’s actions and dollars towards focused improvement areas.
I have also partnered with our IT Dept. to increase digital accessibility, enhance cyber security, develop a strategy for AI, and modernize our IT budget.
Securing & managing a sustainable budget.
Arapahoe County’s budget has not kept up with needs for over 30 years. When I took office, we had a $316.6. million deficit in infrastructure, many of our departments had not received more than a few additional staff or equipment upgrades in a decade, and we were absorbing a public health department and were about to absorb the 18th Judicial District.
From day ONE, I focused on our budget crisis. I have served on our Exec. Budget Committee all three years, our IT Steering Committee for two years, and in 2025, our Capital Improvement Committee - the only Commissioner in modern history to serve on all three at once. Through these positions, I’ve helped modernize our budget and align it with our strategic plan.
I have pushed for and successfully established a “grant squad” so the County has the team needed to go after YOUR tax dollars at the state and federal level. I also led the effort to De-bruce our County, bringing in critical additional revenue which has stabilized our budget.
The Arapahoe County 2026 budget is a culmination of three years of hard work and puts forward historic levels of funding for roads & infrastructure ($125 million over five years), safety, and housing (establishing a permanent eviction defense fund with wrap-around services, and a first-ever affordable housing fund), while continuing support for our health department and absorbing the 18th JD.
Representing you throughout the county and state.
Commissioners sit on a number of external boards and committees that operate in or serve our County and State. As a Board, we make assignments and appoint ourselves to these Boards.
As your Commissioner:
I serve as the Vice Chair for the Centennial Airport Authority Board. In this role, I have helped bring unleaded avgas to Centennial Airport to reduce pollution - the first in Colorado to do so. I helped create a one-of-a-kind study group to address the increased overflights in Greenwood Village and through that group have reduced said flights back to 2018 levels. And we just launched the FIRST flight school focused Fly Quiet Program.
I was appointed by the Governor to the 988 Mental Health Enterprise Board in 2023 for which I am now Chair. I have helped guide this much needed resource through its earliest years, ensuring reliable service.
I also serve as the Vice Chair to the Southeast Metro Stormwater Authority, a member of the Denver South Economic Development Board, and more.
Advocating for your needs and Arapahoe’s needs.
As a subdivision of the state, counties can only do what the State explicitly says we can do, thus the state legislative process is incredibly important for us. Additionally, we receive important funds from the federal government and are impacted by their decisions. Commissioners participate in county organizations at the state and federal level to advocate for your needs and work on dozens of bills a year.
Notably, in 2024, I partnered with legislators and led the effort to pass HB24-1266 to ensure County oversight for utility relocations which saves counties millions of dollars.
In 2024, partnering with legislators, I helped develop and pass HB24-1235. This bill created a funding stream to support local general aviation airports like Centennial in making unleaded avgas available.
I have also worked with our legislators to develop and amend land use legislation that enables affordable and transit-oriented development while matching local processes and needs, ensuring better outcomes.
On the federal level, I have advocated for our community’s needs with our Senators and the FAA, worked to kill efforts that would balance the federal budget on the backs of counties, and dug in deep to understand federal grant opportunities.
Working with our legislators.
Public Works Day!
Celebrating local breweries!
Housing tour with legislators.
Supporting 988 and running a 5k!
Standing with AFSCME at Pride and everyday.
Flying in an electric plane - reducing pollution!
Hearing from you.
Our chambers are essential partners.
Celebrating the Denver Summit!
WE LOVE THE FAIR!
Advocating for workable land use policies.
Educating our youth on county government.
Honoring our employees with the best team of County electeds around!
Advocating for FAA support in DC.
Reporting out on National Association of Counties.
Supporting our students with scholarships!
Who doesn't love our school resource puppies?
Groundbreaking for new Broncos training facility!
Happy Holi!
Hanging with our award-winning newscasters.
No One Should Be Hungry, Period.
A Healthy, Thriving, Sustainable Arapahoe County
As your Commissioner, I have responded to community needs, emergent crises, and kept us moving forward.
In 2022, I said, “we will need to manage a strained budget, support and evaluate a new health department, address the rising cost of living, and respond to growing crises in housing and mental health.”
As your County Commissioner, I’ve delivered on meeting those needs and more.
When facing a humanitarian refugee crisis, we deployed our Human Services, Public Health, and Community Resources departments to meet the very human needs of those refugees.
When the federal administration held up funding for SNAP, we immediately appropriated tens of thousands of dollars to local partners to supply meals so Arapahoe residents would not go hungry.
We have allocated an additional $1.5 million funding through our Aid to Agencies program to support mental and behavioral health, housing, and transportation programs.
When state and municipal actions threatened to bring thousands more domestic violence cases to Arapahoe, I advocated for additional resources so justice would not be delayed. And when those cases came, I pushed to allocated as much funding as possible to hire a sufficient number of Deputy DAs to handle the increased caseload.
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I take seriously the challenges our county faces and want to seize the opportunities that lie ahead. I have raised my family in Arapahoe County and am invested in making this community as strong and vibrant as it can be.
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