Sky-Hi News Candidate Q&A Question 1: Three Results of My Term
Sky-Hi News called me the other day for a raw, unedited interview to give voters an authentic and direct look into my views and my intentions as County Commissioner. I will be posting one question a day for easier reading.
You can read about the format and production of Sky-Hi’s 2026 Election Q&A here.
Question 1:
If elected, what are the three most important results you would want to accomplish during your four-year term?
Framing them as results, I would want to address three primary issues. The first being general affordability, focusing mostly on housing. That’s something that I think is an ongoing project and an ongoing fight. And so I want to push back on the idea of actually achieving a result, as opposed to moving the needle, setting up Grand County, so that it can have more of a continuous affordability. That’s the first one.
The second one would be road safety and transit. I think we’ve come a long way just in the last two years or so, particularly around road safety. Our state senator, Dylan Roberts, has gone to that specifically for Grand County over the last couple of years because the last two years have been really deadly on our roads. But again, I feel there’s more that we can do in terms of actual road infrastructure, so things like guardrails, as well as taking care of our roads better and more conscientiously. So, looking at our dirt roads in the county. What roads are used by locals more? What roads need to possibly have better upkeep? And trying to navigate that with our County Road and Bridge Department and our funding, and making sure that we can address those issues. As well as working with CDOT on the state roads, on the 34 and 40 and nine, and the other counties and U.S. highways that pass through the county. And that also extends to how people use the road.
Fraser, Winter Park, Granby, and Grand Lake all have various forms of public transit, and they’re working through some of the issues around it, mainly with funding and use. But there could be, again, exploring other options, maybe on a county level, not necessarily a project for the county to fund, but certainly for the county to investigate and invest and attract private interest into the county to provide some form of more mass transit or public transit, just to get from Kremmling, to the east side and back. And that would, I feel, take drivers off the road; it would take cars off the road and make our roads safer in that way.
And then the third goal of mine is just general representation. I feel our current elected officials, whether they’ve only been in [office] for one term or more, they more or less consistently win with just over 50%. It’s between 50 and 60% of the vote. And because that’s been so consistent, what it shows me is that they’re really not trying to expand their support network, right? Their voter base in the county, which could manifest in them not really paying attention, or not reacting, or understanding some of the concerns of people who are not voting for them. And so, my goal-and this is partially why I’m running as unaffiliated, but also just as a dedicated community member that spans the county and participates in a lot of very disparate groups. I feel that I would like to see more broad representation at the county level, more consensus building, [and] more collaboration throughout the county, throughout all of these different groups.
You can read the full interview here: https://www.skyhinews.com/news/qa-say-hello-to-jeremy-krones-running-for-county-commissioner-district-3/
