STEVE BALCEROVICH is a Colorado native. He was raised on his parents’ homestead, where they farmed, ranched, and operated a custom wheat-cutting operation in unincorporated Western Elbert County, near Kiowa, Colorado, and where his mom taught school for fifty-two years across three generations of families. Balcerovich still lives at the family homestead when the Colorado General Assembly is out of session. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business. He served two years as a student lobbyist for the university and one year as student body president.
After graduating from college, he served fourteen years in the government affairs division of the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSC), one of the nation’s largest gas, electric, and steam utilities. During his last eight years at PSC, he served as an in-house lobbyist.
Balcerovich left PSC in 1998 to begin his own lobbying practice. He has over thirty years of highly successful lobbying experience representing local government jurisdictions, water and wastewater providers, electric and broadband utilities, private businesses, and professional trade associations.
Balcerovich consistently works in a bipartisan manner and maintains superb personal and professional relationships with legislative leaders, committee chairs, ranking members, and legislators in all four caucuses, as well as with the executive and judicial branches, Legislative Council staff, committee staff, and fellow lobbyists.
As a highly successful government affairs professional, Balcerovich is often tapped to develop and execute innovative government affairs strategies beyond the State Capitol Building. For example, he recently preemptively helped a rural client out of a seemingly impossible regulatory predicament. To secure more competitive electric rates for its rural customer base, the Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) sought independence (a divorce) from the Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association (Tri-State). Colorado’s three-member gubernatorially appointed Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has governance jurisdiction over such matters, not the Colorado General Assembly. Before Tri-State’s management and government affairs team knew what happened, Balcerovich had quietly drafted and secured the signatures of sixty-four key lawmakers on a compelling, fact-based, and data-driven letter to the PUC urging it to grant DMEA’s independence. As a direct result of the Balcerovich relationships and strategy, the PUC voted unanimously to grant DMEA the necessary divorce.
Separately, Balcerovich played the dominant leadership role in securing Colorado’s first new judicial district in over sixty years. Despite an overwhelmingly triple-Democrat-governance environment, Balcerovich assembled a strictly bipartisan legislative team to sponsor the legislation and shepherd it from inception, through ten separate votes, to Governor Polis’ desk. Subsequently, with the hard-fought blessing of all six members of the powerful Joint Budget Committee (JBC), Balcerovich also secured $4.668 million from the State’s General Fund to transition Douglas, Elbert, and Lincoln counties away from the urban Aurora/Arapahoe County-dominated 18th Judicial District into a new suburban/exurban/rural 23rd Judicial District. As a direct result of Balcerovich’s relationships, work ethic, and bipartisan strategy, Colorado’s new 23rd Judicial District commenced operations in January 2025. The achievement remains one of many highlights of Balcerovich’s storied career under Colorado’s Gold Dome.
Balcerovich has been a voting member of the Colorado Water Congress State Affairs Committee for thirteen consecutive years. He participates in weekly legislative meetings throughout each session. He also maintains strong relationships with CDPHE/WQCD staff, with whom he frequently collaborates to help clients navigate regulatory issues.
Balcerovich’s standing in the lobby is such that, when fellow lobbyists find themselves in the unenviable position of having to take him on, they often persuade their client(s) to either stand down or substantively compromise in good faith to avoid the futility of attempting to outwork, outmaneuver, or defeat him.
Whether amending, defeating, passing, or preempting legislation/regulation, Balcerovich consistently delivers government affairs victories for his clients.
In summary, Steve Balcerovich’s rural roots, work ethic, moral ethos, relationships, reputation for relentless value-added ‘heavy lifting’ on behalf of clients and stakeholder coalitions, and his record of legislative accomplishments are unrivaled in the Colorado lobby.
TIMOTHY COLEMAN is a professional Colorado lobbyist with a robust background in government relations and public policy analysis.
In 2015, Timothy moved from the Washington, D.C. area to Colorado and earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Before earning his Master’s, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He also received a certificate from the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia, where he studied rural mental health deficiencies and public policy enhancements.
From 2019 through 2024, Coleman served as a policy analyst, in-house lobbyist, and finally, as Director of Government Relations for the Colorado Rural Electric Association (CREA). Coleman developed CREA’s short- and long-term public policies and political strategies. He consistently demonstrated exemplary skill at working effectively with legislators, stakeholders, state agency staff, and fellow lobbyists to deliver state legislative victories for CREA.
During his tenure at CREA, Coleman developed a reputation as a warm, hardworking young leader adept at navigating the minefield of hard-left urban/suburban-focused legislators and legislation. He is affable, well-liked, and easy to work with. However, don’t let his affability fool you! Coleman is smart, sharply competitive, and a fantastic lobbyist who routinely secured victories for his rural professional association amid the highest self-imposed ethical standards.
Since 2020, Coleman has served as an ex-office member of the Colorado Fire Commission and, since 2021, as co-chair of the Colorado Electric Vehicle Coalition’s Beneficial Electrification subgroup.
As of September 1, 2024, Coleman left his CREA leadership post to become Balcerovich’s lobby partner. As he has throughout his career, he continues to exceed expectations by securing legislation, negotiating amendments, and defeating objectionable bills on behalf of Balcerovich Coleman clients.
On a personal note, Tim Coleman is a proud Eagle Scout. He credits his passion for politics and public policy to his Eagle Scout journey.