Tracie Crites · Mayor of Frederick, Colorado
Civic Record
Tracie Crites has served the Town of Frederick, Colorado in appointed and elected roles continuously since 2016, and as Mayor since April 2020. This page records the work of that service: the offices she has held, the projects completed during her tenure, and the recognition the town has received. Where a claim can be checked against a public record, the record is linked.
Office of Mayor, 2020 to present
Tracie Crites was elected Mayor of Frederick on April 7, 2020 and re-elected on April 2, 2024. Her current term runs through November 2028. She chairs the seven-member Board of Trustees, elected at large, and under Frederick’s statutory-town form of government the Mayor votes only to break a tie. The town operates on an $85 million annual budget with 187 employees and more than 400 volunteers. Her full election results are on the Election History page.
Economic Development
Economic development has been the defining work of Crites’s tenure. The town created its first full-service Economic Development Office, with a director, manager, and specialist, adopted its first economic development incentive program for primary employers, launched the IMPACT matching grant for local businesses, and founded the Frederick Business Awards. The results, in order:
- Agilent Technologies, February 2023. Agilent broke ground on a $725 million expansion of its biomedical manufacturing campus in Frederick, one of the largest private investments in Northern Colorado, creating more than 160 life science jobs. The project was announced in partnership with the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Source: State of Colorado
- Hirsh Precision Products, 2023. Hirsh opened its new headquarters in Frederick, adding manufacturing jobs in Weld County and partnering with local schools. Source: BizWest
- Silverstone Marketplace and King Soopers, May 2025. The Silverstone Marketplace retail development opened at Colorado Boulevard and Highway 52, anchored by the largest King Soopers Marketplace in the Carbon Valley and joined by nearly a dozen other businesses, the product of a public-private partnership years in the planning. Source: Town of Frederick
- Intrepid Fiber Networks, June 2025. Frederick joined Intrepid Fiber’s open-access broadband expansion, bringing fiber service to residents and businesses. Source: Intrepid Fiber Networks
- Lowe’s, August 2026. Lowe’s broke ground on a 95,000-square-foot store with a 30,000-square-foot garden center at Silverstone Marketplace, its 30th Colorado location, expected to open in summer 2027 with approximately 150 jobs. Source: 9NEWS
Alongside these, the town added more than 150 primary jobs through smaller attractions including Aqua-Hot and the Toro Company, commissioned a sales tax leakage study to target the industries the region lacks, and established a business roundtable so the Board hears directly from local employers each year.
Housing, Safety, and Community
During Crites’s tenure Frederick opened its first affordable housing development, launched a four-town victim services program with its neighboring police departments, created a Youth Commission, and acquired its historic 1947 gymnasium for public recreation. The through-line is a town of 16,873 residents building the institutions of a larger one before growth forces the question.
- Brigit’s Village, August 2025. Frederick’s first affordable housing development opened, a 40-unit intergenerational community built with St. Brigit Episcopal Church. Source: Denver7
- Carbon Valley and Mead Victim Services Program. Launched with the Frederick, Firestone, Dacono, and Mead police departments, the program provides advocacy, crisis intervention, and resources to victims of crime and tragedy across four communities.
- Public safety. During her tenure the Frederick Police Department created the Community Camera program, appointed its first Community Liaison Officer, expanded its behavioral health co-responder partnership, introduced the Blue Envelope program, and brought the Town Attorney’s office in house with expanded prosecution and special counsel capacity.
- Historic gymnasium. The town acquired Frederick’s 1947 championship gymnasium as a downtown home for youth sports and recreation.
- Youth and seniors. The Frederick Youth Commission, established in 2023, gives students from local schools a formal advisory role in town government. Via Transportation provides rides for seniors and residents with disabilities within 40 miles of town.
- Local control. Crites testified before the Colorado General Assembly and worked with the Colorado Municipal League on SB23-213, the statewide land-use bill, to keep land use a local decision.
Water, Parks, and Infrastructure
Water is the constraint on every Front Range town’s future, and Frederick under Crites treated it that way: new supply secured through water court, a dedicated water staff, usage-based rates, and a landscaping code that no longer requires turf. In the same period the town stood up its first Parks and Open Space Department and won voter approval, 3,426 to 1,012, to extend the open space tax to parks and trails.
- Water. The town secured additional water supply through a water court change case, updated its Water Efficiency Plan, hired a Water System Manager and a Water Conservation Specialist, introduced three rebate programs, and in 2025 adopted usage-based water rates and a landscaping ordinance that removed the front-yard turfgrass requirement.
- Parks and open space. The Board created a Parks and Open Space Department in 2022, and in November 2023 voters approved Ballot Issue 2C by 3,426 to 1,012, extending the open space sales tax to parks and trails. The 25-year Go Outdoors Frederick 2050 master plan launched in 2025. Source: Town of Frederick election record
- Roads and transit. The Colorado Boulevard mill and overlay, the Colorado and Tipple intersection rebuild, a Speed Management program, and Safe Routes to School funding.
- Planning. Completed master plans for the Outfall System, the 25/52 East Subarea, GIS, and Water Efficiency; a multi-year Land Use Code update including oil and gas regulations; and the town’s first Transportation Master Plan.
Water, Parks, and Infrastructure
The Town of Frederick won a national Voice of the People Award in 2023 and was profiled by the International City/County Management Association the same year, and in 2026 the Colorado Municipal League named Crites among 28 nominees statewide for its Sam Mamet Good Governance Award. Each is third-party recognition, and each is linked to its source.
- Voice of the People Award, 2023. Polco and the International City/County Management Association awarded the Town of Frederick the national Voice of the People Award for Transformation in Health and Wellness, honoring local governments that incorporate resident opinion into major decisions. Source: Town of Frederick
- Sam Mamet Good Governance Award nominee, 2026. Crites was one of 28 municipal officials statewide nominated for the Colorado Municipal League’s Sam Mamet Good Governance Award. Source: Colorado Municipal League
- ICMA feature, October 2023. The International City/County Management Association profiled the Town of Frederick’s approach to local government leadership, after the town presented its Strategic Plan at the 2022 ICMA annual conference. Watch the feature
- BizWest NOCO 40 Under 40, Class of 2020.
Public service 2016 to present
Crites has held eleven civic offices and appointments in the Carbon Valley since 2016, four of them won at the ballot box: a special district board seat in 2016, a town trustee seat in 2018, and the mayoralty in 2020 and 2024. Her service began before her first town election and continues alongside the mayoralty through regional economic development, transportation, and postal-boundary advocacy roles.
| Office | Years | How held |
|---|---|---|
| Mayor, Town of Frederick | 2020 to present | Elected 2020, re-elected 2024 |
| Chair, Upstate Colorado Economic Development | Current | Board of directors |
| Co-chair, National ZIP Code Advocacy Coalition | Current | Nationwide coalition of municipalities |
| Member, Highway 52 Coalition | Current | Regional transportation coalition |
| Parks and Open Spaces Liaison, Town of Frederick | 2018 to present | Board liaison |
| Commissioner, Frederick Urban Renewal Authority | 2016 to present | Appointed by the Mayor, 2016 |
| Trustee, Town of Frederick | 2018 to 2020 | Elected 2018 |
| POST Commission Liaison, Town of Frederick | 2018 to 2020 | Board liaison |
| Member, Frederick Transportation Master Plan Committee | 2018 to 2020 | The town’s first |
| President, Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District Board | 2017 to 2018 | Selected by the board |
| Director, Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation District | 2016 to 2018 | Elected 2016 |
Sources
Sources for this page: Town of Frederick staff directory · Mayor and Board of Trustees · Historical Election Information · Town of Frederick Top 10 of 2025