What's changed, what's the same what the new 'normal' looks like
Join us next week!
In-person seminars and a webinar!
Join us this summer IN PERSON in Colorado Springs or Pueblo OR online for the ONLY title classes offered by CADA this year!
In this highly interactive, 2.5-hour seminar or webinar, Cindy Vierya, owner of Cindy Titles, LLC, will cover topics that include:
Handling out-of-state sales
Using Car Fax to YOUR advantage
County dealer desk changes
State appointments for dealer titles, duplicates, registrations and record searches
She'll be joined by various county DMV title experts, so you'll know EXACTLY what each county requires when processing your titles.
These seminars fill up fast, so register today!
About our presenter
Owner of Cindy Titles, LLC, Cindy Vierya has provided title processing expertise and assistance to auto dealers, credit unions, lenders and individuals since 2008. She has more than 15 years' title processing experience in Colorado, including seven years at the Denver County DMV — and nearly five years with a local new-car dealership.
Cindy Titles helps with all types of titling and registration. Vierya's services include training by appointment and help with problem cases, such as out-of-state title issues.
You'll learn
Sales & use tax update — based on where your customers live
How CarFax can become your new best friend
County desk dealer changes
Secrets for timely and efficient title processing today
Due to mudslides, road closures and related increased travel times, CADA is replacing the live seminars in Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs with one webinar.
If you missed the seminars in July or can't make it to the in-person seminars next week, register now for the webinar Tuesday, August 10!
Are you up to date on what's happened since the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act became law January 1?
For example, did you know that employers are required to post promotional opportunities to Colorado employees on the same day positions are externally posted, BEFORE making promotional decisions?
Or that you can provide a single post if you're continuously (at least once a month) hiring for a position that would qualify as a promotion for any current employees? Or what other conditions must be met for the one-post option?
Enforcement actions begin this month. Make sure you're not even on the 'courtesy letter' list!
Join us at 8 a.m. Wednesday, August 25 as Alexandra Bellanti, Employers Council Pay Equity Attorney, Affirmative Action Planning Services, leads the webinar, Equal Pay for Equal Work: What we know 8 months in.
Designed for dealer principals, general managers, HR managers, business managers and controllers, Alex will discuss issues employers are facing today and how they're handling the new law — the biggest being evergreen postings and in-line promotions. She'll walk you through how to develop pay bands and outline court decisions that uphold the law.
Alex Bellanti joined Employers Council in the summer of 2018 as an attorney with the Employment Law Services department. In November 2020, she transitioned to a role as the Pay Equity Attorney within the Specialized Legal Services Department, and works with the AAPS/Pay Equity Grup on performing pay equity audits and advising members on related matters.
Alex specializes in wage and hour law, with a current emphasis on pay equity, along with discrimination and EEO law. Previously, Alex practiced Plaintiff's side employment law for nearly five years in Colorado and Oklahoma. Outside the office, Alex enjoys skiing and Texas Rangers baseball.
How to address paid leave and employee abuse, now that it's law
While Governor Polis lifted the state public health emergency earlier this month, the federal emergency continues under the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Under Colorado's Healthy Families & Workplaces Act, Colorado employers are required to provide three types of paid leave to employees:
COVID-19 related paid leave
Paid sick leave
Public health emergency-related paid leave
So what does that mean to dealerships: The state has lifted restrictions, yet the federal guidelines remain? How do you move forward? How do you curtail employee abuse of the paid leave?
It's a tricky road to navigate. Because court decisions tend to defer to employees, what can you do when they seem to be abusing the new rule? What questions can you ask — and equally, what can't you ask?
Join us at 8 a.m. Thursday, August 26, as Dean Harris, Employers Council Attorney & Western Slope Area Manager leads the webinar, Colorado's Healthy Families & Workplacles Act: How to address paid leave and employee abuse, now that it's law.
Designed for dealer principals, general managers, HR managers, business managers and controllers, Dean will walk you through what happens to public health leave when the public health emergency ends. He'll discuss differences between paying employees for time off versus separated personal and sick lelave, as well as how to pay public health emergency leave for commissioned sales and flag employees.
You'll learn
The legal requirements of the Healthy Families & Workplaces Act
The difference between the general sick leave and public health emergency leave sections of the Act
How to transition to the post-COVID workplace after the requirement for public health emergency expires
Common situations that arise in drafting and managing leave plans under the Act
Dean Harris' career has centered on human resources and employment law issues. Early on, he clerked for Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Jose D.L. Marquez, followed by practicing employment, civil rights and criminal law as an associate attorney for Benezra & Culver, LLC.
He worked with Mountain States Employers Council as staff attorney from 2006-10, then as VP and HR Regional Manager for a community bank with 425 associates in 60 locations in California and Colorado, where he oversaw HR and employment law issues.
He rejoined the now-Employers Council in May 2017 to represent the interests of Employers Council and its members on the western slope.
Join us Tuesday, September 14 for the first Denver Auto Show Preview Gala EVER under the stars at Elitch Gardens!
The evening begins with the inaugural Colorado Automotive Hall of Fame reception and dinner, followed by honoring 50 of our industry's most iconic and
visionary dealers — whose automotive innovations and community service have benefited our state and thousands of Coloradans' lives.
From there, we'll stroll over to the Preview Gala, where together, we'll open the doors to the first outdoor Denver Auto Show in more than 100 years! With more than 500 new vehicles to see and new attractions — including the RAM® Truck Territory interactive ride, and Excel Energy's EV Garage and Ride 'n Drive event — you'll be the first to enjoy the Denver Auto Show before the doors (and the lines) open to the public the next day!
Tickets for the evening are $200.
Click here for a peek behind the curtain on who's being inducted in the inaugural Colorado Automotive Hall of Fame.
Click here for more information about the Preview Gala.
Join us at The Broadmoor for the CADA Annual Convention, where we'll have spectacular speakers — like Drew Bledsoe!
Keynote Speaker:
Drew Bledsoe, former NFL Quarterback
From Stadiums to Vineyards: The journey of football champion & entrepreneur, Drew Bledsoe
Drew Bledsoe shares his experience as a successful NFL quarterback to a thriving vintner in this interview. After suffering a serious injury, he bounced back by switching to a new field: the vineyard.
Learn the life and entrepreneurial lessons Drew discovered along the way, while recovering and getting back on his feet.
Facilitated by Joe Shaker, owner of Shaker Auto Group, and TruVideo, you’ll get an insider’s peek into his amazing story, including insights about what it takes to start over, down a new path.
A funeral will be Saturday for Jim Fuoco, pilot by soul, longtime head of a Grand Junction auto dealership, philanthropist, avid Grand Mesa angler; and his wife of 26 years, Afton Branscom-Fuoco.
Jim Fuoco died Feb. 1 at 88. Afton Branscom-Fuoco died June 27 at 95.
Jim Fuoco came to head the Jim Fuoco Motors dealership founded by his father, also known as Jim, after he served in the U.S. Air Force, where the younger Fuoco gained a love for flying.
In doing so, he followed the wishes of his family that he return to Grand Junction to work in the family automotive business with his brother, Earl J. Fuoco, said Jim’s daughter, Julia Furry of Santa Fe, N.M.
Her father frequently reminded her as she grew up that it was important to do business ethically, Furry said, “because you don’t want to sit next to somebody in church that believed you ripped them off. Your reputation is so very important.”
It’s a credo that guided her through her own career in the auto industry, Furry said.
The current dealership at 741 N. First St. sits on the site of the family home in which Jim and other siblings were born, said his sister, Katherine Fuoco-Fairchild.
Fuoco “agonized about leaving the Air Force” and the ability to pilot those “big old cargo planes,” Fuoco-Fairchild said.
Fuoco earned his commission and wings at at Reese Air Force Base in Texas. He was a pilot and commander of the C124 cargo aircraft at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
On agreeing to help lead the dealership, “ultimately, he did it for family,” she said.
Jim and Earl headed the dealership from about 1956 to 1989, when Earl’s son, Bob, bought out his father and was a partner in the business with his uncle.
Jim Fuoco retired in 2005, leaving Bob in charge. Bob has since stepped aside for his sons, meaning that the dealership is now headed by a fourth generation of the Fuoco family.
Jim Fuoco had an “intimidating” business presence, said Jamie Hamilton of the Junior College Baseball World Series Committee and a Fuoco business associate.
While he often looked to business mentors for tips on what not to do, he looked to Fuoco for guidance on how to treat people and make business decisions.
“He was a good coach,” Hamilton said.
Fuoco’s exterior was exactly that, said his sister.
“Underneath the brusque businessman there was a very kind soul,” Katherine Fuoco-Fairchild said.
Fuoco was active on the JUCO Committee and offered to provide coaches with cars while they were in Grand Junction. He also was active in other business, civic, and charitable organizations, serving as president of Rotary Club and of the Quarterback Club. He also was a board member and chairman of St. Mary’s Hospital and was chairman of the Colorado New Car Dealers Association.
After retirement, he designed and built aircraft hangars at Grand Junction Regional Airport.
Fuoco married Afton Branscom in 1995, and the union “made him a happier person,” Bob Fuoco said.
In addition to fishing on Grand Mesa, the Fuocos traveled the country in a motor home, seeing sights, meeting people and honing some old skills, Katherine said.
“He was always helping someone get their motor home or their car to get started again,” she said.
Fuoco and Sharol Biber had two daughters, Furry and Amy Bass of Aurora. A son, Steven, preceded them in death.
Other survivors include six grandsons, his sister, Katherine and many nieces and nephews. His brother, Earl, and sisters, Viola, Vera, and Mary, preceded him in death.
A Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 17, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.
The family requests donations to the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund, c/o Sean Kassen, Jordan Hall of Science 215L, Notre Dame, IN 46566.
The year started off strong with a compliance webinar that could affect your bottom line, followed by one that details the ins and outs of buying or selling a dealership. If you missed these webinars, you can stream them through CADA's Education on Demand.
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Consider the Importance Digital Asset Planning
Whether you realize it or not, you probably have amassed a large number of digital assets throughout your lifetime. Digital assets include anything that is created, communicated, sent, received, or stored electronically. Think about all the photos, music, movies, and e-books you have on your computer, smartphone, or in the cloud. Add to that each of the accounts you have created to access online banking, e-mail, shopping, or social media sites. These all make up your digital estate.
If something should happen to you, what happens to your digital accounts and files? Who will have access to them? If your family wants to preserve or download the content, will they be allowed to do so? Even if you provide a list of user IDs and passwords to your heirs, accessing someone else’s online accounts may violate applicable terms of service agreements or state or federal law.
In 2015, the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA) was created. The purpose of the act is to give individuals the opportunity to specify how and when the executor of their estate (or agent under a power of attorney) can access their digital accounts or assets, subject to some limitations. To date, almost 45 states and the District of Columbia have enacted this legislation and more are considering it.
If access to, and control of, your electronic files and accounts is important to you, here are a few simple things you can discuss with your attorney to help ensure your executor has the access you desire:
Compiling a list of user names and passwords. Keep the list in a safe place. Because this information becomes public record during the probate process, discuss with your attorney how to best include this information in your overall estate plan.
Checking website policies. Some sites automatically close or delete inactive accounts, while others will disable an account upon request by the family or executor. Certain websites offer an online tool that allows the user to specify how their account should be handled upon death or incapacity and name a trusted person to access the account. Consider taking advantage of these tools when available.
Leaving instructions in your estate planning documents. Leave instructions granting, or restricting, access to your digital accounts for your executor or agent in the appropriate estate planning documents such as your will or power of attorney. Talk to your attorney about whether instructions provided in a website’s online tool or those in estate planning documents will take precedence in the event of a conflict.
When creating or updating your estate plan, be sure to talk with your attorney about how you want your digital assets to be handled. Planning now may help save your loved ones significant time and frustration in the future.
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