Christopher BuonoChristopher Buono

Background and experience. Christopher Buono brings more than 25 years of technical leadership and executive consulting across the private and public sectors, including work with IBM on public-sector clients—managing large datasets, complex systems, and teams. A Battle Mountain High School teacher and longtime Eagle County resident, he has also served on the Eagle County School District's Finance Committee and the board of a regional federally qualified health center.

Why he's running. Buono sees the Assessor's office as central to fairness in the property tax system. Under Colorado law, the office reappraises property values every two years, but it does not set tax rates or collect taxes—the state sets the assessment rate and local districts apply their mill levies to produce the bill. For Buono, the Assessor's job is simply to value property accurately and uniformly, so every taxpayer can trust the process is applied evenly.