Michael Klapec, Assistant Treasurer
Michael Klapec became Assistant Treasurer of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania in September of 2006. In that role, he assists the Treasurer with the daily bookkeeping of the state Party.
Michael is the president of Klapec Auto Body Incorporated in Oil City, Pennsylvania. His firm enjoys over twenty percent of the auto collision market in Venango County, while maintaining a customer satisfaction rating of over 97%. Mike is also president of Color-tek Incorporated, which is a new venture, serving auto, fleet, and truck maintenance repairs and auto body work in the Venango County area.
Mike co-chaired local capitol campaigns for organizations such as the Oil City Salvation Army, and the Oil City municipal swimming pool. Additionally, he is active in the community serving as director on the boards of the Oil City Rotary club (past president), The Franklin Club, Oil City Salvation Army advisory board, (currently as chairman), the Barrow Civic Theater, the Oil Region Alliance, (the areas leading economic development organization), and also as deacon at Oil City First Presbyterian Church, member of the Venango County Republican Committee executive committee, chairman of the VCRC strategic planning committee, and past finance chairman of Venango County Lynn Swann for Governor Campaign.
An active republican all of his adult life, Mike comes from a very entrepreneurial background, growing up surrounded by four family owned businesses. At age eighteen he started Klapec auto Body that soon became the largest and most modern collision repair facility in the region. Mikes support of local law enforcement in the war on drugs earned his Color-tek Inc., along with one other company, the 2004 Pennsylvania Crime Prevention Business of the year award.
Formal education began at Clarion College, and then moved forward with extensive industry specific training from around the country, both technical and administrative.
A resident of Venango County all of his forty-three years, he married his wife Christine at age thirty, and is the father of two boys and one girl. His community and children have been the foundation for his associations and activities, from the Masonic Lodge and Rotary.