Newly elected board members of the Cortez Sanitation District voted to re-instate board member Jim Candelaria during a special meeting Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Candelaria was ousted by the previous board after they passed a controversial ordinance prohibiting him from serving his board term while a candidate for the Montezuma County Commission.<\/p>\n
A motion to revoke the ordinance passed 3-1, with newly elected board members Ryan Griglak, Tim Robinson, and Ray Fox voting yes, and board member John Stramel voting no.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is hard to find people who want to serve, and I don\u2019t want to discriminate against someone who wants to be on the board,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n
The now defunct resolution claimed a director holding another public office \u201cmay inhibit\u201d the board member\u2019s \u201ctime and attention\u201d and \u201cmay lead\u201d to conflicts of interests.<\/p>\n
It also forced board members to relinquish their post if they refuse to subscribe to an oath of office, are convicted of a felony, submits a written resignation, ceases to be qualified, fails to attend three consecutive meetings without board approval or dies.<\/p>\n
Candelaria was the lone opposition to the ordinance against him, describing it as arbitrary and \u201cchildish.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never resigned, and I felt the resolution was illegal,\u201d Candelaria said. \u201cI accept re-instatement.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was given the oath of office, returned to his seat on the board, and got down to business analyzing a bid for concrete services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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