{"id":14102,"date":"2026-01-07T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-announces-job-openings-council-candidate-session\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:43:50","slug":"cortez-announces-job-openings-council-candidate-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-announces-job-openings-council-candidate-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez announces job openings, council candidate session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fa7d1be0-ea41-4b15-8ec4-478e3b006ed5&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1279\" alt=\"Cortez City Council meetings take place on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at City Hall, 123 Roger Smith Ave.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez City Council meetings take place on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at City Hall, 123 Roger Smith Ave.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The city of Cortez is seeking applicants for several municipal positions and preparing for its upcoming municipal election.<\/p>\n<p>The city has posted three employment listings: parks superintendent, facilities-maintenance technician and refuse collector.<\/p>\n<p>The parks superintendent will plan, lead and manage the city\u2019s Parks Maintenance Division to ensure parks, facilities, trails, open spaces, ponds and other areas remain safe, clean and well maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The facilities-maintenance technician will perform general maintenance and repairs on city buildings, and the refuse collector will collect trash along assigned routes and assist with unloading trash at the landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are accepted online at cortezco.applicantpro.com\/jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Petitions and certificates of nomination for City Council candidates are due by 5 p.m. Jan. 26 at City Hall. Questions may be directed to Danielle Wells at (970) 565-3402.<\/p>\n<p>City Council meetings are set for Jan. 13 and Jan. 27, both at 7:30 p.m. Residents can attend in person or view live and recorded streams at cortezco.gov\/497\/city-council-live-stream.<\/p>\n<p>City offices will be closed Jan. 19 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Council meetings take place on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at City Hall, 123 Roger Smith Ave.Sam Green\/The Journal The city of Cortez is seeking applicants for several municipal positions and preparing for its upcoming municipal election. The city has posted three employment listings: parks superintendent, facilities-maintenance technician and refuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,21,266],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-14102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-cortez","tag-election"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77112,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions\/77112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}