{"id":22366,"date":"2025-05-07T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-announces-finalists-for-financial-director-position\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:12:58","slug":"city-announces-finalists-for-financial-director-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-announces-finalists-for-financial-director-position\/","title":{"rendered":"City announces finalists for financial director position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e6738dd0-0af9-59ac-a2e2-ed365c0ae026&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1279\" alt=\"Cortez will have an election June 8 to ask voters to opt out of state telecommunication law SB 152. (Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez will have an election June 8 to ask voters to opt out of state telecommunication law SB 152. (Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Journal file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The city of Cortez announced the finalists for the finance director position on Tuesday, and a meet-and-greet will be held with the finalists on Wednesday, May 14.<\/p>\n<p>The meet and greet will be held at City Hall, 123 Roger Smith Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists, selected from a pool of 21 applicants in a competitive national search, are Randy Bailey, controller for the city of Fort Collins; Anthony (Tony) Bolling, project manager for the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; and Dwayne (Mitch) Franklin, lead budget analyst for the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The finance director oversees the city\u2019s $865,000 budget and manages a team of six full-time employees, working to ensure accurate financial reporting for informed decision-making and transparency for residents.<\/p>\n<p>The event offers community members, city staff and local leaders a chance to meet the candidates, ask questions and provide input. The city encourages residents to attend and participate in the selection process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>be a meet-and-greet with the finalists at City Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366","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=22366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77681,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22366\/revisions\/77681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22366"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}