{"id":22670,"date":"2025-04-16T19:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/housing-authority-of-montezuma-county-fills-positions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:15:29","slug":"housing-authority-of-montezuma-county-fills-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/housing-authority-of-montezuma-county-fills-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Authority of Montezuma County fills positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=32604d6f-510b-5037-bdc9-17a423258895&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1032\" height=\"770\" alt=\"Calkins Commons, a Montezuma County Housing Authority property and its main office building, at 121 E. First St. in Cortez. (Cameryn Cass\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Calkins Commons, a Montezuma County Housing Authority property and its main office building, at 121 E. First St. in Cortez. (Cameryn Cass\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, April 15, there\u2019s two new employees at the Housing Authority of Montezuma County, and another will come on board next week.<\/p>\n<p>A resident manager at Calkins Commons and a Housing Choice Voucher Specialist have been onboarded, and an interim executive director who recently retired from another housing authority will start Monday, April 21, said Jim Candelaria, a board member on the housing authority\u2019s governing board.<\/p>\n<p>The interim director has promised to stay until the board finds a permanent executive director to fill the position, said Candelaria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may be being optimistic and not realistic, but my hope is that it\u2019s filled in four to six months,\u201d he said of the permanent executive director role. \u201cAgain, I\u2019m probably being optimistic, but at least we found someone to fill the role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In two weeks, another occupancy specialist will join the team.<\/p>\n<p>Candelaria said the board has been \u201cworking really hard\u201d to fill the positions, and that the only remaining opening is for an assistant executive director.<\/p>\n<p>At the April 15 Board of County Commissioner\u2019s meeting, Candelaria called the new employees \u201crock stars,\u201d and reiterated their qualifications in a phone call with<em id=\"emphasis-f6fc7a3e87ecbbfbc4fd5ec3439ba9e0\"> The Journal<\/em> on Wednesday, April 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody\u2019s lost housing, and everything is still functioning,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re the best applicants we had.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>started on Tuesday, and another will start next week <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670","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=22670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77804,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions\/77804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}