{"id":23818,"date":"2025-01-29T17:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-city-manager-will-stay-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:43:10","slug":"cortez-city-manager-will-stay-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-city-manager-will-stay-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez city manager will stay in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ae8c4a12-5000-5b44-9e87-31e07bdc8a89&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"862\" height=\"956\" alt=\"Cortez City Manager Drew Sanders\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez City Manager Drew Sanders<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cortez City Manager Drew Sanders was one of four finalists for a city manager position in Fruita, and the town selected another candidate.<\/p>\n<p>That means Sanders will stay in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFruita is a good community, and much like Cortez,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cI respect Fruita City Council\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said the \u201copportunity had presented itself and I felt obligated to explore it,\u201d and that while he was in Fruita, he received \u201can outpouring of care and support from the community here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nice and humbling,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cI\u2019m really grateful to be part of this community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so pleased that Drew is staying in Cortez and will be able to continue the great work he has been doing over the last three years,\u201d said Mayor Rachel Medina.<\/p>\n<p>Medina said she believes the interim city manager in Fruita got the position, \u201cwhich I think speaks to how much of a lift it is to orient someone new to a community,\u201d and is precisely why she\u2019s glad Sanders is staying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders was considered for the same position in Fruita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23819,"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-23818","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\/23818","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=23818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78276,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818\/revisions\/78276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}