{"id":42749,"date":"2022-01-12T22:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-positions-open-on-mancos-board\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:09:25","slug":"three-positions-open-on-mancos-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-positions-open-on-mancos-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Three positions open on Mancos board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=108f81e0-813a-4db8-9a5e-553c4d42ba5c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Journal file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mancos Town Hall\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Journal file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mancos Town Hall<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mancos residents will vote by mail to fill three four-year positions on the Mancos Board of Trustees for the regular municipal election April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos Town Clerk\u2019s office is accepting nominations up until Jan. 24 at 5 p.m.  Mail can be sent to the Mancos Town Administration office at P.O. Box 487 at 117 N. Main St.<\/p>\n<p>Terms are up for Fred Brooks, mayor pro-tem, Betsy Harrison and Brent McWhirter.<\/p>\n<p>McWhirter is not running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to concentrate on my business and family at this time and perhaps run for office in a couple of years, once things with the business are more settled,\u201d he said in an email to <em id=\"emphasis-ae18170ba12123bbcf8df6f9822cb4fa\">The Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Trustee Harrison said she likely will run again.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal also reached out to incumbents Brooks via a contact form on the town\u2019s website, but has not heard back as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Queenie Barz remains in her position with two years left. Trustees Janice Bryan, Ed Hallam and Cindy Simpson also remain in their positions for two more years.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Trustees meets at Mancos Town Hall at 7 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Workshops take place the hour before the regular board meeting the second Wednesday of each month.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible to serve as a councilor, candidates must be at least 18 years old, a registered elector and a Mancos resident of at least one year prior to April 5.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos is also seeking a municipal court judge and an economic development coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election April 5; mail-in nominations due Jan. 24 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,167,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749","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=42749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85443,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749\/revisions\/85443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42749"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}