{"id":75532,"date":"2017-09-29T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-conquistador-golf-course-to-hire-superintendent\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:09:47","slug":"cortez-conquistador-golf-course-to-hire-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-conquistador-golf-course-to-hire-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Conquistador Golf Course to hire superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4539c893-ea4b-4c72-bc3b-ca8c9ffae6cc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The third hole on Conquistador Golf Course. Both the course foreman and greenskeeper recently announced their resignations.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The third hole on Conquistador Golf Course. Both the course foreman and greenskeeper recently announced their resignations.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Brian S. Peterson\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Golf Advisory Board voted Wednesday to create a position to replace two outgoing Conquistador Golf Course employees.<\/p>\n<p>Parks, Recreation and Forestry Director Dean Palmquist on Tuesday asked the City Council  for permission to create the position, and council members expressed support. The advisory board has considered the change for several months, but Palmquist said it became more urgent in September after greenskeeper Russ Grover resigned. Foreman Wayne Becker announced earlier this year that he\u2019d retire in January, after more than 30 years on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Grover attended the advisory board meeting to give an update on the state of the course and to say his goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to say thank you to all you guys,\u201d he told the board. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great experience, and hopefully everything works out for you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becker spoke about his plans to finish projects at the course and set up a plan for training his replacement. He said he enjoyed his time over the past 34 years, and thanked board members for their support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis city\u2019s treated me well, and I\u2019m happy to have had a good job with the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Board members said the feeling was mutual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour dedication to this place is unparalleled,\u201d Ty Keel, the city council representative on the board, told Becker.<\/p>\n<p>He said working for Becker when he was younger was \u201cthe best job (he) ever had.\u201d Palmquist said he will host a retirement party at the course.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had submitted a description of the golf superintendent job to the city\u2019s human resources department, but hadn\u2019t received feedback yet. Human resources director Gay Hall retired at the beginning of September, and the city\u2019s new hire, Cortez Police Sgt. Matt Cashner, won\u2019t start until Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Cashner has no prior experience with human resources, according to City Manager Shane Hale, so it will likely take him some time to train for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Sam Jarvis asked if that transition period might cause a delay in hiring a superintendent, but Palmquist said he didn\u2019t think it would be a problem. He said he believes human resources assistant Debbie Speer has enough knowledge and experience for a smooth transition, and he expects to  advertise the position soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>creates position after foreman, greenskeeper quit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,318,13,2261,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-municipal-government","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-golf","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75532","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=75532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75532"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}