{"id":90757,"date":"2020-01-15T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/four-seats-open-for-mancos-town-board\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T20:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:46:03","slug":"four-seats-open-for-mancos-town-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/four-seats-open-for-mancos-town-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Four seats open for Mancos Town Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=78b9c7eb-c635-4532-a6fe-223c053a34dc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Four open seats on the Mancos Town Board will be contested April 7.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Four open seats on the Mancos Town Board will be contested April 7.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>In this year\u2019s municipal election, four open seats on the Mancos Town Board will be contested.<\/p>\n<p>The election will happen April 7, and interested candidates have until Jan. 27 to circulate petitions and obtain signatures to be placed on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the seven-member board includes Mayor Queenie Barz, Mayor Pro Tem Fred Brooks, and trustees Craig Benally, Ed Hallam, Betsy Harrison, Brent McWhirter, and Cindy Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>The terms for Barz, Benally, Hallam, and Simpson are up this spring, and none of them is term-limited, according to Town Administrator Heather Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor is elected as a separate office, while the mayor pro tem is chosen by the board after the election, Alvarez said.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, board members are elected to serve a four-year term, but if trustees resign in the middle of their term, that may shift the schedule. Last election in 2018, there was one extra person running, leading to a two-year term for Simpson \u2013 which is why she needs to run once again, according to Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Nomination petitions can be picked up at Town Hall, and completed petitions should be returned by 5 p.m. Jan. 27.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petitions due by Jan. 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,308,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-90757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-local-elections","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90757","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=90757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90757"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=90757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}