{"id":1319137,"date":"2020-03-27T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995098"},"modified":"2020-03-27T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:55:52","slug":"garfield-county-commissioners-appoint-carrie-couey-as-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/garfield-county-commissioners-appoint-carrie-couey-as-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield County commissioners appoint Carrie Couey as treasurer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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9th Judicial District Judge Denise Lynch, left, leads Carrie Couey, right, in the oath of office. Couey was appointed to the Garfield County Treasurer’s Office Friday, Marcy 27, 2020.<\/strong>
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Garfield County commissioners unanimously appointed Carrie Couey to replace Karla Bagley as county treasurer Friday, for a term that runs through 2022.<\/p>\n

Couey is a Silt rancher and current chair of the Garfield County Republicans.<\/p>\n

9th<\/sup> Judicial District Judge Denise Lynch conducted the swearing-in ceremony in a room cleared of chairs and with mostly official staff present.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Tom Jankovsky commented on the quiet nature of the event, which was cleared during the social distancing orders in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is normally a time when the entire room would be full and we would be celebrating. We\u2019re still celebrating,\u201d Jankovsky said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand, and I like for less people to be sick so I\u2019m OK with that,\u201d Couey said.<\/p>\n

Bagley announced in February<\/a> that she would be leaving office early to take a position out of state. Her last day as treasurer was March 20, and the commissioners narrowed down eight applicants to three earlier in the week before selecting Couey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were eight different well-qualified people who applied, three qualified for the second round of interviews, and Mrs. Couey became the choice of the board of county commissioners,\u201d said Chair John Martin.<\/p>\n

Couey has a bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting and business administration from Colorado Mesa University, a bachelor\u2019s degree in organizational leadership from Colorado State University, and an associate\u2019s degree from Colorado Mountain College.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had an interest in public service and how government works,\u201d Couey said in a news release. \u201cI really love that I now have the opportunity to serve the citizens of Garfield County, which is a great place to live. I love the people here.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to running the Couey Ranch business, she previously worked as an office administrator at Yenter Companies Inc., and as customer service manager for City Market in Rifle.<\/p>\n

Bagley was first elected as treasurer and public trustee for Garfield County in 2014, and won re-election in 2018 in an uncontested race for a term that runs through 2022.<\/p>\n

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9th Judicial District Judge Denise Lynch, left, leads Carrie Couey, right, in the oath of office. Couey was appointed to the Garfield County Treasurer’s Office Friday, Marcy 27, 2020.Garfield County \/ Provided Garfield County commissioners unanimously appointed Carrie Couey to replace Karla Bagley as county treasurer Friday, for a term that runs through 2022. Couey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 04:45:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}