{"id":2408889,"date":"2018-12-15T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T23:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/assistant-city-manager-barry-crook-resigns\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T23:08:01","slug":"assistant-city-manager-barry-crook-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/assistant-city-manager-barry-crook-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant city manager Barry Crook resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Assistant City Manager Barry Crook resigned from his position on Friday, marking the end to his 13-year stint with the city of Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In an email sent to city employees, Crook wrote that working for the city &#8220;has been the best experience of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He praised his fellow employees for their dedication to the community and wrote that living in Aspen is something he will always cherish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">&#8220;(City manager Steve Barwick) and I will work out a transition plan that meets the needs of the organization, so I will be around for a bit longer before departing,&#8221; Crook wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Crook oversees the Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority and its executive director, Mike Kosdrosky. Crook also is behind the city&#8217;s multi-million dollar SHIFT transportation mobility experiment to be launched in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Several sources this week said Crook was visibly upset and vocal about the APCHA board&#8217;s decision to table a request from his office to have the housing authority become a partner in a public-private affordable housing development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/assistant-city-manager-barry-crook-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant City Manager Barry Crook resigned from his position on Friday, marking the end to his 13-year stint with the city of Aspen. In an email sent to city employees, Crook wrote that working for the city &#8220;has been the best experience of his life.&#8221; He praised his fellow employees for their dedication to the [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2408889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 20:39:45","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}