{"id":2447885,"date":"2019-08-22T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/new-aspen-city-manager-to-be-selected-within-a-week\/"},"modified":"2019-08-22T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T04:00:01","slug":"new-aspen-city-manager-to-be-selected-within-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/new-aspen-city-manager-to-be-selected-within-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New Aspen city manager to be selected within a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/council-atd-072418-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/council-atd-072418-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/council-atd-072418-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Aspen City Hall.<\/strong><br \/><em>Aspen Times file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The announcement of a new city manager is coming within days, according to sources close to the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think we are close,\u201d said Aspen City Councilman Ward Hauenstein, adding that council has been negotiating with a candidate in executive session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">City Attorney Jim True said Thursday no decision has been made and when it is time for that, it will be a public discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He said he expects that to happen within a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Council met in executive session on Monday and Tuesday this week and a few times earlier this month when the <a id=\"N0x1b378f0N0x1d314e0:N0x1b378f0N0x1b44ca0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspens-electeds-consider-city-manager-candidates-privately\/\">three finalists were in town for interviews<\/a> and meet-and-greets with the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The finalists are Katie Lewis, Robb Etnyre and Sara Ott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ott is the only internal candidate and is currently the interim city manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Etnyre is the general manager and CEO of Tahoe Donner in Truckee, California, and Lewis is the senior city attorney for Salt Lake City Corp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The city hired the head hunting firm Peckham &amp; McKenney in April for $25,000 to help it find the right candidate for the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:csackariason@aspentimes.com\">csackariason@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/new-aspen-city-manager-to-be-selected-within-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen City Hall.Aspen Times file photo The announcement of a new city manager is coming within days, according to sources close to the negotiations. \u201cI think we are close,\u201d said Aspen City Councilman Ward Hauenstein, adding that council has been negotiating with a candidate in executive session. City Attorney Jim True said Thursday no decision [&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":["post-2447885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-20 15:30:23","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\/2447885","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=2447885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}