{"id":2457789,"date":"2020-04-28T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-hires-new-assistant-city-manager\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:56:00","slug":"aspen-hires-new-assistant-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-hires-new-assistant-city-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen hires new assistant city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.380073800738\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/assistantcitymanager-atd-042920-2-1024x731.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/assistantcitymanager-atd-042920-2-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/assistantcitymanager-atd-042920-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/assistantcitymanager-atd-042920-2-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/assistantcitymanager-atd-042920-2-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/assistantcitymanager-atd-042920-2-2048x1462.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Former Park City, Utah, city manager Diane Foster has been hired as an assistant city manager in Aspen.<\/strong><br \/><em>Tanzi Propst\/Park Record file photo | The Park Record<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The city of Aspen has a new assistant city manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Diane Foster, the former city manager of Park City, Utah, will fill the local position that has been vacant for 16 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Foster left her position in Utah in October 2019, after City Council there initiated the separation but lauded her service and dedication to the municipal government and the community, according to the <a id=\"N0x2a427e0N0x2b48d30:N0x2a427e0N0x2b4fb88\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/news\/park-city-announces-sudden-departure-of-city-manager-diane-foster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Park Record newspaper<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">City Manager Sara Ott announced Foster\u2019s recent hiring Tuesday during Aspen City Council\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ott also announced the retiring of longtime manager of parks and recreation Jeff Woods, who has worked for the city for decades. He will officially retire June 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ott said she will leave the position open for the rest of the year, since the parks department has taken a severe financial hit with the COVID-19 crisis and dried up tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ott said Foster will help transition the changes in the parks department in the interim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Foster was chosen from 71 applicants, and comes with more than a decade of municipal leadership experience and expertise, according to a news release from the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Foster will assist in the implementation of COVID-19 recovery strategies, as well as overseeing and guiding Aspen\u2019s downtown vitality and parking, transportation, Wheeler Opera House, parks and recreation and Kids First departments while supervising the staff of the Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Foster\u2019s first day will be May 11.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.301724137931\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 at-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.162045060659\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times\u2019 work possible. 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Diane Foster, the former city manager of Park City, Utah, will fill the local position that has been vacant [&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-2457789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 21:49:32","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\/2457789","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=2457789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}