Cortez hires new finance director and government search organization
2 min readThe metropolis of Cortez on Thursday announced the choosing of a finance director and the using the services of of an government research organization to recruit a town manager.
The new finance director, Kelly Koskie, will start out get the job done Monday, according to a news release from the town. Koskie grew up on her family ranch and farm in Lewis and gained an accounting degree from Fort Lewis College or university. Her to start with career out of faculty was as a receptionist for the city of Cortez. Koskie moved back again to the space after living 15 a long time in the Northwest.
“We are excited that Kelly is on board to take about as finance director for the metropolis of Cortez and enable keep on to operate on the problems we have in entrance of us,” Metropolis Manager John Dougherty reported. “We feel that Kelly will be a great addition to our crew, and we look ahead to the contributions she will make in assisting us achieve our objectives as a city.”
She will swap Katheryn Moss, who pleaded responsible in September to embezzling $63,642 from the town.
Peckham & McKenney Inc. will help Cortez discover a metropolis supervisor to replace John Dougherty, who introduced previous month that he would resign to spend far more time with family members, productive April 30.
According to its web-site, Peckham & McKenney is headquartered in Roseville, California, with regional workplaces in Southern California, Colorado and Texas.
The agency has conducted much more than 200 metropolis supervisor and other govt place queries for communities including Telluride, San Miguel County, Durango, Timnath, Wellington and Windsor.
The company’s vice president, Drew Gorgey, will direct the metropolis manager lookup. Gorgey has served in Colorado regional federal government for 20 a long time, which include stints as county manager and county lawyer for Garfield County in Glenwood Springs. He also served as interim town supervisor for Glenwood Springs.
The new hires occur as the town of Cortez appears to type out its economic complications of the earlier few of yrs. The town has contended with the coronavirus pandemic, an embezzlement investigation and many years of backed-up fiscal audits, which held up point out grants.
Only past thirty day period was City Council equipped to complete its 2016 monetary audit. Many years of audits nonetheless remain to be accomplished. Mainly because of the backup, the city has been unable to apply for point out grants or acquire its home taxes for about 1½ a long time.
