Moore not a finalist for Arizona job

Terrence Moore

Las Cruces City Manager Terrence Moore wasn’t selected as one of four finalists for the job of city manager in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Moore wrote in an April 2 letter to Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima that he “did not initiate first contact” but was one of eight people being recruited for the job.

“Although I am both flattered and honored to be considered for this opportunity, I remain firmly committed to the City of Las Cruces and our community,” Moore wrote in that letter, which was published by the Las Cruces Sun-News alongside an April 3 article that’s no longer available online.

On April 9, a search committee narrowed the list of candidates for the Scottsdale job to four, the Arizona Republic reported. Those finalists will be interviewed April 30. Moore is not among them.

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Meanwhile, a Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department probe involving Moore is still ongoing. The department has been investigating two incidents involving Moore and his ex-wife – one surrounding injuries Moore’s then-wife suffered in late 2008 and the other involving a police report the city manager filed over a prescription-drug incident in January 2009.

Moore has been under scrutiny lately for two other issues:

• Earlier this year he reimbursed the city for some costs associated with two business trips he took last year – after a complaint was filed over one trip and an attorney requested documentation about the other.

• He also had his administrative assistant babysit his children on Dec. 21 – while she was on the clock and being paid with public money – so he could attend a city council meeting.

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