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.
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.