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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>
Las Cruces City Hall<\/p><\/div>\n
Whether the city will also release those candidates’\u00a0applications — and\u00a0applications submitted by\u00a0dozens of other people\u00a0— remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
The city initially said it wasn’t going to release the three names. But after the Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> and NMPolitics.net<\/a> called into question the legality of secrecy, Miyagishima directed\u00a0the city’s private search firm to notify the three candidates he was releasing their names.<\/p>\n The candidates interviewed a week ago are:<\/p>\n Before releasing the names, Miyagishima said the three interviews didn’t lead to the city naming finalists for its city manager job and the search would continue. After releasing the names Miyagishima said none of the three have been eliminated\u00a0from consideration. But Gallagher\u00a0has decided to withdraw his name, the Sun-News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Las Cruces\u00a0is seeking someone to replace outgoing City Manager Robert Garza, who is retiring later this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n The city has received about 50 applications for the job. NMPolitics.net has filed a formal request under the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act<\/a>\u00a0asking for access to all applications. The city is legally required to respond early next week.<\/p>\n Miyagishima said the decision on whether to release applications submitted by\u00a0the three candidates he named and all other applicants would be up to the city’s attorneys.<\/p>\n The city’s search firm initially told applicants their names would be confidential unless they were picked as finalists\u00a0— which the city has yet to name. And\u00a0City Councilor Jack Eakman has said<\/a> releasing names might discourage some qualified people from applying.<\/p>\n But, as NMPolitics.net\u00a0reported on Wednesday<\/a>, the N.M. Court of Appeals rejected such arguments years ago when the City of Farmington tried\u00a0to keep its city manager applications secret.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026when, as here, the application is for a high-ranking public position, the public\u2019s interest in disclosure outweighs the City\u2019s concern that fewer people will apply, and, thus, disclosure is required,\u201d the Court ruled in 2009<\/a> in upholding a district judge\u2019s order to release city manager\u00a0applications in Farmington.<\/p>\n Susan Boe, director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, said all applications for Las Cruces city manager\u00a0need to be released.<\/p>\n “All the information is public,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether the city will also release those candidates’ applications — and applications submitted by dozens of other people — remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145,3295,706],"class_list":["post-149104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-city-manager-search","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n