{"id":39442,"date":"2012-05-01T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39442"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:45:47","slug":"dfa-visits-sunland-park-to-check-things-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/dfa-visits-sunland-park-to-check-things-out\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA visits Sunland Park to check things out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37313\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37313\" title=\"Sunland City Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sunland-City-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Sunland Park City Hall (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sunland-City-Hall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sunland-City-Hall-336x195.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sunland-City-Hall-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunland Park City Hall (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>\u2018This is just really a collaborative effort to get DFA face-to-face with Sunland Park employees,\u2019 DFA spokesman Tim Korte says.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The state <a href=\"http:\/\/nmdfa.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance and Administration<\/a>, which may ultimately be charged with suspending some Sunland Park officials and bringing in outside help to take over certain functions, is in the city today the check things out.<\/p>\n<p>But DFA isn\u2019t in Sunland Park to take over city functions or even necessarily in preparation for that. They\u2019re evaluating the city\u2019s record-keeping and budgetary processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just really a collaborative effort to get DFA face-to-face with Sunland Park employees,\u201d DFA spokesman Tim Korte said. \u201cWe are simply trying to identify potential deficiencies and make recommendations to the city on best practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state auditor is conducting a special audit of the city and may ultimately recommend that DFA intervene by suspending some city officials and bringing in outside help. That has never been done before in New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state Department of Finance and Administration, which may ultimately be charged with suspending some Sunland Park officials and bringing in outside help to take over certain functions, is in the city today the check things out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-39442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-sunland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39442","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=39442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}