{"id":39823,"date":"2012-05-14T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39823"},"modified":"2012-05-14T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:40:21","slug":"sunland-park-council-might-appoint-mayor-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/sunland-park-council-might-appoint-mayor-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunland Park cancels tonight\u2019s meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>

Sunland Park City Hall (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE, 1:35 p.m.:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sunland Park\u2019s City Council has cancelled tonight\u2019s meeting at which it was scheduled to appoint a new mayor.\u00a0Check back later for more information.<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL POST:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The City Council plans to go ahead tonight with a public meeting at which it will interview Javier Perea and Gerardo Hernandez and then appoint one to the job. But the mayor pro-tem is continuing to express concerns about compliance with the Open Meetings Act and has been seeking additional applications for the job.<\/h4>\n

Sunland Park might get a new mayor tonight. Then again, it might not.<\/p>\n

The City Council plans to go ahead tonight with a public meeting at which it will interview Javier Perea and Gerardo Hernandez and then appoint one to the job. But the mayor pro-tem \u2013 currently the highest-ranking official in the city \u2013 is continuing to express concerns about compliance with the Open Meetings Act and has been seeking additional applications for the job.<\/p>\n

The Las Cruces Sun-News has the newest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two men who stepped forward for the vacant mayor\u2019s office during a contentious outdoor meeting on May 4 are the only candidates who will be considered Monday at a public hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, like she did on May 4, Sunland Park Mayor Pro-Tem Isabel Santos is questioning the legality of tonight\u2019s special city council meeting, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the courtyard outside city hall at 1000 McNutt Road.<\/p>\n

\u201cSantos said Friday that she had not seen or approved the meeting\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s what should happen tonight, from the newspaper:<\/p>\n

\u201cCity Councilor Carmen Rodriguez said the five city councilors legally scheduled tonight\u2019s meeting to appoint a mayor. The council will decide between Javier Perea, a 24-year-old former diamond salesman, and Gerardo Hernandez, the former mayoral candidate who lays claim to the title.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the last meeting was quite chaotic<\/a>. This meeting, like that one, will be held outdoors to accommodate the expected massive crowd.<\/p>\n

The Sun-News reported this last week in a separate article<\/a> about what Santos is doing:<\/p>\n

\u201cSunland Park\u2019s top city official said Monday she\u2019ll accept r\u00e9sum\u00e9s through the end of (last) week for the vacant mayor\u2019s post, following a tumultuous meeting last week in which councilors postponed selecting a mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Sunland Park Mayor Pro Tem Isabel Santos, the city\u2019s top official, said she wants more time in advance of a May 14 meeting to review the r\u00e9sum\u00e9s of anyone wanting to become the city\u2019s mayor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: Sunland Park\u2019s City Council has cancelled tonight\u2019s meeting at which it was scheduled to appoint a new mayor. Check back later for more information.<\/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":[111,167],"class_list":["post-39823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-open-government","tag-sunland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823","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=39823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}