Baca given management responsibilities

March 09, 2010

Belen Mayor Rudy Jaramillo has given the city’s human resources manager additional management responsibilities while the city government transitions to a new city manager.

Mary Lucy Baca took on the additional responsibilities today at Jaramillo’s direction, as Jaramillo continues to consider an appointment to the city manager vacancy.

“I have accepted only on the basis that it would be temporary,” Baca wrote in a memo to city employees.

A draft agenda for Monday’s regular city council meeting includes a closed session during which Baca and the city manager’s position will be discussed.

According to the New Mexico Open Meetings Act, the mayor and city councilors can meet behind closed doors to discuss “limited personnel matters,” which includes promotion and hiring, among other things.

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