{"id":18622,"date":"2016-11-08T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ketchikan-borough-hires-new-manager\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:01:06","slug":"ketchikan-borough-hires-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ketchikan-borough-hires-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchikan borough hires new manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

KETCHIKAN<\/strong> \u2014 A California city manager has been selected to serve as the new manager for Alaska\u2019s Ketchikan Gateway Borough.<\/p>\n

The Borough Assembly picked Ruban Duran for the job on Friday. He\u2019s leaving his position as manager of the Southern California city of El Centro and will take over for the borough\u2019s outgoing manager, Dan Bockhorst, on Dec. 19, The Ketchikan Daily News reported.<\/p>\n

Duran was chosen to manage the borough over two other candidates \u2014 Washington state-based municipal employee Robert Grumbach and Albert Scott, who most recently managed a homeowners association near Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s got a wealth of experience that will be helpful and relevant to Ketchikan,\u201d assembly member Stephen Bradford said of Duran.<\/p>\n

As manager of El Centro, Duran said he has been dealing with issues such as increased costs and financial burdens brought on by the state of California.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bad and getting worse,\u201d Duran said. \u201cThe state continues to shift costs and work to the cities and counties and trying to take away revenues at the same time. It\u2019s turning into a real difficult situation for the communities \u2014 particularly the rural communities in California.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Alaska is facing its own financial troubles with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Duran said the state is in \u201ca much better situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a true desire by the state Legislature to do something about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duran and his wife have already sold their house in El Centro and are looking forward to making the move to Ketchikan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more we looked at it we realized, irrespective of the outcome, we want to live here,\u201d Duran said. \u201cThis is a community that likes being a community. You have a great arts community \u2014 people like each other here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duran\u2019s five-year contract with the borough states that he will be paid an annual salary of $110,000. He will also be entitled to a 10-percent bonus if he remains in the position for the full term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KETCHIKAN \u2014 A California city manager has been selected to serve as the new manager for Alaska\u2019s Ketchikan Gateway Borough. The Borough Assembly picked Ruban Duran for the job on Friday. He\u2019s leaving his position as manager of the Southern California city of El Centro and will take over for the borough\u2019s outgoing manager, Dan … Continue reading Ketchikan borough hires new manager<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}