{"id":22015,"date":"2016-04-13T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/city-bids-adieu-to-city-manager\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:07:32","slug":"city-bids-adieu-to-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/city-bids-adieu-to-city-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"City bids adieu to city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She knew something was planned for her last regular Assembly meeting \u2014 it was in the meeting agenda after all \u2014 but Kim Kiefer had no idea six mayors would come together to give her a proper send off into retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pleasantly surprised and very humbled by the outpouring from my friends and family,\u201d Kiefer said Tuesday over the phone. Kiefer will officially leave her post as the city\u2019s manager April 30, at which point Rorie Watt will take over.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ken Koelsch said at the meeting that Kiefer has volunteered or worked for the city since 1976. During that time she has worked alongside five full-time mayors and 23 different Assembly members.<\/p>\n<p>Not all the mayors she has worked with could see her off on Monday, but four \u2014 Sally Smith, Sen. Dennis Egan, Bruce Botelho and Merrill Sanford \u2014 made the trip to talk to a room of more than 60 friends and family members about the impact she had on their lives and the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She knew something was planned for her last regular Assembly meeting \u2014 it was in the meeting agenda after all \u2014 but Kim Kiefer had no idea six mayors would come together to give her a proper send off into retirement. \u201cI was pleasantly surprised and very humbled by the outpouring from my friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":22016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015","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=22015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22015"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}