Councilors confirm Geisel as city manager
Matt Geisel is the new Rio Rancho city manager. File photo.
City of Rio Rancho economic development manager Matt Geisel is the next city manager.
Rio Rancho Governing Body members voted 5-1 at their virtual meeting Thursday night to move Geisel to the top appointed position in the city, effective May 3. Councilor Jim Owen cast the dissenting vote.
Owen said he was disturbed that Geisel was leaving the position of acting Development Services Department director, where Owen thought he was most talented, and concerned about the direction of the city with the development director chair empty.
Insight: Manager decision could be most important
Cheryl Everett
One former City of Rio Rancho staffer said to me recently that selecting a new city manager is the most important decision a mayor and council can make.
Rio Rancho has been without a permanent city manager since Keith Riesberg left in 2018. His replacement only stayed a matter of months. But the long search for a replacement could be nearing an end.
Mayor Gregg Hull has nominated city development director Matt Geisel for the vacant city manager post. Geisel has no experience as a city manager, though he has filled other city roles over the last several years and is now being enthusiastically supported by Rio Rancho’s development and civic communities.
City agreement would clear up debt from closed company
A crowd celebrates the opening of Stolar Research Corp.’s Rio Rancho building in 2013. The company closed in 2015 and dissolved in 2018. Nature’s Toolbox is now leasing the facility. Dean Hanson file photo.
The Rio Rancho Governing Body has approved a settlement arranging for a private company to catch up on back payments it owes through a 2013 economic development agreement.
During their virtual meeting Thursday evening, governing body members voted unanimously to update the ordinance that authorized the issuance and sale of industrial revenue bonds to help recruit scientific research company Stolar Research Corp. to Rio Rancho. Mayor Gregg Hull voted in the absence of City Councilor Daniel Stoddard.
Where Do Quarterbacks Come From?
Part 1 - Good Teams
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I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but the Washington Football Team (WFT) has found itself in need of a starting quarterback this offseason. This has never happened before, so I am sure that most of you will be as shocked as I was when you find out.
But seriously now, like many of the other worst teams of the salary cap era, the WFT has struggled to find quality starting QBs for decades. As the new leadership attempts to do what few Redskins’ front offices of the past have managed since Bobby Beathard picked Mark Rypien in the sixth round of the 1986 draft (#146 overall), I thought it might be instructive to have a look at how other teams with differing levels of success have approached the problem.