- Kevin Hall has been hired as La Plata County’s Deputy County Manager. Hall formerly worked for the City of Durango and was also the Interim Community Development Director for La Plata County.
- Lynn Hyde has been hired as the new Community Development Director and is expected to start at the end of July. Hyde is a Durango resident who currently is employed remotely as a Community Development Review Planner for Bozeman, MT. She holds a Masters of Urban Design & Planning from the University of Washington and previously worked for five years as a planner for the city of North Bend, WA.
- Roby Douglas joined La Plata County as the new Natural Resources Planner. Douglas is from Dallas, where she worked in the private sector as an analyst. She’s now working on LPC projects including oil & gas, solar, telecommunications and water.