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City Council Minutes and Agendas February 2022 - Present

City Council Meetings January (2022 & Prior)

City Council Workshops (January 2022 & Prior)

City Council Priorities as of 2023

Current Council Members include:

• Mayor Rachel Medina rmedina@cortezco.gov
• Mayor Pro-tem Arlina Yazzie ayazzie@cortezco.gov
• Councilmember Lydia DeHaven ldehaven@cortezco.gov
• Councilmember David Rainey drainey@cortezco.gov
• Councilmember Robert Dobry rdobry@cortezco.gov
• Councilmember Matthew Keefauver mkeefauver@cortezco.gov
• Councilmember Dennis Spruell dspruell@cortezco.gov

Council Meeting

• 7:30 p.m.
• Second and fourth Tuesday of each month
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• Cortez City Hall
  123 Roger Smith Avenue
  Cortez, CO 81321

City Council Requirements

The City Council consists of seven members. No person shall be eligible to office as a council member unless at the time of election he or she is a citizen of the United States, at least twenty-one years of age and shall have been for one year immediately preceding such election a resident of the city.

A municipal election for council members is held on the first Monday in April in even numbered years. Council members shall be paid every two weeks. No council person shall receive a payment for a meeting which he or she did not attend. The mayor shall receive as compensation $500 per month.

Each of the other council members shall receive as compensation $400 per month. For information on council election, please see Elections. Work Sessions begin usually at 6 p.m.