{"id":267230,"date":"2026-04-26T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:56:12","slug":"pecos-votes-to-end-consultancy-partnership-with-former-el-paso-city-manager-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267230\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecos votes to end consultancy partnership with former El Paso city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-authors\">\n\t\tby: Aaron Montes\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPosted: Apr 24, 2026 \/ 08:18 PM MDT\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: Apr 24, 2026 \/ 08:18 PM MDT\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2013 Former El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez\u2019s consultant agreement with the Town of Pecos will come to an end after a unanimous council vote.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez\u2019s agreement with Pecos expires on April 30, according to a Pecos council decision. Councilman Randy Graham proposed the action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know his contract runs out in a week or two but I would like for everybody to know how we feel about this to also put it on record,\u201d Graham said before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said the Town of Pecos has paid Gonzalez $9,500 a month for consulting services. According to a copy of his contract, Gonzalez has worked as a consultant for Pecos since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is the current city manager of Midland. He was appointed by the Midland City Council in July 2023. The El Paso City Council voted to end Gonzalez\u2019s agreement earlier that year in a 5-4 vote.<\/p>\n<p>KTSM has reached out to the City of Midland and Gonzalez for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by: Aaron Montes Posted: Apr 24, 2026 \/ 08:18 PM MDT Updated: Apr 24, 2026 \/ 08:18 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-267230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}