{"id":418546,"date":"2026-08-27T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418546\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:38:14","slug":"corpus-christi-animal-care-services-director-resigns-interim-director-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418546\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi Animal Care Services director resigns; interim director named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corpus Christi Animal Care Services Director Katie Chapa has resigned, effective Thursday, according to City Manager Peter Zanoni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zanoni said Chapa is leaving the position to focus on finishing graduate school as she prepares for a career with a school district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Assistant Animal Care Services Director Cynthia Martinez will serve as interim director following Chapa&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The leadership change comes as the city is already working with an executive recruiter on a nationwide search for a permanent Animal Care Services director, Zanoni said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city has not announced when it expects to name a permanent director.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi Animal Care Services Director Katie Chapa has resigned, effective Thursday, according to City Manager Peter Zanoni.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15969,74853,155,51108,157,156,144992,31767,145790],"class_list":["post-418546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-animal-care-services","tag-city-manager-peter-zanoni","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-animal-care-services","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-cynthia-martinez","tag-interim-director","tag-katie-chapa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418546","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=418546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}