{"id":439870,"date":"2026-01-31T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439870\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:45:07","slug":"breaking-emily-collins-named-interim-executive-director-of-cda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439870\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Emily Collins named interim executive director of CDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Breaking: Emily Collins named interim executive director of CDA<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:52 pm Friday, January 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>UMATILLA, MORROW COUNTIES \u2014 During a special meeting Friday afternoon, the Columbia Development Authority appointed project coordinator Emily Collins to a new role as interim executive director.<\/p>\n<p>Collins fills the vacancy left by Greg Smith, who <a href=\"https:\/\/eastoregonian.com\/2026\/01\/28\/breaking-greg-smith-resigns-from-columbia-development-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unexpectedly resigned<\/a> Tuesday, Jan. 27. Her appointment was approved unanimously by the CDA board.<\/p>\n<p>The board had earlier in its special meeting adopted a hiring policy and position description of the full-time role. Collins will earn a salary of about 90% of what Smith had earned, or about $118,800, while she holds the temporary position for a time not to exceed six months without additional CDA board action.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking: Emily Collins named interim executive director of CDA Published 3:52 pm Friday, January 30, 2026 UMATILLA, MORROW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-439870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}