Palmquist accepts Milton-Freewater city manager job<\/p>\n
Published 6:30 pm Friday, July 31, 2026<\/p>\n
MILTON-FREEWATER \u2014 Aaron Palmquist announced Friday, July 30, he has accepted a job offer to fill the vacant seat of Milton-Freewater city manager.<\/p>\n
Palmquist, who is the city manager of Irrigon, said in a phone interview his final acceptance will come with successful contract negotiation, at which time he\u2019ll give Irrigon a 60-day notice.<\/p>\n
Milton-Freewater City Council President Steve Irving said the city received Palmquist\u2019s email and the council will begin the contract negotiation at its Aug. 10 regular session.<\/p>\n
Irving added he\u2019s pleased to see the process moving forward after previous city manager candidate Nicole Schneider turned down the proposed contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think (Palmquist) understands this takes time, unlike our previous candidate,\u201d Irving said.<\/p>\n
Palmquist said he\u2019s been looking over housing options in Milton-Freewater, noting those are limited.<\/p>\n
He knows there are challenges ahead for Milton-Freewater, \u201cbut there are challenges in every life,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to see the city and staff work collectively for the benefit of Milton-Freewater,\u201d Palmquist added. \u201cThere\u2019s hope, there\u2019s opportunity \u2026 Change is a process, not an event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palmquist accepts Milton-Freewater city manager job Published 6:30 pm Friday, July 31, 2026 MILTON-FREEWATER \u2014 Aaron Palmquist announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-797442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797442","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=797442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}