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LAS CRUCES 鈥� Do帽a Ana County commissioners unanimously voted to terminate County Manager Scott Andrews鈥� employment contract Tuesday afternoon.

The commissioners spent two hours in closed session before returning to their chambers. In open session, Commissioner Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez made a motion to end the contract effective immediately, without cause. All five commissioners voted yes.

鈥淥ur next steps: We will be communicating out with staff and setting up our next course of action,鈥� Chairman Manny Sanchez said after the vote. 鈥淎s we move forward with this, we will announce more to the public, but at this point we鈥檝e reached the end of our agenda.鈥�

The procedure left vague whether Andrews resigned or was fired. The answer appears to be: neither, exactly.

Andrews told the Journal he handed in a separation agreement rather than a resignation letter last week, but did not comment further on the process. In a statement, the county said Andrews would receive six months of his nearly $229,000 salary.

鈥淭he County Manager's employment contract contained provisions governing termination but did not establish a process for an unprompted resignation,鈥� county spokesperson Ariana Parra wrote the Journal on Wednesday. 鈥淎ccordingly, the Board acted to formally conclude the employment relationship through the contract's termination provisions. After the termination was approved by the Board, both parties signed and executed a separation agreement.鈥�

In a statement to the Journal, Andrews expressed gratitude for his time at New Mexico鈥檚 second-most populous county and praise for department leaders. He had held the job since October 2024, when he succeeded Fernando Macias.

Andrews cited successes in obtaining voter approval for $140 million in general obligation bonds for a number of facilities across the county, including a new theater space at the county fairgrounds. The county has also invested in a new emergency operations center and elections headquarters.

Andrews came under pressure nearly from the start, when the county took Sheriff Kim Stewart to court in a dispute involving commissioning deputies and conflicts with the human resources department. Commissioners requested a special audit early in 2025, as did the sheriff, prompting a probe spanning county operations that resulted in a raft of serious findings and an order from the state to appoint a fiscal agent and submit a corrective action plan addressing its use of state funds.

In June, after the audit report was released, Undersheriff Robert Parra publicly called for Andrews to be fired over alleged retaliation against county employees who cooperated with auditors. He also called for the termination of deputy county attorney Cari Neill, who had by then submitted her resignation after emailing Andrews to complain about a lack of communication over several months and organizational changes.

Andrews also oversaw negotiations over the county鈥檚 separation from the regional water utility Camino Real Regional Utility Authority, which provides service to Sunland Park as well as county lands outside city limits. 

Overlapping that controversy was Project Jupiter, the contentious data center project currently under construction in Santa Teresa, over which Andrews became a lightning rod for public uproar. Andrews nonetheless cited it among the major accomplishments of his time as manager.

The nature of the project was revealed to the public at a county meeting last August, by which time Andrews and county staff had been negotiating for months with developers BorderPlex Digital Assets and Stack Infrastructure under nondisclosure agreements.

Anger toward Andrews intensified after the county agreed to a public town hall to hear opponents of the project and critics of the process. On short notice, the county revealed that the meeting had been handed over to the project鈥檚 developers to run as an open house and job fair.

鈥淭he way that our board and executive staff has been treated recently is far from acceptable,鈥� Andrews wrote. 鈥淚 know what I signed up for with the day job, but when it impacts my family that changes everything.鈥�

Rumors had swirled over the past week that Andrews was on his way out. On the website LinkedIn, where Andrews is prolific, he that sounded like a farewell. He stated: 鈥淪ometimes the strongest thing we can do isn鈥檛 holding on. It鈥檚 letting go.鈥�

Andrews has also been on the job market. On June 2, he was included on a list of candidates for a city manager position in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.

Algernon 顿鈥橝尘尘补蝉蝉补 is the Journal鈥檚 southern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at adammassa@abqjournal.com.