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Former Cody Mayor Matt Hall is now helping lead another Wyoming city: On Tuesday, Rawlins officials named Hall as their interim city manager …
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Former Cody Mayor Matt Hall is now helping lead another Wyoming city. On Tuesday, Rawlins officials named Hall as their interim city manager.
"It's what I've been looking for," Hall told the radio station Bigfoot99 after his hiring.
Hall led the City of Cody as mayor from January 2017 through the start of January and made an unsuccessful run for the Wyoming House last year.
After wrapping up his time as mayor, Hall did some lobbying for the Wyoming Association of Municipalities and the Wyoming Community Development Authority, but "I've been wanting ... to kind of transition into some government-style work," he told Bigfoot99.
Before landing the interim job in Rawlins, Hall was a semi-finalist to become Cody's city administrator and a finalist for the city manager role in Casper last month.
The Cody City Council ultimately decided to hire former Riverton City Administrator Tony Tolstedt, who fully took over the Cody role in July. Meanwhile, the Casper council announced last week that it had picked Laramie City Manager Janine Jordan over Hall, interim Casper manager Zulima Lopez and Casper City Attorney Eric Nelson.
But Hall also put in for the interim position in Rawlins, where the current city manager, Tom Sarvey, has been out on medial leave since August, Bigfoot99 reported. Until Hall's appointment, the city's police chief had been filling in as the acting city manager. In taking on the interim manager role, Hall will earn $11,666 per month and receive an additional $1,666 monthly as a housing allowance, according to Rawlins council documents.
Rawlins is a couple thousand residents smaller than Cody, with an estimated population of 7,952 in July 2024. Unlike its Park County counterpart, the Carbon County seat has seen its population decline in recent years.
Hall told Bigfoot99 that there are a lot of differences between the two communities -- saying he would need to learn the cultural differences -- but also a lot of similarities.
At Tuesday's Rawlins City Council meeting, Hall expressed thanks for the opportunity, saying he'd spend the week working hard and getting to know the "lay of the land" at the city.
(Editor's note: This story has been updated with information about Hall's new role as the interim manager in Rawlins.)
