EL PASO, Tx., September 10, 2025: Former City of El Paso Chief Financial Officer, Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria is returning to El Paso. In a statement, officials with the Fort Worth Independent School District announced yesterday that Arrieta-Candelaria will be leaving her post at the school district later this month to return to El Paso.
Arrieta-Candelaria served as El Paso’s comptroller from 2008 until she resigned in 2014..
Arrieta-Candelaria was the city’s financial officer when the city moved out of the city hall building it owned and purchased the El Paso Times building to make way for the baseball stadium where the Chihuahuas currently play. In June 2012, the city committed to building the stadium where the city hall building stood after MountainStar Sports Group secured the Chihuahuas Triple-A baseball team. The city demolished the city hall building the following year for the stadium. Although the ballpark stadium was budgeted for $50 million, by the time it was finished, the cost had increased to $60 million by 2013. In addition to the rising cost to build the stadium, higher interest in the bonds used to fund the project increased the cost to the taxpayers by $17 million…