Retirements, resignations led to high number of City Hall vacancies

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“I think through some of that process … it did lead to some retirements and resignations of that nature.”

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The length of the vacancies was a contributing factor to the overall positive variance in the general fund operational analysis. Day said that with the vacancies at the mid and upper management level, it takes longer to find people who are qualified for those positions.

He said they were looking for people with not only the right qualifications, but the right character for the positions.

“It’s not unusual for some of those positions to be vacant a little bit longer than some of our more entry-level positions.”

In 2014, the City had to fill the director positions of corporate services, planning and development services and public works departments. In those cases, the City conducted a search in order to find out-of-city candidates to fill the positions.

As well, the City promoted Jody Boulet to the community services director position and Sherry Person to the city clerk position.

“There were a number of changeovers that occurred and with that, there’s always a little bit of vacancies that get created when people move up from inside.”

The vacancies at the upper levels did have an effect on operations. Day said that when there is a shortage of staffing in senior positions, staff are asked to step off and cover off these responsibilities.

“There wasn’t a lot of adverse performance in the operation of the City, I would suggest, but really what it did do is it created these variances, these favourable variances throughout the budget,” Day said.

As for whether the City could experience a similar amount of vacancies in 2015, Day cast doubt on that possibility. He said there will always be some turnover at all levels in an organization.

“But I don’t think you’re going to see anything to the extent that occurred that impacted our 2014 financials.”

-With files from Chelsea Laskowski.

tjames@panow.com

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