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Kincardine councillors question CAO hiring process By Liz Dadson |
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Kincardine councillors are questioning why a job posting has already gone out for the chief administrative officer (CAO) position before council has even discussed that posting. Current CAO, John deRosenroll, presented council with his resignation July 13 and it was accepted with regret. Council then approved a motion to have mayor Larry Kraemer, deputy mayor Anne Eadie, deRosenroll and clerk Donna MacDougall draw up a proposed list of consultants to be hired to help the municipality fill the CAO's job. In committee-of-the-whole last night (Aug. 3), Kraemer gave council an update on the situation. He said that he met with Eadie, deRosenroll and MacDougall and they have the names of four prospective consultants to present to council for discussion at the Aug. 10 meeting. From there, council will affirm the hiring process and skill set of their future CAO. "Maybe we have some preparatory work to do before we look at hiring a new CAO," said councillor Ron Coristine. "That's what we will discuss next week," said Kraemer. "The job posting has already gone out," said councillor Mike Leggett, "but that wasn't in the motion (from July 13)." "I guess I approved that," said Kraemer. "The intent was to get early interest in it." "We have a lot of footwork to do before we start looking for candidates for the job of CAO," said Leggett. Eadie said the resumes would be kept confidential until the municipality hires a consultant to begin the process of seeking out the new CAO. "If people are applying for a posting that we didn't clarify ahead of time, we have a problem," argued Coristine. Councillor Kenneth Craig agreed, saying this is the opportunity to take a look at the job description of the CAO and make any required changes. "Ron (Coristine) is right," said Craig. "We have resumes coming in but we're not sure of the skill set we want for this position." "There are certain statutory requirements for a CAO," said Kraemer. "We moved the ball forward as far we could so we would be as prepared as possible. That was the intent of the direction from council."
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He said the group of four (Kraemer, Eadie, deRosenroll
and MacDougall) went looking for consultants who had done this kind of
work before, or who had helped other municipalities with the process. Leggett maintained that council should have discussed the CAO's job prior to any of the other work being done. "The discussion is next week," said Kraemer. "We put the ad out there too soon," said councillor Randy Roppel. "That's the worst thing to do. If we hire a consultant, we're not even sure what we want them to do. We're going to get a lot of information (next week) that may not even be relevant." Eadie said that by next week, the prospective consultants would have been interviewed, and council would receive full information on all candidates. She suggested if council members were interested, they could sit in on the interviews. The issue will be debated further Aug. 10. Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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