{"id":8654,"date":"2025-05-05T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:46:50","slug":"queens-councillors-to-approve-new-cao-continue-budget-talks-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/05\/05\/queens-councillors-to-approve-new-cao-continue-budget-talks-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens councillors to approve new CAO, continue budget talks Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regional councillors are back to budget talks on Tuesday evening. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Region of Queens is about to announce who its new top staffer will be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors will publicly appoint the region\u2019s new chief administrative officer at a special meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a staff report<\/a>, acting municipal clerk Heather Cook says more than 40 applications for the job were received from across Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortlisted candidates went through two interviews with the region\u2019s CAO selection committee. That committee included Mayor Scott Christian, and councillors Maddie Charlton, Stewart Jenkins and Courtney Wentzell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors fired the previous CAO Cody Joudry<\/a> in mid-December. No reason was given for his dismissal. Joudry was on the job for just over a year, hired in September 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan McDougall has filled in as interim CAO since Joudry was fired.<\/span><\/p>\n

The region\u2019s new CAO is set to start the job in mid-June.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nQueens councillors<\/strong> are also back to budget discussions on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This will be the third public meeting about the 2025\/26 budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors began their budget deliberations on April 24 by looking at capital and infrastructure spending. Last week, they tackled the operating budget.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, they\u2019ll address issues that came up in the first two meetings, as well as any other changes or requests from councillors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Scott Christian told QCCR last week<\/a> that the region has about a $1-million surplus from 2024\/25. But he said the specific surplus won\u2019t be known until finance staff go through the final numbers and release the audited figures later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Residents or the media were not provided with draft budget documents as they were last year. So far, only the region\u2019s staff and councillors have a complete picture of the actual numbers from 2024\/25 and the forecasted totals for this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The special meeting will be held at council chambers on White Point Road and livestreamed on YouTube<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Region of Queens is about to announce who its new top staffer will be. Councillors will publicly appoint the region\u2019s new chief administrative officer at a special meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m. In a staff report, acting municipal clerk Heather Cook says more than 40 applications for the job were received from across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3063,3028,1245,2024,2986,1180,1427,2595,95,1246,3062,49,24,226,2597],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2024-25-budget-surplus","tag-2025-26-budget","tag-budget","tag-budget-meetings","tag-budget-talks","tag-cao","tag-cody-joudry","tag-courtney-wentzell","tag-maddie-charlton","tag-municipal-budget","tag-new-cao","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens","tag-scott-christian","tag-stewart-jenkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}