{"id":9236,"date":"2025-09-26T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:31:05","slug":"region-of-queens-hires-deputy-cao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/09\/26\/region-of-queens-hires-deputy-cao\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens hires deputy CAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7966\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7966\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4576-1024x722.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4576-1024x722.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4576-768x542.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4576-1536x1084.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4576-2048x1445.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Region of Queens administration building. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Region of Queens has hired a deputy chief administrative officer.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Hirtle will start the job on Oct. 20. He&#8217;s currently the manager of community attraction and communications with the Town of Bridgewater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that Patrick will be joining our team as deputy CAO. Patrick brings a unique perspective to this role \u2013 he has more than 10 years\u2019 experience in municipal government, and has been a councillor in Town of Bridgewater several years ago,\u201d Willa Thorpe, the region&#8217;s CAO, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we interviewed Patrick, we were very impressed with his extensive experience in municipal and private sector communications, strong skills and training in emergency management, and strength and proficiency leading a cohesive staff team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deputy CAO new position was created this past year. Hirtle will assist Thorpe with projects and administration and he&#8217;ll oversee staff in administration, community economic development, communications, information technology, protective services, and policy and bylaw development.<\/p>\n<p>According to his LinkedIn profile, Hirtle has worked for Bridgewater for almost 11 years. He is also the former communications co-ordinator at Covey Island Boatworks. He served one term as a Bridgewater town councillor. Before that, he worked as a journalist for Lighthouse Publishing, which used to print the Bridgewater Bulletin and Lunenburg Progress Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Bridgewater and raised in Mahone Bay, according to the region&#8217;s news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m both honoured and excited to have been selected as the Region of Queens&#8217; new deputy CAO,&#8221; Hirtle said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of great things happening here in Queens, and I can\u2019t wait to get to work with the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The annual salary range for the deputy CAO position is $113,339 to $149,885.<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Region of Queens has hired a deputy chief administrative officer. Patrick Hirtle will start the job on Oct. 20. He&#8217;s currently the manager of community attraction and communications with the Town of Bridgewater. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that Patrick will be joining our team as deputy CAO. Patrick brings a unique perspective to this role \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/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":[3453,39,3452,49,24,1129,3064],"class_list":["post-9236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-deputy-cao","tag-liverpool","tag-patrick-hirtle","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens","tag-town-of-bridgewater","tag-willa-thorpe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236","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=9236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9237,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions\/9237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}