Carleton Place has filled two key staffing vacancies, and didn’t have to look very far afield to do so.
Guy Bourgon is the Town’s new Director of Public Works, and starts work today (Monday, July 13th).
His hiring follows the retirement of former Director of Public Works Dave Young.
Bourgon has held similar positions over his 18 year career- having run Ottawa’s Infrastructure Approvals Department, as well as being a Public Works Director in Arnprior, and more recently, in Mississippi Mills.
The Director of Public Works is primarily responsible for managing the operation of the Town’s infrastructure including sewer, water, roads, bridges, solid waste management, storm water management and fleet.
In two weeks Bourgon will be joined by a former Mississippi Mills colleague, as Niki Dwyer has been hired as the Town’s new Director of Development Services.
She will start he new duties on July 27th.
The Director of Development Services is a new position within Carleton Place administration, created to manage and coordinate all development related activities including engineering, planning, building and heritage.
Salary for the new role is largely being paid for through development applications fee, and will help Carleton Place keep up with a mushrooming development-related workload which in the first four months of this year exceeded the entire volume of files handled in 2018..
Dwyer has an interesting mix of municipal experience as both a former Director of Planning for the Town of Mississippi Mills, and as a current Councillor for the Town of Smiths Falls.