Battleford council approved the contract for the CAO position at its meeting Monday. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

By Angela Brown

In the chambers

Town council approves extending CAO contract

Sep 18, 2019 | 5:04 PM

Battleford lawmakers approved the contract for the town’s CAO position at their recent meeting.

Council agreed to extend the contract for John Enns-Wind at $109,000 per year from January, 2019 to December 2022.

Mayor Ames Leslie said the CAO’s contract expired this year, so council wanted to extend the date to 2022 as the contract will end through the next term of council. This way the new council will have an opportunity to discuss the next contract.

Council agreed to a proposed resolution that said as of Dec. 31, 2022, when the new contract ends, three members of council – the mayor and two councillors – will negotiate the contract. Council will follow this process for all future CAOs starting no later than six months prior to the expiry date of the current contract, as part of a change in the negotiation method.

“It brings a little more transparency to having the team negotiate contracts going forward,” Leslie said during the meeting.

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Leslie said in the past it has been the mayor’s responsibility to negotiate the contract with the CAO but the new process will have more members of council involved.

“[It] just creates a little bit more uniformity in the process, and it also gives a different set of eyes,” Leslie said. “When we go to the table with the employees’ union it is not just one person that sits at the table there is a board of people, because everybody sees perspectives a little bit different.”

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