The City of Castlegar has made a decision to consolidate two management positions.
Castlegar’s director of development services Phil Markin will be retiring this year and Lucas Pitts, the city’s current director of public works, will now add director of development services to his portfolio.
Markin has over 30 years of service with the city.
“By amalgamating the director positions, the ongoing savings will allow the city to hire a much needed full-time journeyman mechanic and a part-time public works office assistant,” explained a City of Castlegar press release.
Both of those positions will be unionized.
“Bringing public works and development services together under common leadership makes the best use of resources and aligns our long-term planning with our capital projects and operations,” said Castlegar CAO Chris Barlow.
The change to the director positions are effective immediately and the new mechanic and assistant position will be posted soon.
“The great staff we have throughout the whole organization makes this kind of restructure possible,” said Mayor Lawrence Chernoff. “To be able to combine roles, be more efficient and add more staff to key areas without increasing costs to the tax payer is a major positive.”
