The District of Logan Lake is once again searching for a chief administrative officer.
After serving just four months as Logan Lake’s top official, Kathleen Day resigned from her position earlier this month.
“It’s tough to find the right fit, and it’s always two ways, and I think in this case it just wasn’t a good fit for her and she resigned,” said Logan Lake Mayor Robin Smith.
“I think that we just have different ideologies and different expectations and I think that in this case it just wasn’t a match,” Smith said.
Logan Lake has now gone through three full-time CAOs in the past two years.
One retired in September of 2013, and the town parted ways with its next CAO after less than eight months the job.
An interim CAO was brought in after that and Day took over the position beginning in April of this year.
“We’ve had a pretty rough road the last little while,” Smith said.
This was Day’s first official CAO job, although she has served as a deputy CAO in the past.
Day has had 22-years of experience serving in local government for small communities.
She was the director of finance for the District of Lillooet for 17 years.
While the CAO position has been a revolving door, Smith said the other senior staff positions have been stable, with the last new hire for those positions being years ago.
Smith told the Herald an interim CAO will not be brought in this time, and the duties of the position will be split amongst the corporate officer, director of finance, public works superintendent and the fire chief.
She said the corporate officer and director of finance will take turns serving as council’s one employee, which each covering the vacation time of the other.
