Logan Lake’s new chief administrative officer, Kathleen Day, is getting down to business now that her first week on the job is in the books.

Day started as the town’s CAO on March 30, introducing herself to city staff and touring facilities that week.

“This is the fun time,” Day said of her first week.

Some of the business now on Day’s plate includes updating the corporation’s website, the construction of a new fire hall — expected to break ground this spring — and completing the implementation of the parks master plan, which includes building a water spray park and expanding the Logan Lake campground.

“She’s just getting oriented right now,” Logan Lake Mayor Robin Smith said, noting there are a lot of things for Day to be updated on such as doctor recruitment and the biosolids issue.

Day has a background in finance, and this is her first official CAO job, although she has served as a deputy CAO in the past.

She is a certified professional accountant, and has spent most of her 22-year career in local government.

She was the director of finance for the District of Lillooet for 17 years and had that same job for three years with the Town of View Royal, B.C.

Day comes to Logan Lake from Summerland, where she had been doing contracted financial work for local governments.

Day said she thinks the biggest challenge of the job will be managing tax levels with services in the town needed to maintain the community given Logan Lake’s small size.

“It’s that balance of trying to ensure that the public funds are spent appropriately and that we’re trying to provide the services requested at tax levels people want,” Day said.

Smith said Day’s passion for public service stood out among the applicants.

“She showed a lot of the sorts of things that we were looking for and the background that she has is very rounded,” Smith said.

Smith wanted someone who was relatively local and Day fit the bill.

“If you can find somebody that’s in the region, that knows the area and is familiar with the Interior, I think that that’s always a bonus,” Smith said.

Last September, Logan Lake parted ways with its previous CAO and contracted the services of Randy Diehl in the interim.

Before that, the district was without a CAO between September 2013 and January 2014 after the outgoing city manager retired.