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[21:00] Welcome to Clearwater County special council meeting for Friday, June 12, 2026, called the meeting
[21:07] order at 10 o'clock. Asking if there are any additions or deletions to today's agenda,
[21:14] if not, I'd be looking for a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Councillor Humphrey
[21:18] makes the, you'd like to make a motion to adopt the agenda? Yes, that's great. We have a motion
[21:23] on the floor from Councillor Humphrey to adopt the agenda as presented. Seeing no discussion,
[21:28] I'll call the question, all those in favour?
[21:31] Councillor Sir Mack is joining us online this morning, are you in favour of that motion
[21:35] Councillor Sir Mack?
[21:37] Yes, I am.
[21:38] We have confirmation that was unanimous vote moving on to item 3 in our agenda, which is
[21:45] the appointment of Chief Administrative Officer and Interim Chief Administrative Officer.
[21:49] Item 3.1 and I'm going to defer to Miss Hate to present this agenda item, please.
[21:55] Thank you, Ray. Good morning, Council.
[21:58] Clearwater County's current chief CAO will be retiring effective June 30.
[22:05] The recruitment process for a new CAO has been completed and there it has been a person
[22:11] hired for the position effective July 13.
[22:15] In accordance with the MGA Section 2052, Council must appoint only one person to carry out
[22:22] duties, powers, and functions of the CAO. Due to the gap between the outgoing CAO's retirement
[22:29] and the new CAO's start date, the position will be vacant for a period of 12 days. As a result,
[22:36] in addition to appointing the incoming CAO, Council must also appoint an interim CAO
[22:41] to ensure continuity of operations during this period. Clearwater County CAO,
[22:47] So by law, 26071, section 4.9 requires that when the CAO position is vacant for any reason,
[22:55] council must appoint a member of senior management to serve as interim CAO.
[23:00] And I understand that Eric Hanson is stepping up for that role.
[23:07] And that would be effective July 1st.
[23:11] Thank you, Messade.
[23:14] Council did go through the recruitment process to recruit and look for a new CEO, the process
[23:20] was really good. There was lots of candidates. There was lots of great candidates that
[23:25] we had interviewed and went through. So I will move that Council appoint Michael Simpson
[23:33] as chief administrative officer as established by Clearwater County bylaw, 26071, effective
[23:40] July 13th, 2026. Any
[23:47] comments? Discussion? Counselor Sir Mac, do you have any comments?
[23:52] Yes, I do.
[23:55] I would like to know who is the CAO between now and the 30th.
[24:03] Right now, CAO
[24:04] Emmons would be the will remain a CAO of Clearwater County
[24:10] until June 30th. Until, yes, that's correct.
[24:15] Okay. Okay. Do we need a motion for that or is that just that's currently
[24:21] an effect that's currently an effect right now. Councilor Sir Mac. Okay fine. Then
[24:27] now we know that we have a CAO until the 30th and in and in turn from the first
[24:34] to the 13th to the 12th and then the new CAO takes over in the 13th. Is that right?
[24:40] That's that's correct. Councilor Sir Mac. Okay. Thank you. You're very welcome. Is there any discussion or any seeing none? I'll call the question all those in favor.
[24:56] Councilor Sir Mac is in favor. That's unanimous.
[24:59] There's another motion following this one.
[25:04] Deputy Reeve, go ahead, please.
[25:05] Thank you.
[25:07] I would make the motion that Council appoint senior management employee Eric Hansen as
[25:12] interim chief administrative officer for a term effective from July 1st to July 12th,
[25:18] 2026.
[25:21] Excellent.
[25:22] We have motion on the floor from Deputy Regent McKay.
[25:23] The Council appoint senior management employee Eric Hansen as interim chief administrative officer
[25:28] for the term effective July 1st to July 12th, 2026.
[25:32] Is there any discussion on that motion?
[25:34] Councillor Sermak, do you have any comments or clarity?
[25:38] No, I'm not out there, I'm
[25:42] sorry, Councillor Sermak, it wasn't quite able to hear you.
[25:46] I'm not saying you're out there, I'm trying.
[25:48] Okay.
[25:49] If there's no comments, I'll call the question all those in favor,
[25:55] supported by Council
[25:56] unanimously.
[26:03] agenda here for the special council meeting of July 12, 2026, motion for adjournment, which
[26:09] is item number four.
[26:12] Councilor McCulley makes a motion for adjournment.
[26:15] I'll call a question.
[26:16] All those in favour?
[26:20] Again, that is unanimously carried by Council.
[26:22] Thank you for joining us today.