# Deputy Corporate Officer Appointment

Meeting: Regular Council — March 21, 2022

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## AI-processed summary

Report recommending the appointment of a Deputy Corporate Officer for the City.

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### Introduction

Source pages: 116–117

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### Staff Report to Council

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## Staff Report to Council

### DATE:
Monday, March 21, 2022

### DEPARTMENT:
Administration

### SUBJECT:
Deputy Corporate Officer Appointment

### BACKGROUND:
The Community Charter requires each municipality to appoint a Corporate Officer to oversee the following duties and functions:

- Ensuring that accurate minutes of the meetings of Council and Council committees are prepared;
- Ensuring that the minutes, bylaws and other records of the business of Council and Council committees are maintained and kept safe;
- Ensuring that access is provided to records of Council and Council committees;
- Administering oaths and taking affirmations, affidavits and declarations;
- Certifying copies of bylaws and other documents;
- Accepting, on behalf of the Council or municipality, notices and documents that are required or permitted to be given to, served on, filed with or otherwise provided to Council or the municipality; and
- Keeping the corporate seal, if any, and having it affixed to documents as required (Langford does not use a corporate seal).

### COMMENTARY:
The current appointments for Corporate Officer and signing authority for contracts and agreements are:

- Acting Director of Corporate Services Marie Watmough is Corporate Officer
- The following staff members are Deputy Corporate Officers:
  - Chief Administrative Officer Darren Kiedyk
  - Director of Engineering Michelle Mahovlich
  - Director of Finance Michael Dillabaugh
  - Director of Planning Matthew Baldwin
  - Manager of Legislative Services Adriana Proton
  - Executive Assistant Julie Coneybeer
- All seven employees named above are also staff signing authorities for Council-approved documents such as contracts.

Langford.ca  
t 250.478.7882  
e administration@langford.ca  
2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue  
Langford, BC V9B 2X8

### FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

### LEGAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

### OPTIONS:

Option 1

THAT Council:
1. Rescind the appointment of Adriana Proton as Deputy Corporate Officer; AND

AND Option 2

THAT Council:
2. Appoint Will Ying-udomrat, Acting Manager of Legislative Services as Deputy Corporate Officer.

OR Option 3

THAT Council not appoint Will Ying-udomrat as Deputy Corporate Officer at this time.

SUBMITTED BY: Marie Watmough, Acting Director of Corporate Services  
Concurrence: Darren Kiedyk, Chief Administrative Officer

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