Apr 1, 2022 • 2 hours ago • 3 minutes reading • 6 comments The City of Windsor CAO, Jason Reynar, poses for a portrait outside City Hall on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Photo by Dax Melmer / Windsor Star
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Just a year after bringing him to the top spot in Windsor Town Hall, the city council announced on Friday the departure of Jason Reynar, with immediate effect.
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The city council chose to “move in a different direction,” he said in an email sent to municipal staff about the sudden departure of the head of administration. Reynar became CAO in April 2021 following the retirement of longtime CAO Onorio Colucci, a 37-year-old City Hall veteran. “It was my honor and privilege to serve the people of this community,” Reinar said in a written statement. “I am very proud of the hard work and resilience shown by the city staff over the past year.” The announcement of Reynar’s departure comes a day after a special closed-door board meeting on a staff issue. Andrew Teliszewsky, Mayor Drew Dilkens’s chief of staff, said on Friday that Dilkens was unable to discuss human resources with the Star.
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In an email to city staff, Dilkens said the city council’s decision to “move in a different direction” from the position of chief executive was “very difficult” but we felt it was right to help meet future needs. of our community “. As it is the year of municipal elections, he added, “it would be right to allow the mayor and the municipal council to be elected” in October “to have a say in the election of their administrative leader”. Over the next several months, members of the city’s corporate leadership team will take on the role of CAO on a temporary basis. The former CAO Colucci will retire in June and serve as a CAO deputy for the second half of 2022. In the city news bulletin on the subject, Dilkens said that last year “presented many challenges. Under Jason’s leadership, management stepped up to meet these challenges with professionalism and dedication. I wish Jason all the best for his future endeavors.
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“There is no shortage of talent at City Hall. “(The corporate leadership) is well placed to govern their departments and I’m excited to announce that OC (Colucci) will be back to help in the coming months.” Last year, Reynar helped launch “many major landmark projects” in the city, “which will continue to have a lasting impact,” the city wrote. They include the launch of the Windsor Works economic diversification plan. to raise $ 5 billion to build the LG-Stellantis Joint Venture’s battery production facility; and to invest in affordable housing, including an eight-year repair program Housing Corporation.
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When Renard took office as Windsor’s top municipal bureaucrat last year – just as more pandemic mitigation measures were announced – he told Windsor Star reporter Brian Cross that it was a “terrible time” and “not a good time for moving, not good. “It’s time to take on an organization like the city, but sometimes you can not choose when the opportunity strikes.” He came to Windsor from Innisfil near Barrie, where he has been CAO since 2015, overseeing a suburban / rural community with a population of 36,566. Windsor’s $ 850 million annual budget is almost 20 times larger than Innisfil’s $ 45 million budget. City councilors contacted by Star on Friday afternoon did not comment on CAO’s departure less than a year after he was hired. Reynar’s departure came just one day after the last day at the office of Windsor Police Chief Pam Mizuno, who announced her departure just a week earlier. [email protected] twitter.com/wstarcampbell
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