Mayor loses his second Chief of Staff - decides not to renew contracts for the rest of his staff.

News 100 redBy Pepper Parr

November 23, 2014

BURLINGTON, ON.

 

Jackie Isada, Chief of Staff, Daphne Jaques, Assistant to the Mayor and Corry Holloway, Assistant to the Mayor’s Office will all have new digs come the New Year.

City Hall announced that Ms Isada will be leaving her job with the Mayor and joining McMaster University as the Manager for Government Affairs at McMaster University. Ms Isada joined the Mayor’s office in 2013

Jackie Isada will bring her wonderful Newfoundland chuckle and her ability to work with people to the Office of the Mayor.  Rick Goldring may never be the same.

Jackie Isada leaves the Office of the Mayor to join McMaster University. There is no replacement at this time.

The Gazette learned that the Mayor is going to go back to square one and start all over on the staffing side. Staff in the Mayor’s office are all contract employees

When he set up his office in 2010 Mayor Rick Goldring brought Frank McKeown in as his first Chief of Staff and Daphne Jaques as an assistant; both were part of his election campaign team. Julie Rorison  joined the eighth floor staff soon after.

That all came to an end when McKeown left the job as Chief of Staff in December of 2012 and Ms Riordan left the Mayor’s office to join the Clerk’s office in 2014.

There has been no mention as to who will replace Ms Isada however a few names have been put in front of the Mayor.

When asked Mayor Goldring said he was not aware of any situation in the past when a Mayor replaced all his staff members at the beginning of a second term.

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Mayor Rick Goldring loses his second chief of staff and decides not to renew the contracts of the balance of the team on the eighth floor.

When Goldring was a Council member for ward 5, Georgie Gartside was his assistant. At the time she fully expected to join the Mayor on the eighth floor but that did not happen. Gartside was asked to work with newly elected Council member Marianne Meed Ward where she became one of the most efficient councilor assistants and serves almost as an advisor to Meed Ward.

Senior staff at city hall are not quite sure where the Mayor is going in terms of staffing and what he has in the way of longer term plans. Citizens might get some sense of where the Mayor wants to go with his thinking and what he feels he needs in the way of staff when he delivers his Inaugural address December 1st.

Right now it looks like chaos and confusion.

 

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1 comment to Mayor loses his second Chief of Staff – decides not to renew contracts for the rest of his staff.

  • Carol

    The girls name was Julie Rorison.

    Seems like there’s alit of staff turnover there at the city. Seems like they are in distress. Clerks office. Mayors office. Councillors office. They need new leadership.