Staff Directory

Office of the Mayor and CAO
Council Email Council  
Chief Administrative Officer  Ted Swabey 250-746-3117
Executive Assistant Terri Brennan 250-746-3117
General Manager, Corporate Services Talitha Soldera 250-746-3265

General Manager, Planning,

Development, and Community Services

 George Farkas 250-746-3265
Manager, Legislative Services / 
Corporate Officer		 Michelle Martineau 250-746-3100
Deputy Corporate Officer Tricia Mayea 250-746-3100 

 

Communications Manager,
Communications &
Public Engagement		 Barb Floden 250-746-3100
Engineering Director,
Engineering		 Clay Reitsma 250-746-3103
Director, Subdivision
& Environmental Services		 David Conway 250-746-3103
Senior Environmental
Specialist		 Dave Preikshot 250-746-3103
Financial
Services		 Director, Finance Talitha Soldera 250-746-3100
Fire & Bylaw Fire Chief &
Senior Manager,
Bylaw Services		 Martin Drakeley 250-746-3266
Manager, Bylaw &
Business Licensing		 Kim Ferris 250-746-3204

Assistant Fire Chief

 Jason deJong  250-746-3276
Human
Resources

Director, Human

Resources and

Health & Safety 

 Marla Laycock 250-746-3100
Health, Safety
& Disability
Management Advisor		  Kelly Kinghorn 250-746-3100
Operations Director, Operations Shawn Cator  250-746-3106
Parks,
Recreation &
Forestry		 Director, Parks,

Recreation & 
Forestry

Neil Pukesh

 250-746-3193
Municipal Forester Shaun Mason 250-746-3100

Manager,

Parks

 Keona Wiley 250-746-3110

Manager,
Recreation

 Jason Blood 250-746-7665
Planning & 
Building		 Director, Planning
& Building		 Rob Conway 250-746-3119
Manager, Planning Chris Osborne 250-746-3119
Chief Building
Inspector		 Ben Robertson 250-746-3104
Information
Technology
& Management

Director, Information

Technology & Business

Solutions

 Manuela Herzig 250-746-3100
Information
Management Office		 Alyssa Meiner 250-746-3100
Website-related
inquires		    
FOI (access to
records) Information
    


For additional information, please see North Cowichan’s high-level organization chart.

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