There are over 750 municipalities in Saskatchewan, and they each require an administrator to do the work, which is becoming more skilled every day. Af.
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As Don Sangster explained, finding administrators who meet the government’s criteria are hard to come by.
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Sangster is the mayor of the Resort Village of Kannata Valley, a seasonal cottage community that lies 40 minutes north of Regina. Although the village currently has an administrator with the right credentials, that wasn’t always the case, and Sangster worries that it might be difficult to fill the position in future should the time come to hire someone new.
CAO Weinheimer Wikipedia describes a chief administrative officer (CAO) as “a top-tier executive who supervises the daily operations of an organization and is ultimately responsible for its performance. A CAO is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental organizations and the de facto head of the organization. In a municipal context, the title is usually used as an alternative for city manager, county administrator, or county executive, particularly in cases where the position does not include powers such as the authority to appoint or dismiss department heads.” Urban Municipal Administrators Association of Saskatchewan (UMAAS) is the board that certifies individuals to become CAO’s within Saskatchewan since the mid-1950s when a large number of Town Clerks formally came together to discuss items of mutual interest.