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BIM selects its new chief administrative officer

Liam Edwards is to start as BIM’s CAO on May 26, BIM announced in a press release Friday afternoon.
Liam Edwards against a black backdrop

While COVID may be top of people’s minds, Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) has still needed to fill a couple of its top jobs. The positions of chief administrative officer and fire chief have been vacant since January but at least one is now filled.

Liam Edwards is to start as BIM’s CAO on May 26, BIM announced in a press release Friday afternoon.

The CAO role is the top bureaucrat in the municipality. The CAO “leads, co-ordinates and supports the strategic direction of the municipality to ensure the municipality is accomplishing council’s vision, plan and priorities and the goals of the community,” reads an excerpt from the five-year financial plan.

Edwards is currently deputy inspector of municipalities and executive director of infrastructure and finance in the Local Government Division of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.

“His experience in overseeing major capital projects around the province will serve the Bowen Island Municipality well as there are a number of major capital projects that are ready to launch,” read the press release.

 “Liam’s innovative, collaborative and integrity-based leadership style will be very helpful in finding solutions to some of the municipality’s more challenging issues,” said Mayor Gary Ander in the press release.

Dennis Back, BIM’s interim CAO who took over from former CAO Kathy Lalonde late last year, will continue in his role until the transition is made