Following Monday’s meeting of Richmond Municipal Council, Don Marchand was announced as the permanent CAO for the municipality. Marchand has been employed with the municipality for the past 25 years.
Following the resignation of former CAO Warren Olsen in October, 2016 after the findings of a forensic audit discovered questionable financial practices by the municipality, Maris Freimanis was hired late in 2016, then former CAO Louis Digout came on in the summer of 2017, both on an interim basis.
Richmond County then announced that Kent MacIntyre would be the new CAO in early 2018, but during a public meeting on April 1, 2019, council voted to terminate his contract, citing a lack of financial information, specifically related to his use of funds from a sundry account.
Three days later, Marchand, a former revenue manager, was announced as interim CAO during an emergency meeting.