No Succession Planning In This Year's IPG Budget

By Michelle Cyr-Whiting

    When Initiatives Prince George approached city council with its proposed budget last year, the plan included funding to carry out a search for President Gerry Offet’s replacement and a half-year’s salary for the two to work side-by-side before Offet retired.

The $90-thousand dollar request for succession planning was turned down by council in 2006 and a similar initiative was not included in the budget IPG presented for approval last night.

Offet says,  "When you have an organization that has a flat structure, you’re vulnerable if everybody answers to one person and that’s the sort of organization that we have."

"My board wants to ensure that when I leave, and I’m in no rush to leave, that there will be a smooth transition," he says, "And that’s in my interest too, I’ve invested a lot of my effort and my heart into this organization."

Offet says after council’s decision last year, he agreed to stay on a year-to-year basis.  "And when it’s contract renewal time in September of this year, the board will tell me how they feel about things and I’ll tell them what I’m prepared to do and we’ll simply go from there."

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