Brampton set to hire new top civil servant
Harry Schlange, chief administrative officer at Niagara Region, has been tapped to take up the top administrative post in Brampton.

thestar.com
April 6, 2016
By Peter Criscione

After a yearlong search, the City of Brampton has narrowed the list of candidates for the job of chief administrative officer (CAO) down to just one.

The Guardian can confirm that Harry Schlange, chief administrative officer at Niagara Region, has been tapped to take up the top administrative post in Brampton. Council held a special meeting Wednesday to ratify the deal.

In Niagara, Schlange, 58, spearheaded a mass cleansing of senior bureaucrats - an action plan that plays well into Mayor Linda Jeffrey’s promise to restore accountability and transparency at city hall following years of turmoil at the civic level.

The recommendation to hire Schlange will go before council for a final vote Friday.

Schlange would be the sixth person to occupy Brampton’s managerial hot seat over the last decade.
The city has been searching for a new CAO since the departure of John Corbett a year ago following a run-in with Jeffrey over the 2015 budget document.