Ex-Vaughan top executives help run tiny cottage country municipality
Clayton Harris, Barb Cribbett turn up in Whitestone Township

YorkRegion.com
Oct. 30, 2017
Tim Kelly

The tiny Township of Whitestone, Ont., is fast becoming overrun with former City of Vaughan senior staff.

Ex-Vaughan chief administrative officers Clayton Harris and Barbara Cribbett have been hired on an interim basis recently by the township, population 916, to be the CAO (Harris) and treasurer (Cribbett).

The hirings took place after Whitestone's CAO/treasurer Tammy Wylie resigned.

The decision was made at a closed session of Whitestone's council on Oct. 25.

Harris, who lives in Parry Sound, will also continue in his current job as Parry Sound economic development officer. Cribbett lives in Whitestone.

Harris left Vaughan abruptly in 2013 when it was announced by council that he had retired without notice. He was paid two years' severance. He has since held several other positions in municipal government.

Cribbett, who was commissioner of finance in Vaughan when Harris left, succeeded him as CAO until she retired in 2015.

Whitestone is located about 40 kilometres northeast of Parry Sound in the heart of cottage country.