By Pepper Parr
February 16th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
The next City Manager. Good choice that could turn out to be a great choice.
Mayor Marianne Meed Ward, along with Burlington City Council, is pleased to announce Hassaan Basit will be joining the City of Burlington team as its next City Manager. Mr. Basit will begin his role on April 22, 2024.
Hassaan Basit has a proven track record of transforming organizations to deliver results. As CEO of Conservation Halton, he built a high performing team with an outstanding culture, reduced permit times, improved processes, brought in performance metrics and turned around relationships with the development industry, experience which will all be essential to meeting our housing pledge of enabling 29,000 homes to be built by 2031.
Additionally, he and his team are responsible for managing critical flood water infrastructure, approving development permits under the Conservation Authorities Act, carrying out environmental restoration and forest management, delivering programming to 1.5 million annual customers, and running parks, while focusing on sustainability, climate change adaptation and mitigation – key priorities outlined in the City’s recently approved four-year work plan, Vision to Focus.
He has also developed extensive relationships with all levels of government and Halton Region, including being selected by the provincial government as the chair of the Province’s Conservation Authority Working Group.
That’s the Official media release – nothing wrong with the content. Hassaan Basit has done a marvellous job running the Conservation Authority.
There is a deeper story that we will get to later in the day.
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Far be it from me to dispute Mr. Basit’s qualifications. They appear to be exceptional even given his heavily regulated portfolio and the performance of Halton Region on climate change and sustainable development. As a member of the property development industry, I am encouraged by the single-minded focus that the City has established with its aggressive commitments to new housing. In this regard, Mr. Basit is a wonderful choice and one that reflects the inclusion and diversity of our times. Well done!!
Not only that but on the ‘Conservation Halton’ website he lists the salaries and benefit totals of his staff, wonder if he’ll do the same at COB?