NVD municipal clerk steps down for new job

I QNCE asked Donna Ken- ny whether she ever saw her home in daylight.

By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer

The conversation took — place after a six-hour North Vancouver District Council meeting.

She laughed at the question, which says much about her char- acter, and confessed to ocea- sionally giving 355 West Queens Rd., the address of North Van- couver District hall, as her own,

Until recently Kenny worked day, and oftentimes night, at the hall as North Vancouver District's deputy municipal clerk.

A target of “corporation” raiders, Kenny now holds the same tide for Surrey municipality.

North Vancouver District's municipal manager Mel Palmer described Kenny as, ‘ta very com- petent person, a very willing per- son and very knowledgeable in her job. Surrey’s gain is ovr Joss."

NORTH Vancouver District deputy municipal clerk Donna Kenny ... “People becoming more and more aware."

Kenny first worked for the district in 1955, when she started as the secretary to the assessor be- fore the days of the B.C. Assess- ment Authority.

In the next seven years Kenny typed her way through the municipal hierarchy, working for the municipal clerk and solicitor

as well as the reeve and comp- troller (mayor and manazer).

Kenny took time out fo raise a family (She now has two sony in their 20s) before returning ito district, hall as assistant to the municipal clerk six years ago.

She was promoted to deputy municipal clerk atier cramming 15 credit, courses into three years of night school to obtain her business certificate in public administra- tion,

Kenny rarely talks in’ the first person, preferring to emphasize the teamwork nature of the job.

The municipal clerk is the department head and as such takes final responsibility, but as the deputy clerk Kenny has to be able to fill those shoes if called upon to do so.

Kenny acknowledges that now that her work load is more onerous it: will probably take her 2% years to complete the nest eight courses from the University of Victoria.

About that work load: Is Tues- day any easier after a 15 or 16-

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