Brian Bigger | |
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 Bigger in 2014 | |
| Mayor of Greater Sudbury | |
| In office December 1, 2014 –November 15, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Marianne Matichuk |
| Succeeded by | Paul Lefebvre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1958 (age 64–65) Sudbury,Ontario,Canada |
| Occupation | Accountant,auditor |
Brian Bigger is a Canadian politician who served as the mayor of Greater Sudbury from 2014 to 2022. He was elected in the city's 2014 municipal election. [1] Prior to serving as mayor,Bigger served as the first Auditor General for the city.
Born and raised in Sudbury,Bigger attended high school at St. Charles College, [2] and studied marketing at Cambrian College and commerce at Laurentian University. [2] He is a Chartered Professional Accountant, [2] and worked as an accountant and auditor for Sears Canada and the Regional Municipality of Halton [3] until he was appointed to a three-year term as the city of Greater Sudbury's auditor general in 2009. [4]
As auditor general,he identified significant waste in the city's management of road maintenance,including scheduling inefficiencies and overbilling by outside contractors, [4] as well as uncovering an illegal practice of paid shift trading taking place among employees of Greater Sudbury Transit. [4]
In 2011,Greater Sudbury City Council held an in camera meeting about whether to renew Bigger's contract for a second three-year term; [5] during the meetings,they took the unusual step of deciding to hire an outside auditor to audit Bigger's office. [6] Bigger's contract was renewed,but several citizens of the city filed a complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman about the closed-door meetings. [6] Ombudsman AndréMarin investigated the matter,ultimately finding that council was within its right to hold a closed meeting as it was a personnel matter involving a city employee,but criticized many of the councillors in his final report for refusing to cooperate with his investigation. [6] As a result of Marin's report,city council voted to reject any oversight from the ombudsman's office. [6]
Bigger stated that by summer 2014,he was beginning to consider running for mayor to combat the obstruction he had faced in his role as auditor. [2] In August,he requested a leave of absence from his job as auditor to launch a campaign for mayor. [3] The request was granted. [3] However,council then faced a further controversy when,rather than hiring or contracting a temporary auditor general to continue audit operations during Bigger's leave of absence,it simply suspended the office and reassigned Bigger's assistant,senior auditor Vasu Balakrishnan,to the finance department. [7]
Bigger's campaign for mayor was based on a platform of openness,transparency and accountability. [8] His campaign promises included identifying budget savings in order to deliver a zero property tax increase in his first year as mayor, [8] reinstating the provincial ombudsman as the investigator of complaints about council activities, [8] and implementing new ethics guidelines for city councillors and staff modelled on the Vaughan Accord implemented by Vaughan mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua in 2011. [9]
On election day,Bigger garnered 46 per cent of the vote. [8]
He was reelected to a second term in the 2018 municipal election,the first mayor to be re-elected to a second term in office since the municipal amalgamation of 2001. [10]
In October 2022,he withdrew from the 2022 Greater Sudbury municipal election several weeks after having registered as a candidate,citing the need to spend more time with his family due to the declining health of his mother. [11]
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