The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is looking for a new chief executive officer to work in its new Regina office.
The organization announced March 19 that Craig Douglas, who had been CEO since 2012, was no longer employed by the SCA.
It also said the office would move from Saskatoon to Regina by the end of June.
Board chair Bill Jameson said the association had been considering a move to Regina for more than a year.
The board passed a motion to move the office during an in-camera session at a meeting last August.
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Jameson said the association needs to be closer to government.
“I think we’d have a better relationship,” he said.
“Quite frankly, our relationship with government has deteriorated in the last year or so, couple years, and we want to improve that. We have been in discussion with government, and they want to improve it too, so this is one of the steps we’ve taken to try and fix that.”
Jameson returned to the board in January after a two year absence and said he wasn’t sure why communication between the association and the provincial government has failed at times.
“We’ve made the decision and we’re moving on,” he said.
He also said Douglas’s leaving was “mostly a function of the office move, put it that way.”
Patty Englund, who was serving as policy analyst, is now interim CEO. Jameson said some of the staff were considering whether they could or would move to Regina, but it was too soon to say.
The association is a development commission under the provincial Agri-Food Act and is charged with developing and promoting the industry by collecting and distributing the voluntary levies that producers pay when they sell cattle.
All producers who pay a checkoff are members of the organization unless they have requested refunds.
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