Brian Bigger
| Brian Bigger | |
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| Mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario | |
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Assumed office December 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Marianne Matichuk |
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| Born | 1958 Sudbury, Ontario |
| Occupation | accountant, auditor |
Brian Bigger is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario in the city's 2014 municipal election.
Born and raised in Sudbury, Bigger attended high school at St. Charles College, and studied marketing at Cambrian College and commerce at Laurentian University. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant, and worked as an accountant and auditor for Sears Canada and the Regional Municipality of Halton until he was appointed to a three-year term as the city of Greater Sudbury's auditor general in 2009.
As auditor general, he identified significant waste in the city's management of road maintenance, including scheduling inefficiencies and overbilling by outside contractors, as well as uncovering an illegal practice of paid shift trading taking place among employees of Greater Sudbury Transit.
In 2011, Greater Sudbury City Council held an in camera meeting about whether to renew Bigger's contract for a second three-year term; during the meetings, they took the unusual step of deciding to hire an outside auditor to audit Bigger's office. Bigger's contract was renewed, but several citizens of the city filed a complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman about the closed-door meetings. Ombudsman André Marin 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. As a result of Marin's report, city council voted to reject any oversight from the ombudsman's office.
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