City Departments
City Manager Ron Mattiussi provides leadership and coordination to all divisions to ensure City operations provide exceptional customer service to the citizens of Kelowna. City operations are delivered by three divisions.
Community Services
Led by General Manager John Vos, this division serves the citizens of Kelowna by providing green parks, safe streets and clean drinking water and keeps our community healthy by providing recreation and cultural programming. It manages our civic facilities, land and property, and leads the development of those properties.
To support our City's growth, the division delivers development services and building inspections and will lead all new capital projects for the City. This division also works with other government services to coordinate the delivery of regional services, such as transit and waste mangement.
Services are delivered by five departments:
Community Sustainability
Led by General Manager Jim Paterson, this division ensures that sustainability is paramount in our planning, our policy direction and our infrastructure investment. The division leads long term planning for the City, including economic, cultural, environmental and social planning.
The division manages the physical assets of the city, including all buildings, facilities, parks and utility infrastructure, and plans for their replacement and upgrades. The division also leads the development of our town centres well as our suburban areas and coordinates the City’s roles and responsibilities in regional and valley-wide initiatives such as transit service and environmental initiatives.
Services are delivered by three departments:
Corporate Sustainability
Led by General Manager Paul Macklem, this division provides a wide variety of support services for City operations as well as the supporting services needed by our community: an international airport, and fire and police services. The division also provides legislative support to City Council and bylaw enforcement.
This division helps all departments with staffing needs, communications and marketing, budgeting and accounting, and computer systems and information technology. The division also provides administrative support to the Kelowna RCMP.
Services are delivered by six departments: