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Toronto City Council · 2025-03-26 · 2025.CC28.5

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Recruitment for the Deputy City Manager, Community and Social Services

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2025-03-26 · Toronto City Council · amended

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City Council on March 26 and 27, 2025, adopted the following: 1. City Council appoint Kate Bassil to the position of Deputy City Manager, Community and Emergency Services for the City of Toronto, with such appointment to be effective April 22, 2025, subject to written acceptance of the terms and conditions of a contract of employment offered by the City. 2. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to take the necessary action to give effect to City Council's decision, including the introduction in City Council of the necessary bill to appoint Kate Bassil as Deputy City Manager, Community and Emergency Services.

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3. City Council authorize the public release of the Curriculum Vitae Summary of Kate Bassil in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (March 19, 2025) from the City Manager upon City Council's approval of the appointment. 4. City Council appoint Denise Andrea Campbell to the position of Deputy City Manager, Community Development and Social Services for the City of Toronto, with such appointment to be effective April 22, 2025, subject to written acceptance of the terms and conditions of a contract of employment offered by the City. 5. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to take the necessary action to give effect to City Council's decision, including the introduction in City Council of the necessary bill to appoint Denise Andrea Campbell as Deputy City Manager, Community Development and Social Services. 6. City Council authorize the public release of the Curriculum Vitae Summary of Denise Andrea Campbell in Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (March 19, 2025) from the City Manager upon City Council's approval of the appointment. The following curriculum vitae summary for Kate Bassil is now public: EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2013 - Present City of Toronto Chief of Staff, City Manager's Office (2022 - Present) Director, Strategic Policy and Planning, Deputy City Manager's Office (2022) Director, Executive Administration, City Manager's Office (2020 - 2022) Associate Director, Strategy and Preventive Health, Toronto Public Health (2017 - 2020) Acting Director, Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health (2017) Manager, Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health (2013 - 2017) 2010 - 2013 Mount Sinai Hospital, Senior Epidemiologist, Department of Pediatrics 2008 - 2010 Simon Fraser University Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Doctor of Philosophy, Epidemiology (Environment and Health), Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto) Master of Sciences, Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto) Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Biological Sciences (Zoology), University of Oxford BOARD AND VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT Adjunct Appointment, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (2010-2023) The following curriculum vitae summary for Denise Andrea Campbell is now public: EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2004 - Present City of Toronto Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration (2019 - Present) Director, Social Policy, Analysis and Research, Social Development, Finance and Administration (2014-2018) Director, Community Resources, Social Development, Finance and Administration (2009-2014) Manager, Community Development (2006-2008) Community Development Officer (2005-2006) Community Development Worker (2004-2005) 1998 - 2004 African Union, JW McConnell Foundation, D-Code Program Director, The Students Commission EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Master of Voluntary Sector Management, McGill University Bachelor of Political Science (Honours), University of Toronto, University of Ottawa HONOURS AND AWARDS Lieutenant Governor's Medal of Distinction in Public Administration (2024) Harry Jerome Award - Professional Excellence (2024) Toronto Life's 50 Most Influential People (2021) Herstory in Black Top 100 (2017) Women Who Inspire Us (2016) Black in Canada (2010) Who's Who in Black Canada (2002) Black Canadians in History Poster and Education Curriculum (2001) Women In Canadian History Poster and Curriculum (2000)

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The purpose of this report is to advise that the City Manager will be submitting a report with an update on the recruitment for the Deputy City Manager, Community and Social Services position, to City Council before its meeting on March 26, 27 and 28, 2025.

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The City Manager recommends that: 1. City Council receive this report for information.

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