One local charity CEO predicts Calgary's mayor-elect would be a good "consensus-builder" on what will be a very rookie-centered council.

Calgary’s mayor-elect Jeromy Farkas would likely be a good listener, a workaholic and have the ability to bring a mostly new-look council together, predict two of his recent colleagues.

Before his second attempt at running for mayor this year, Farkas served as CEO of the Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation.

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The foundation’s current acting CEO, Georg Passrath, said he met Farkas at a Trans-Canada Trail AGM in 2023.

Passrath said he hired Farkas, originally as the foundation’s board chair, that October, after Farkas suggested he was interested in the role.

While Passrath was aware of Farkas’s fundraising hike along the Pacific Crest Tra

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