Making sure municipal administration doesn’t burn out and having better representation in the Keystone Planning District are Bill Courtice’s main goals in his bid for RM of Cornwallis reeve.

Courtice, who served as reeve between 2018 and 2022, said staff burnout in the office was a big problem when he was in office. Staff retired and new employees couldn’t be trained because of the COVID-19 pandemic and because remaining staff didn’t have the time to spare, he said.

While more staff has since been hired, making sure the rural municipality can run smoothly with a healthy number of staff is important.

“If you don’t have enough staff to deal with certain situations, they get burnt out,” Courtice said on Wednesday. “It gets put on the back burner, or there might not be anybody there to deal

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