The City of Estevan is on the hunt for a new leisure services division manager. Again.
It was announced Wednesday that Paul M. Ennis had resigned from the position after just two days on the job. Ennis began work with the City March 21 and was introduced as the new leisure services manager later that evening during a regular meeting of city council.
However, by Wednesday the City was informing local media that Ennis was no longer in its employ after he resigned.
The reasons behind Ennis' hasty departure are unclear but in a phone call to The Mercury on Friday, Ennis indicated it might have had something to do with a short and apparently troubled stint with the City of Dauphin.
Regardless, the City of Estevan is saying little about Ennis' decision other than that he resigned.
"It just wasn't going to work out," said Mayor Gary St. Onge in an interview with The Mercury Friday.
Prior to Ennis' brief tenure, the City had been without a leisure services manager since late 2010 when Helen Fornwald resigned and took over as the new safety co-ordinator. City manager Jim Puffalt had been the acting leisure manager in the interim and will again take over that job until a replacement is found.
St. Onge said the City plans to be proactive in their search and will hire a headhunting service to find them both a leisure services manager and a new public works manager to replace Owen Green who resigned earlier this month.
"We haven't had a whole lot of applications for that either," said St. Onge "What I thought, all along, that there would be a lot of people in communities smaller than Estevan that would just jump at the opportunity. I don't know if people just don't have the incentive or are happy where they are. It's a great opportunity and I think the money is pretty good."
