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Mark Koch, the director of community services at the District of Lake Country, has been elected president of the Local Government Management Association of BC board of directors.
Raised in South Africa, Koch moved to Canada to attend university in Vancouver. He later moved to Toronto to earn a Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies. He also recently earned a second Master’s Degree in Municipal Leadership.
Koch, who last year sat as the organization’s vice-president, takes over for previous president Patti Bridal, the deputy CAO for the City of Vernon.
Koch was elected at the LGMA’s annual general meeting last week, and will work alongside 12 other members of the board of directors.
This year he will be joined by a newcomer to the board, also from the Okanagan Valley, Corrie Griffiths.
Griffiths is the director of economic development at the Region District of the Central Okanagan.
The LGMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to “promoting professional management and leadership excellence in local government.”
As Bridal wrote in the organization’s 2017 Annual Report, the organization focuses on “ensuring that local government professionals have the tools and skills to assist them to be the best they can be in the rapidly changing environment that we all work in.”
Those changes, she said, are “political, social, technical, and legislative.”
“The LGMA remains committed to assisting both the new generation of managers and those with deep experience with the development of new tools and programs to address these challenges,” she wrote.
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