Calgary council completes Water Utility Oversight Board with four new appointments

Four appointments

Calgary city council announced on Oct 23 the appointment of Kate Chisholm, Corey Goulet, Edward McCauley and Kim Sturgess, who join founding chair Stephen Stanley to form the five-member Water Utility Oversight Board, a milestone in independent oversight of the water utility.

Response to feeder main break

The board was created on the recommendation of the Bearspaw South Feedermain independent review panel, in response to the 2024 Bearspaw south feeder main break; members were selected on a skills basis through an external recruitment firm.

Members' backgrounds

Chisholm is a corporate director and lawyer who held senior roles at Capital Power, EPCOR and AESO; Goulet is a senior energy-infrastructure executive and mechanical engineer who worked at Trans Mountain, TC Energy and Kiewit; McCauley is an environmental scientist who has been president of the University of Calgary since 2019; Sturgess is an engineer and founder and former CEO of WaterSMART Solutions with more than 20 years of Alberta water-management experience. The board will complete onboarding and hold its first meeting later this year.