{"id":365126,"date":"2025-09-24T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=365126"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:21:20","slug":"ceos-contract-extended-to-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/09\/24\/ceos-contract-extended-to-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO&#8217;s Contract Extended To 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234302\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mark-pitt-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234302\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mark-pitt-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mark-pitt-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mark-pitt-200-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Burnett Regional Council CEO Mark Pitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>September 24, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Burnett Regional Council has renewed the contract of CEO Mark Pitt for another four years.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors endorsed the extension of Mr Pitt&#8217;s contract &#8211; from July 1, 2026, to July 3, 2030 &#8211; at the September 17 Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pitt PSM has been the CEO of the South Burnett Regional Council since June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He has more than 22 years&#8217; experience in CEO positions and in 2019 was recognised in the Queen&#8217;s Birthday honours with the Public Service Medal for his services to the community and local government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am really pleased that firstly our CEO, Mark Pitt, was keen to renew his contract and that secondly it was a unanimous decision of Council to extend Mark\u2019s contract for another four years,&#8221; Mayor Kathy Duff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that this is a very important decision for our Council because to be successful we need to have both the operational arm and the elected representatives all working together and I believe that we have successfully achieved that over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision will help to create stability and continuity not only for our Council but for our whole region. I think this is an exciting time as we move forward with an experienced team, strong leadership and a clear vision for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Pitt is the fifth CEO to serve at the SBRC since council amalgamations in 2008, and the first to have his contract extended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acting CEO Shane Gray steered council through the amalgamation process.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gray was succeeded by Tony Hayward (2008-2011), Ken McLoughlin (2011-2014) and Gary Wall (2014-2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Burnett Regional Council has renewed the contract of CEO Mark Pitt for another four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":234303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[1131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CEO&#039;s Contract Extended To 2030 - 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