Chief financial officer at Ottawa’s public school board resigns

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board head office.

The chief financial officer at Ottawa’s public-school board has resigned.

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) confirmed to CTV News Ottawa Randy Gerrior resigned from his position for “personal reasons.”

“We appreciate Randy’s contributions and wish him all the best in his future endeavours,” an OCDSB spokesperson said.

Gerrior was the associate director of business operations and the chief financial officer at the OCDSB from Nov. 2022 to September 2025.

In the spring, Gerrior warned OCDSB trustees that “tough decisions” would have to be made to balance the budget and avoid a deficit for a fifth straight year.

“I hear a lot out of the trustees, ‘we’ll cut more out of admin, we’ll cut more out of other places.’ We’ve been doing that,” Gerrior said during an OCDSB board meeting in May. “We almost didn’t make payroll at one point because of cuts that we’ve made to admin staff over the years.”

Gerrior stepped down from Ottawa’s largest school board as it remains under provincial supervision.

The Ontario government appointed Robert Plamondon as supervisor of the OCDSB in June after the board posted four straight deficit budgets, including a projected $9.2 million deficit last school year.

The $1.2 billion OCDSB budget for the 2025-26 school year included $18 million in spending cuts. The plan, which eliminated 135 positions, includes spending reductions of $4.98 million for special education, $5.97 million in administration spending and $4.22 million in reductions on instruction.