Chief Financial Officer Selected for County
Gary Burton, a deputy director of finance and administration for the Orange County Transportation Authority, was selected new chief financial officer for the county of Orange on Wednesday.
Burton, 50, also was a director of finance and controller for the South Coast Air Quality Management District for 13 years, and was previously an accountant and auditor for the county for nearly seven years in the 1970s.
Burton, who was out of town Wednesday, will receive $115,000 a year.
“I am very excited to bring Gary on board as part of our team,” said the county’s chief executive officer, Jan Mittermeier.
She said Burton’s experience will help reshape county government into a more “responsive, efficient organization.”
Burton is the fourth of five assistants hired by Mittermeier to help begin a restructuring plan that was approved by the Board of Supervisors in June.
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