Issue - meetings

(Leader) To consider the attached restricted report.

Mover: Councillor C Whitbread, Leader of Council

Councillor C Whitbread presented a report on the Implementation of People Strategy  and the Strategic Director Posts.

RESOLVED:

(1)        That the Council’s current Management Board of one Chief Executive and four Service Directors be replaced by a new arrangement comprising of one Chief Executive and two Strategic Directors;

(2)        That the posts of Director of Resources (vacant), Director of Governance (vacant), Director of Neighbourhoods and Director of Communities be deleted from the Council’s Establishment;

(3)        That the requirement for voluntary severance on the terms contained within the report be agreed for the existing post holders of Director of Neighbourhoods and Director of Communities;

(4)        That the leaving date for the Director of Communities be mutually agreed between the post holder and the Head of Paid Service on the basis that sufficient senior management capacity be retained until the appointment of any new Strategic Directors;

(5)        That the role of Acting Chief Executive be continued to be undertaken by the Director of Neighbourhoods, whose substantive post Director of Neighbourhoods would be deleted, as per the decision of Full Council on the 22 February 2018; and

(6)        That, in order to better reflect the support needs of the revised Management Board Structure, the number of Executive Assistant roles be reduced from five to one, following the normal consultation arrangements of the Council and within the existing Redundancy  Policy.