A shake-up affecting senior staff at the Dunedin City Council should improve efficiency, chief executive Sandy Graham says.
"I want our focus to be on delivery — on getting stuff done for our community — and this restructure is a first step in achieving that," Ms Graham said.
Three of the roles would be corporate and quality general manager; customer and regulatory general manager; and manahautu, or Maori partnerships and policy general manager.
The council did not say what the other roles were, nor state the positions disestablished.
Gavin Logie has been appointed chief financial officer, after filling the position for several months in an acting capacity.
Ms Graham said the new structure was designed to streamline the organisation’s leadership and improve efficiency.
The council had an emphasis on "functional teams" within the organisation, as well as improving internal processes.
Ms Graham did not clarify what was meant by functional teams.
The council was working through discussions with staff affected by the restructure, which could include them staying with the organisation in other roles where possible, she said.
The council was in the process of moving to the new structure.
Dunedin firm Fluid Recruitment was being used to help the council fill the positions.
Related Stories
Comments
I think the problem is systemic, not just upper management, but from the top down with an agenda not in keeping with what the ratepayers wanted at election time.
"Ms Graham said the new structure was designed to streamline the organisation’s leadership" the only way to do that would be not to vote for someone who has no idea how to run a city, refuses to listen to the ratepayers and pushes through their own (green) ideology's.
I hope this isn't being used as another step to entrench idiotic greens thinking in DCC management, but somehow I think it proobably will prove to be the result.
And speaking of corporate jargon, "functional teams" all too often just winds up being a bunch of little fiefdoms working in isolation from other functional teams. The last thing Dunedin ratepayers need is more waste and mistakes from this mob.