Decision details

To propose changes to the officer leadership structure of the Council.

To note that as part of the budget process for financial year 2016/17, a commitment was made to further reduce leadership costs by £320,000 in a full year. The report sets the ground for £290,000 of this target to be achieved. However, following compilation of the report, the savings target has been revised to achieve a saving of £278,000.

We resolved:

(i)             to agreed the changes set out in the body of the report and captured more fully at Appendix 1.

(ii)          to authorise the Chief Executive to proceed with management action necessary to give effect to these changes in keeping with approved Council employment policies.

(iii)         to authorise the Chief Executive licence to make some modest alignment changes to recognise the good points that have been raised by colleagues, which improve the resilience of the structure at no additional cost.