Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Decision made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
This report will provide details of the
outcome of the second stage of the consultation process on the
Council's reorganisation process.
121/2005 The Cabinet supported the following
proposals:
A service manager post of Safer Communities - Strategy be
established covering Trading Standards, Emergency Planning,
Community Safety Strategy and Enforcement Strategy.
A service manager post of Safer Communities - Operations be
established covering Environmental Health and all the street teams,
including the Community Safety Team and the Litter Enforcement
Officers.
A new service manager post be established to take an overview of
enforcement, located in Finance and Corporate Services.
The 3 posts set out above replace the posts of Community Safety and
Wardens, Head of Environmental Health and Head of Trading Standards
and Emergency Planning.
Arts be merged with Libraries, providing a further service manager
saving.
Bereavement Services moves to the Social Care division.
Housing Strategy stays with Planning.
Customer First and First Point of Contact move to the Chief
Executive's.
The travellers function be located with Enforcement in Finance and
Corporate Services.
Development Control and Building Control be divided (the creation
of this additional service manager post to be funded through a
reorganisation of the teams below).
122/2005 The Cabinet endorsed the final structure, as amended by
decision no. 121/2005 for implementation.
To ensure that an effective management
structure is put in place to ensure delivery of high quality
services to Medway's customers.
Publication date: 07/06/2005
Date of decision: 07/06/2005
Decided at meeting: 07/06/2005 - Cabinet
Effective from: 16/06/2005
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