GOSFORD COUNCIL RESTRUCTURES The much anticipated organisational restructure of Gosford Council was approved at Council’s February 26 The new structure involves the dissolution of 36 positions, creation of 19 new positions and rationalisation of six directorates into four departments to reflect council’s new focus areas and streamline services to the community. The restructure is designed to help create a long term sustainable future for council and increase customer satisfaction levels. In his report to council recommending the changes, General Manager, Paul Anderson said that Councils current structure (with the exception of major tweaking in 2013) has been in place for 9 years. During this time significant advances in technology and community expectations have occurred. This has lead to the necessity to make rapid radical change and broad sweeping step changes rather than a more gentle transitional change over a number of years. This report recommends Council adopt a new organisation structure and allow the General Manager to implement the structure with progress reports to Council on its implementation. The new structure focuses around three major principles: 1. Split operational and strategic functions; 2. Improve customer’s ability and experience in dealing with council; and 3. Reduce council’s external business costs to improve competitiveness and provide greater resources to conduct works. Implementation of the new structure will now commence with a recruitment process for all newly created directors, managers and associated positions.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 06:05:00 +0000
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