The retirement of the Strategic Director for Corporate Resources, and the subsequent deletion of the post, presents an opportunity to introduce a Deputy Chief Executive post. The Leadership Group will remain a five officer Group for the next 18-24 months.
Current Strategic Director for Learning and Partnerships, Eifion Evans, has been appointed Deputy Chief Executive.
The present Head of Legal, Human Resources and Democratic Services, who also acts as the Council’s Monitoring Officer, is due to vacate the role. This post will be removed without any redistribution of work to any other Head of Service, reducing the number of Heads of Service from 10 to 9.
Elin Prysor, who currently works as a Solicitor for the Council, has been appointed as Monitoring Officer. She will start in her new role in September.
An immediate saving of £115,000 will be made by the deletion of a Head of Service post and further restructuring.
Leader of the Council, Councillor Ellen ap Gwynn, said: “This restructuring will be of great benefit to the Council to better position itself to enable the identification of further £24 million savings over the next few years. By September 2015, the Council will have reduced the number of its Senior Management by 48% since April 2007. Moving forward, the Council is committed to ensuring that the most efficient management structure possible is operational in order to secure the best value for the county’s taxpayers in a period of heightened financial pressures. I congratulate Eifion and Elin on their appointments, and look forward to working with them in their new roles in the Council.”
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