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Christchurch City Council Executive Director Dawn Baxendale says the focus of the new executive team would be to deliver on the council’s ambitions in the 2021 long-term plan.
Five jobs will be eliminated under a restructuring at Christchurch City Hall.
The changes, announced Thursday, are expected to save between $ 600,000 and $ 700,000 a year.
The council’s executive director, Dawn Baxendale, first proposed changes in early November.
As part of the changes, the executive leadership team has been reduced from eight roles to five, with three general manager roles destabilized.
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A new Deputy Executive Director position has also been created dealing with strategic policy and performance.
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The restructuring will save between $ 600,000 and $ 700,000 per year.
The restructuring involves the elimination of 13 posts and the creation of eight.
A council spokesperson said that some of the roles that will disappear are support roles, such as executive assistants.
Affected staff will now be able to reapply for the new roles.
Baxendale said the council needed a structure that would allow it to “respond to the challenges we face as an organization at this stage of the city’s regeneration.”
Earlier this year, Covid-19 was forecast to leave a $ 90 million hole in the council’s books.
The new executive leadership team structure:
- Executive Director (Dawn Baxendale).
- Executive Deputy Director of Strategic Policy and Performance.
- General Manager of Resources, also CFO.
- General Director of Citizens and Community (Mary Richardson).
- General manager of infrastructure, planning and regulatory services of the city.
