To consider the submitted report on the restructuring of Council’s Commissioner and Chief Executive structure to ensure Torbay Council has highly skilled political and managerial leaders to lead Torbay Council through the public sector recession and respond to the Government’s localism agenda with innovative, lower cost solutions.

The Council received a report on the outcome of the restructuring of the Councils Chief Executive and Commissioners.

It was proposed by Councillor Pritchard and seconded by Councillor Hernandez:

(i)         that the Council maintains the role of full time Chief Executive;

(ii)        that the Council maintains the role of Director of Children’s Services;

(iii)       that the three current Commissioner posts be deleted from the structure;

(iv)       that a Director of Adult Services (DAS), Part time (0.6 FTE) post be created; and

(v)        that a Director of Place and Resources, full time post be created (see Appendix 1 of the submitted report for structure charts).

On being put to the vote, the motion was declared carried (unanimous).

(Note:  prior to consideration of Minute 321, Caroline Taylor and Clare Tanner declared personal interests as post-holders of positions which could potentially be affected if the proposals were approved.)