DCC Organisational Restructure

As part of a restructure of the Council's executive management, a voluntary redundancy option has been taken by the General Manager, Community Life, Graeme Hall.

The decision to make this further reduction at the executive level follows a similar recent decision affecting the General Manager Customer Services. The voluntary redundancy follows constructive discussions with Graeme and he leaves with the Council’s best wishes.

Graeme has made a significant contribution to the DCC over the last decade – leading projects like the Otago Settlers Museum, the Chinese Garden and the Logan Park development.

Business activities previously managed by Graeme are to be distributed between Sue Bidrose as General Manager City Strategy and Development and Tony Avery in the new position General Manager Operations. Athol Stephens will adopt a revised Finance and Resources directorate.

The organisation needs to move forward with an organisational structure that reduces costs and strengthens its ability to cut across organisational silos. We are doing this by structuring in a way that co-locates back office functions; key place-shaping functions – city strategy, planning, economic development and culture; and community-facing front-line services.

I reflected carefully on the decision to reduce the number of General Managers from five to three. My conclusion is that this is the correct way forward for an organisation that is moving into savings mode, and sets the tone for the wider organisation as we begin to look at the design of services.

Paul Orders
Chief Executive
Dunedin City Council