All change in council reshuffle as its highest earners accept redundancy

MONEY-saving restructuring measures at a Yorkshire council have led to two of the authority's highest earning officers taking voluntary redundancy.

The review of York Council focused on the top tier of managers and proposals were drawn up to reduce the number of directors by a third, from six to four.

Up to 34 managerial jobs across the council – a tenth of the total – will also go in a move which is projected to save between 1.2m and 1.6m a year.

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The directors are currently on wages of between 88,080 and 102,700, although a new salary structure has yet to be finalised.

The council yesterday announced who will be leading the four new directorates and confirmed that two senior officers, Heather Rice and Bill Hodson, had agreed to step down.

Mr Hodson, director of housing and adult social services, and Mrs Rice, director of people and improvements, accepted voluntary redundancy.

The four directors will take up their new positions on April 1. Until then, they will be director designates and will oversee plans for future developments.

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Sally Burns has been named as director of communities and neighbourhoods, Pete Dwyer has been appointed as director of adults, children and education, and Ian Floyd is director of customer and business support.

Bill Woolley will continue in his role as director of city strategy because of the similarity between his current post and the structure of the new city strategy directorate.

The overhaul is part of the More for York programme, which aims to cut 15m from council expenditure during the next three years.

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