The Town of Greater Napanee is making some administrative changes to create additional capacity within the organization and be more efficient.
Council endorsed the restructuring changes brought forth by the Chief Administrative Officer at Tuesday’s meeting.
Effective October 9, the following changes have been implemented:
- The creation of a director of Building & Planning position and a director of Corporate Capital Planning, Fleet, and Facilities, to be funded by the existing salaries of the former general managers of Infrastructure and Community and Corporate Services. The two positions of retiring general managers are not being replaced. Infrastructure will be merged with Growth and Development and will be overseen by a single general manager.
- Reprioritizing resources from the organization’s Community Economic Development function to a Procurement and Government Grants function including the transfer of position and salary dollars from one position to the other.
- Changing the mandate of Parks and Facilities to Parks, Recreation, and Culture, elevating the manager level to a director level, and ensuring they have a seat at the senior leadership table.
- Changing the reporting structure of the Information Technology department, which will report to the general manager of finance.
- Transitioning the role of Administrative Coordinator/CEMC in the Fire Department to a Compliance Officer in Human Resources.
- Moving Communications into Executive Services and having the function report directly to the CAO.
The changes are expected to save the municipality $52,000 per year.
While the organization is undergoing administrative restructuring, the impact on services offered by the Town is anticipated to be minimal.
