The Leader of the Isle of Wight Council, Lora Peacey-Wilcox, has announced a reshuffle of the Council’s Cabinet.
Councillor Peacey-Wilcox said:
“In carrying out this reshuffle, I am mindful of the fact that the whole Council is going through a process of reorganisation and also of the financial situation we are in at the moment. As such, I am moving forward with a plan that has been under consideration for some time to both reduce the number of Cabinet members (savings achieved).
Article continues below this advertisement “The financial portfolio will now be dealt with by a finance committee, which will be chaired by Councillor Jonathan Bacon, but which will consist of all Cabinet members, all of whom will take responsibility for this essential area.”
The revised Cabinet roles are as follows:
Lora Peacey-Wilcox – Leader, with responsibility for strategic oversight and external partnerships.
Ian Stephens – Adult services and housing, including public health and homelessness.
Debbie Andre – Children’s services, including education and attainment and lifelong skills.
Phil Jordan – Transport and infrastructure, including highways and transport strategy.
Karen Lucioni – Regulatory services and waste, including Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Police and Fire services.
Julie Jones Evans – Economy, culture and leisure, including heritage and regeneration.
Jonathan Bacon – Climate change, environment and biosphere and chair of finance committee.
Paul Fuller – Planning, including coastal protection and flooding.
What a motley crew of horrors, Bacon and Jordon should go 100%, nothing but trouble and so damn corrupt and rude they forget what job they should actually should be doing. The whole council should be declared “unfit for purpose” wasting money on the not so floating bridge, and then hiding the settlement…… corrupt beyond belief.
Just like pigs round a trough, how about culling the expensive admin posts and saving taxpayers money.
As such, I am moving forward with a plan that has been under consideration for some time to both reduce the number of Cabinet members (savings achieved).
you forgot the last part lora – “(savings achieved) and passed back to the taxpayers in the form of council tax cuts”
oh, of course it wasn’t forgotten – you never intended to pass those savings back did you.
reshuffle or just rearranging those titanic deck chairs
Why not reshuffle the whole lot of them out the door and save us all thousands in council tax. They don’t ever seem to do anything that can be improved or gained by the public, in fact the make it even more difficult or worse. I.E. the proposed alterations to Ryde high street. If it is all precinct, how are vehicles going to get to the parking in Victoria Street, both in road and car parks and on route to Newport via Queens Road. All big ideas with no consideration or care for those who it will put out. How will residents get to their homes in Victoria Street?
All are a total waste of money.
A bunch of useless individuals who have no idea what they are doing.
Doesn’t matter which way you shuffle them ,they are still the same dipsticks….
All out for theirselves and glory !!!
Beggar the plebs…..
Yeah, that reshuffle will really work Perera. Try transferring all your incompetent management to the dole queue followed by yourself. The money saved can be put towards actual services the poor paying mugs who pay your overpriced Council tax can actually access. County Hall, full of managers with nothing to manage. Services either cut or contracted out.
You can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig
Reshuffle??? More like Moving deck chairs on the titanic .. hopeless administration..
Nothing to do with the fact that her Alliance Group is falling apart! Four members including a cabinet member deserted her Group at the last council meeting. Perhaps that was planned ???
Reshuffle = same incompetent person employed doing another job role. Wow as if that will make a difference to the lack of insight, compassion, empathy and foresight this lot have. They appear only to be interested in the word Councillor before their name and the influence and power that can bring to them, not to the Island. I feel for the Council to achieve anything they need a local group of Islanders to be able to add a more sensible view and they should consist of ten people who actually live on the Island full time, and live in the area being discussed. Yes this would involve different groups but the information would prove both useful and beneficial to that areas residents and perhaps more easily achievable.