TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: Jill Keimach, Town Manager
DATE: December 5, 2019
CONTACT:
Staff Contact Jill Keimach, Town Manager (480) 348-3533
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Overview of New Functional Organizational Chart and Reporting Structure, Changing Finance and IT Divisions to Departments, Requesting a Change in Authorized Positions From a Deputy Town Manager Position to an Entry Level Planner, Promotion of Community Development Director and Reclassifications of Existing Planning Staff; and Extending the Option of an Alternative Work Schedule to All Staff
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BACKGROUND:
Organizational Structure
In reflecting on the Town of Paradise Valley's long history and strong expressed values of limited government and in reviewing organizational structures that have been used previously in the Town of Paradise Valley, the attached functional organizational structure with a new reporting structure has been implemented by the Town Manager.
The new structure:
1. Combines the Engineering Department within Community Development;
2. Establishes the Community Development Director as the lead of the newly combined department that includes Planning, Building/Inspection and Engineering;
3. Adds reporting relationships with Community Development, Public Works and the Post Office to the Town Manager;
4. Changes two divisions, Finance and IT, previously under the management of a Deputy Town Manager into departments directly reporting to the Town Manager; and
5. Retains the authority, breadth, and responsibility of all department (and former division) heads.
Personnel Changes
The organizational changes are a result of a desire to exchange an upper management position for a lower level position in an effort to provide additional customer service where needed most. With the change in Community Development, Engineering, and Building/Inspection, the focus is intended to increase the Town's response and transparency with applicants by having the routine ...
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