Friday, June 22, 2007

PDC?

What's up at Purbeck District Council?
The Chief Executive has had a heart attack and is understandably below par. We hear the Deputy Chief Exec has left, as has the Head of Legal Services. There is still no Conservation Officer. Now it seems they are looking for a new Tourism Officer and Clean Neighbourhoods Officer.
Why don't they like working in the beautiful Purbecks?
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its diffucult to find people with the ability to say one thing and do the opposite,(french nation excluded) so perhaps recruitment is the problem.

22/6/07 12:36 pm
Anonymous said...

I'm too lazy to go and check but I think we've done this one before at County level.

Public service wages versus cost of living - or rather buying.

23/6/07 9:32 pm
Anonymous said...

Whoops, forgot to say that there's a Public Meeting - so important that it got 2 capitals - on Tues 26-6, please see:

http://www.purbeckhousingaction.co.uk/

23/6/07 9:36 pm
Anonymous said...

Wages in public service are low near London and in the South East compared to the general household incomes in those areas.
In South Dorset those working in local government, the police, hospitals, and so on, are actually rather well paid, compared, that is, to the the majority of residents working in this area who are very poorly paid.
Wages in the public sector can be, and are at times, very high, considering the worth of the individual. The Chief Executive of the County Council is on around £150,000 a year and several of his immediate underlings are on £120,000. These are not low paid people. The same applies, surely, at Purbeck District, where those in the the top jobs receive, I nearly wrote earn and thought better of it, some sums which would be breathtaking to most local householders.

23/6/07 11:01 pm
Anonymous said...

I was told that it had been known for some time that the Chief Exec of PDC was going into hospital for an operation. His Deputy was going off during this time on holiday for an entire month prior to his retirement. You would think that situation should have been questioned. Perhaps it illustrates an aspect of the problem at PDC.

24/6/07 3:37 pm
Anonymous said...

There has not been a Conservation Officer at PDC since October. Youd think it was not an important job. But old buildings are very much part of what people come here to see. But PDC has someone to go round policing the you must stop smoking anywhere you might enjoy it law and probly prosecuting people. Priorities?

25/6/07 9:24 am
Anonymous said...

but it was a blessing when the last conservation officer left so be thankfull for small mercies!

25/6/07 11:15 pm

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