= West Van responds
| to Cuff assessment

Catherine Barr
Contributing Writer

A reorganized internal
structure, new job
descriptions and an
annual review of senior
positions highlights ;
West Vancouver's official
response to George
Cuff’s municipal organi-
zational review.

“I am picased to submit the
results of coundi’s extensive

cliberations with respect to
the recommendations put for-
ward by Mr. Coffin his July 12
(corporate review) reports,”
said Mayor Pat Boname.

The 13-page synopsis was
released without discussion or
debate last Monday during
counal’s regular meeting.

A three-column chart out-
lines int brief detail the title, rec-
ommendation and council
response to each sub-section
contained within the
Recommendations for Council
section (part A), and the
Recommendations for
(part B).

In fot, council has
responded directly to over 70
issues raised in the report. Still,
many items appear to be lack-
ing in derail.

In a section titled Role of
the Mayor, council has agreed

for the office of mayor in any
public setting. The response
reads: “(Council’s) conformity
with the recommendation will
reflect the measure of the
mayor’s fulfillment of the spe-
cific matters identified by the
consultant, including the essen-
tial need for consistent com-
munications benveen them in
their separate roles.”

In a section uted Role of
the CAO (Manager), council
has again accepted in principal
Cuff’s recommendations.
Council has directed the man-
ager “to p a plan of rcor-
ganization tor the delivery of
Municipal services” and to
amend job descriptions.

Yearly performance reviews
will also be conducted for all
senior level managers.

Council has however reject-
ed the idea of having only .vo
monthly meetings instead of
the current four. It has further
rejected the section regarding a
corporate prioritics committee
and has domissed the recom-
mendation that council imple-
ment “the proposed organiza-
tion structure.” :

Calling the newly proposed
structure “cumbersome”
“slow,” council has instead
chosen to use the manager’s
reorganization process to
improve service delivery.

Recommendations involv-
ing a confidential personnel
report, corporate services and
some operational services are

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currently under review.

This public response pack-
age formally marks the end of
council's involvement in what
has been described by the
mayor in the past as a long and
dificult process.

“Since (September), we
have carefully reviewed and
considered each of the recom-
mendations put forward by Mr.
Cuff,” said Boname. “This has
now been completed and the
results are attached hereto for
public receipt.”

The organizational review,
better known as the Cuff
report, was commissioned by
council last year in January. It
was the first major corporate
review for West Vancouver in
25 years.

CulfPs final assessment
included comments about
senior management, the role of
the mayor and council criti-
cism. He concluded that the
involved paities lacked an
understanding of their roles
and needed a better decision-
making process and sense of
direction.

But the publicly released
version of the Cuff report was
stripped by Lidstone Young
Anderson, municipal solicitors,
ar.2 contained lirge gaps, miss-
ing paragraphs, and blank
spaces. This step, according to
Mayor Pat Boname, was neces-
sary in order to protect individ-
uals from being identified.

The move drew fire.

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