howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
courtesy of the b.b.s website, good work if you can get it.
Kent County Council boss leaves with £400,000 Katherine Kerswell is due to leave the council after 18 months as managing director The managing director of Kent County Council (KCC) is to leave after 18 months in the post with a severance package believed to be about £400,000.
Katherine Kerswell, who joined in March 2010, will not be replaced as the council looks to make spending cuts.
Leader Paul Carter said the Conservative-run council would be able to operate very successfully without a managing director.
Lib Dem councillor Tim Prater said it was an experiment that could go wrong.
Ms Kerswell joined KCC from Northamptonshire County Council.
A KCC statement said she had done an exceptional job reshaping its management arrangements and was a first-rate public servant.
It added she would be leaving the council to pursue new interests.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
I have read that it was the tone of the statement that needed sorting before she would go. Carter is to take January off to drive in the London to Cape Town rally. When the news broke that he would still accept his expenses money for the month he will not be around he pledged to share the money between the rally's chosen charities.
I understand that each of the two charities involved have indeed received £500 each from him. Although, the truth is he is paid expenses at the monthly rate of £4,775.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
thanks for that info tom, i have no idea why mr carter wishes to take such a sabbatical at such a time.
why is ms kerswell worth about 25 years of minimum wage working?
k.c.c. say she is wonderful - so why are they getting shot of her?
if she is not up to the job why are they throwing vast quantities of money at her?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#4
She, as I did write a week or so ago, has NOT been seen in the office for weeks and weeks. I must say £40,000 is lower than the estimates I have seen.
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#5
Its £400.000 Tom , if only it was as low as £40.000
#6
One word: outrageous!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#7
Yes, thank you Sarah. [what is a zero amongst friends?]
The sum previously mentioned was closer to £1 million.
What chance is there ever of the least 'justice' when BOTH at the top are such as their acts display them to be?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
the last one waltzed off with a wheelbarrow load of money after resigning to move nearer his home.
the leader is now doing his cliff richard bit from the film "summer holiday" and swanning off.
meanwhile the kids school bus pass is doubled, rural bus services and libraries are being discontinued and street lights are being turned off.
if we complain it would be called the politics of envy.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#9
With an East Kent Council.................a KCC and DDC ......................ARE NOT REQUIRED......Big money saver!!!!!!!!!
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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#10
How is it that these people are able to leave their jobs with such generous pay offs? Why do organisations both in the public and prviate sectors insist on employing senior management on such terms? If the rest of us leave a job we get nothing. Another case of one rule for directors, and another rule for everyone else who actually does the work. If this sounds bitter, it's becasue I am!
#11
Can I just point out that Directors also "do the work". Not all work entails hard physical labour, but it is just as vital. I also need to point out that I am also outraged at the pay-off system as it is currently, so that wasn't a plea for kindness to the better off!!
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
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#12
As you know Reg, I do not disagree with your thoughts.
It's how you get there that's the issue,others agreeing and having the bottle not to be bought off.
Watty
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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#13
Agree, Bern. Directors do indeed "do the work" but at the same time they also always appear to benefit from these packages when the rest of us are told we have to accept lower terms. Pensions would be a very good example. The private sector has seen the steady dilution of final salary pension schemes, whilst the employees watch their Board of Directors award themselves ever increasing remuneration packages, including pensions that reach into the stratosphere! Leadership is what this country needs at the moment, and that means leading from the front and setting an example.
#14
No argument from me about leadership - leadership, proper leadership, is more crucial than money!
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#15
# 12...Paul W.Having been in your position and having tried to open the debate forward over a decade ago I really do
know the ``issue``and the sticking points of ``others lack of bottle``
I would like to assist you in your endeavours in any way I can,which I hope does not include you telling me to be quiet.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#16
#12and#15, I sympathise with political leaders of councils who, if they want to make radical changes, find themselves in the position of the captain of a supertanker whose crew don't really want to turn the ship around. On that subject PaulW, you and Nadeem will be receiving another email from me in the next couple of days. I think you probably know what the subject matter will be.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
sadly that is the case, any officer worth his/her salt will present a meddlesome councillor with a thousand page document to read when put under pressure by one.
usually works, the councillor has a day job to deal with before reading up reports.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
Howard, it's a problem with the system, not the people.....
Been nice knowing you :)
#19
And who perpetuates the system..........?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#20
Councillors and officers' are both 'the people'. Auditors? Central Government?
Been nice knowing you :)