New - Cabinet Member for Efficiency and Value for Money
February 26, 2009 9:39 PM
Prospective Member of Parliament for Bristol East, Mike Popham is now Bristol City Council's Cabinet Member for Efficiency and Value for Money.
Delighted with this portfolio Mike said, "Greater value for money - efficiency - will be key to meeting the challenge of improving Bristol City Council's services within the resources available. Although we are expected to deliver 3 per cent per annum efficiency gains we will not rest there."
"Achieving more for the same or less resource is a vital aspect of service delivery. So by getting lower prices for products, automating processes, reducing errors, and removing duplication, the Council should be able to hold down council tax and drive improvement where it matters most."
"We will also be considering innovative ways of improving services including helping our small and medium sized companies to trade themselves out of the recession - the key to compensating for, and driving up local employment, enabling our officers and staff to fulfil all that they can, and teaming strongly with our suppliers. Also key is working hard with our partners so that the City serves the surrounding region." Mike added.
Sustainable efficiency means ensuring that members, managers and staff (whether engaged in operational service delivery or business support) have continuous improvement in value for money as core to their roles. Increasingly they will require knowledge and skills to utilise routinely the wide range of business improvement tools and customer-need analyses available to support effective decision-making.
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