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City of Revelstoke announces major restructuring
2013 B.C. Mine Rescue Competition
City eliminates planning director position, intends to focus on ‘development services’ over planning Aaron Orlando
editor@revelstoketimesreview.com
The City of Revelstoke announced a sweeping overhaul to city administration and services, including staff reductions, realignment of duties and responsibilities amongst city departments and a review of city services. The major changes were announced on June 5. Here are some specifics: – Director of Engineering Mike Thomas will assume an expanded role, replacing the recently departed planning director John Guenther. Thomas’s position will be Director of Engineering and Development and he will oversee engineering, building inspection, planning and development services. – Engineering, planning and building inspection services will be located on the lower level of city hall. – Bylaw enforcement will now be a responsibility of the administration department, not the planning department. – The city will create a new communications/corporate administration position. – The city plans to eliminate several positions, but hasn’t specified which ones. Some of these positions will result in new, integrated positions. – The city plans to review public works with the view of making the department more efficient. – The bylaw creation process will take place in the administration department; for the past several years, the lion’s share of new bylaws were generated and driven by the planning department. – The city plans to physically overhaul the city hall building. In addition to the long-planned upgrade to the stucco envelope, a new service entrance will be added on Second Street. It will be accessible to those with mobility challenges. In an interview with the Times Review, City of Revelstoke Chief Administrative Officer Tim Palmer said the changes are designed to improve customer service, create a more efficient organization, improve communications and focus on core services. He said the city has drifted away from its core services and had become bureaucratic and inefficient, creating “significant frustration” amongst its clients. “By realigning and integrating the departments we’ll save a lot of duplication in labour that was occurring. Coming with that will also be improved customer service,” Palmer said. He added the changes will also lead to streamlined internal processes. “By realigning and integrating the departments we’ll save a lot of dupli-
The Provincial Mine Rescue Competition took place in Revelstoke on Saturday, and made for some intense moments as mine rescue teams from across B.C. competed in a series of challenge tasks. Clockwise from top: Members of the Coal Mountain Mine rescue team move in to put out a fire during one of the tests the teams went through; A member of the Wolverine mine rescue team is lowered down with a stretcher while his teammate cares for a man who’d fallen into a large container; The Gibraltar mine rescue team takes part in the three-person First Aid drill, which saw them care for one man who was electrocuted and another that had his arm cut off in a conveyor accident. Alex Cooper/Revelstoke Times Review
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