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    Paul Hepworth wrote:
    My doppleganger PP seems to have commented earlier on the remit of an Council Officer's role. Not a conniving Sir Humphrey as some of you might think. As a lobbyist for the cycling organisation CTC, I have to make submissions to Bill Woolley's team on a range of consultation issues, and have always received courteous, helpful and politically neutral advice where I have sought it. Those ethics are reflected throughout the Directorate. I would not expect less. I think that some of you who have publicly accused a Council Officer of political bias should be very ashamed of yourselves.
    Take your head out of the sand, and don't be so naive. You're representing cycling, and they are all for it, because it's green, non-political and harmless.
    Ask councillors, off the record, if officers are politicised, and you will get a different answer to the one you expect. The political bias of some officers is shocking, and you should be ashamed of your ignorance !"
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Search begins for senior York council officer replacement

THE search for a replacement for one of York’s most senior council officers is set to begin – and they will be paid between £88,000 and £102,700 a year.

Bill Woolley, City of York Council’s deputy chief executive and director of city and environmental services, will retire in June after 16 years with the authority, during which he has worked on many major projects including the transformation of West Offices, on Station Rise, into a new council headquarters, the Hungate development, Foss Islands Shopping Centre and the Millennium Bridge.

The council is next week set to approve setting up an appointments sub-committee to find a replacement for Mr Woolley, whose role was renamed from director of city strategy this month, with the pay grade being between £88,080 and £102,766. The latter figure is Mr Woolley’s current salary.

The recruitment process will run alongside the search for a joint director of public health and wellbeing, which will be NHS-led. The holder of this post will be seconded to the council until it is formally transferred to the authority next April, and Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, cabinet member for health, housing and adult social services, and the council’s chief executive Kersten England will sit on the recruitment panel.

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