There is no guarantee that retrenchment will solve the problems that are currently facing the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC). This is the conviction of Public Relations Officer, Royston King, who said that it is very difficult to understand why some persons are convinced that retrenchment is the only option available to the City Council to reduce cost.According to King, a number of organisational studies have shown that retrenchment can increase rather than cut cost.“Even if the council were to retrench, then it would still need to carefully study the organisational,
Wholesale Jerseys USA, social and other costs associated with it.”He added that there are several very serious disadvantages involved, including the fact that retrenchment could result in fiscal stress and human resource shrinkage that can cause many difficult problems for administration and the city alike. These problems, he said, can be caused by the methods used by the council to cope with the need to retrench, and decrementalism.However, King has surmised that the major problem is the decrease of human resources that result from cost cutting measures.“It brings loss of skills, energy, morale, commitment, physical and mental health degradation that results from employees withdrawing physically and emotionally. Decrementals also cause reduced co-operative attitudes, greater fear and distrust, poor communication, lowered performance goals, restriction of production and increased turnover.”As such, he noted that it is very possible that costs will increase as a result of retrenchment due to the package that must be paid out on retrenchment and catering for the needs of re-training those retained by the municipality.Although lay-offs are intended to reduce the costs, some costs like the severance package, pension and administrative processing costs will increase, King added.? For this reason, he related that the cost reduction as an advantage of retrenchment is not attainable in the short run.? He pointed out that even in the long run, its achievement may be doubtful.King asserted that it has always been the intent of the council to focus on improving its efficiency to deliver quality service to citizens rather than on retrenchment.“The thing is we do not need staff to provide service rather we provide service that is why we need staff. Therefore, to just retrench staff would be to undermine our ability to provide the services to citizens.”He highlighted that the council is short of staff in almost all of its departments as it has not been able to fill a number of vacancies created by people who have retired or resigned, and, in some cases it is difficult to recruit people with certain aptitude and skills to work in critical areas because of the lack of money. In essence, he noted that to cut staff would be to further reduce an already depleted workforce.Accordingly, he noted that council is continuing to explore restructuring as an appropriate option to make optimal use of its human and other resources. If this is achieved,
Cheap Jerseys China, the PRO noted, the current range of municipal services could be effectively and efficiently managed. He said this development could lead to a fundamental concern about the need for money at the city council.Over the last two years,
Cheap Jerseys, he recounted that the council and the Commission of Inquiry engaged in a process of examining, with great particularity, every aspect of the specific and general responsibilities of the municipal body.“Evolving out of that was a comprehensive report with very specific, measurable benchmarks and indicators and recommendations to improve efficiency in every section of the municipality. Also, an Implementation Committee, headed by Mr. Keith Burrowes, was appointed to assist the council to implement the recommendations of the report. We believe that if the recommendations are implemented then the council could do much better in many areas of its responsibility.”And the resulting report, King said, was very strong on the financial management of the council,
Cheap Jerseys Free, particularly on securing the integrity of the municipality, the collection of rates and strengthening of the legal section. It is true, he added that, property-owners owe the council hundreds of millions of dollars, even as he outlined that “if we were to collect those outstanding amounts then we would be more than able to honour our obligations to our workers and garbage and other contractors. We have tried everything to persuade home-owners to pay their rates but many have not even paid attention to us.”The municipality’s lenient approach has given some the impression that “we must beg them to honour their civic obligation to the city. It has