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Service Structure
Aberdeenshire Council's activities are organised into five Services, supported by six Area Managers.
Services
Chief Executive
Colin Mackenzie
Salary: £133,971
Education, Learning & Leisure
Director: Maria Walker
Salary: £109,827
Corporate Services
Director: Christine Gore
Salary: £109,827
Housing & Social Work
Director: Ritchie Johnson
Salary: £109,827
Infrastructure Services
Director: Stephen Archer
Salary: £109,827
Senior Management Team
Area Managers
Aberdeenshire Council is too large to run as a single unit and Scottish Councils were required to bring forward proposals for decentralisation.
Aberdeenshire Council has established six areas within which local decisions will be taken locally by elected Members. Corporate and policy matters will decided at Council headquarters.
Aberdeenshire's six areas each have an Area Committee, an Area Manager and an Area Management Team.
Banff & Buchan - Margaret Jane Cardno
Buchan - Chris White
Formartine - Keith Newton
Garioch - Douglas Milne
Kincardine & Mearns - William Munro
Marr - Leslie Allan
The Area Manager's job, with the help of the Area Management Team, is to enable the Area Committee to make local decisions and to ensure that these decisions are carried out.
The Council will work with the communities in each area to prepare an Area Plan which reflects local needs and provides input for the Council's policies and programmes. A system of area budgets is under development. Area Committees already disburse local development grants of various kinds.
To ensure that the six areas do not become separate 'mini Councils' every elected Member is a member of an Area Committee and serves on corporate policy committees, and each Area Manager is a member of the Council's Senior Management Team. Area Committees are therefore able to influence central policy making within the context of local grass roots requirements.
