Transition Island Blog

“Isle of Wight Council Chief Executive Joe Duckworth is to leave the authority in the summer to take up the same role at the London Borough of Newham.

“IW Council leader Cllr David Pugh pledged the transition to a new chief executive would not disrupt the council’s aims and objectives, not least its ambitious plans to transform itself into Eco Island — a energy self-sufficient island by 2020.”

From the Council’s press release [read more]

We had been hoping that he would help us to push through a revitalisation of the CarShare scheme the Island desperately needs. Let’s hope he could see that completed before he leaves.

Opinion:
We do hope that the transition to a new permanent Chief Executive will go smoothly. Too often ‘new brooms’ move goal-posts, and interim managers allow innovations to stall.

It would be such a shame…

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