Monthly staff briefing                                                                                             August 2015

Please read and cascade this bulletin to your teams - see guidance notes for managers on SharePoint

Please Note: The BCMT meeting scheduled for Tuesday 28 July 2015 has been cancelled.

There is a meeting scheduled for Thursday 13 August 2015 for all staff involved with Insurance Claims.

Team Link Updates

Please see the following updates from the Team Links:-

• Tiverton Team
• Torrington Team
• Barnstaple Team
• Exeter Team
• Eastern Team
• PRDG

Operational Reports

Please see the following operational updates from Task Champions:-

• ELM Update
• Vehicle Crossing Update
• Insurance Update
• Utility Stats Update
• Clerical Inbox Update
• License and Applications Update

Staff Achievements and Reward Scheme (STARS) is open to all Devon Highways staff The STARS Environment category is ideal to nominate our teams and colleagues. Has someone you know demonstrated an outstanding contribution to caring/managing our environment, and/or our natural resources? Take the opportunity to recognise a colleague/team for the work they do?  If you are unable to access the STARS webpage please download the nomination form and email or post it back.

Congratulations! Congratulations to Alli German who received the 'Industry Mentor of the Year' award at the Brightside Online Mentoring Awards. For further information regarding the award ceremony please see attached... For further information about the mentoring programme please see the Brightside website.

Complaints/Representations/FOI's

Please see the attached article for the most recent updates regarding the above.

Lewis has created a quick-and-easy guide to the complaints process.

Highway Restructure

The allocation of Neighbourhood Highway Officer posts in the new structure has now been confirmed.  The next step will be for Neighbourhood Highway Engineers to discuss with the new teams the allocation of Electoral Divisions to individual officers and determine who wishes to be considered for inclusion in the standby arrangements.

Please see the attached structure to see where officers will be based.  It is planned to introduce the new arrangements from 1 September 2015.

Congratulations! Congratulations to Pippa Snelling from the Exeter BCMT who recently got married on Saturday 11 July 2015, to Alex Gray. The systems have been updated and amended to show Pippa Gray.

On Tuesday 21 July 2015, two teams 'Roundabouters' captained by Julie Fergusson and 'The Roundabounders' captained by Simon Milner, battled it out for the all important trophy and bragging rights of Lucombe House.  For more information please see the following article.

This month we say 'Hello' to... Kevin Garnsworthy who has joined the Exeter BCMT Michael Sadowski who has joined the Barnstaple BCMT This month we say 'Goodbye' to... Peter McDermott who has left the Barnstaple BCMT Dan Ray who leaves the Newton Abbot BCMT on 31 July 2015.

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