GEORGE NEWS - The new head of Community Services, Allen Paulse, was officially appointed on 1 May. He acted in this position from January this year.
A qualified attorney who practiced law during his earlier years, Paulse hails from Paarl and studied at the University of the Western Cape.
He has vast experience in managing public institutions and is well known in local government circles for having a great strategic approach in the workplace. He has occupied the position of municipal manager in the Oudtshoorn, Bitou and Breede Valley municipalities from 2002 to October 2020.
The Community Services Directorate includes refuse removal and waste management, libraries, parks and recreation, sport development, community development, environmental services and the extended public works programme (EPWP), with a total of 235 staff members.
Paulse says he will be applying strategic functioning to the units and sections in the directorate, without taking away from core functions of each unit.
"My overall approach will be to re-align the directorate strategically along core principles relating to people management, financial management and more. I will be output-driven by way of training, motivating and directing my subordinates to optimise work place productivity," he says.
Some of his financial management planning and planning towards quality outputs are already in use.
Paulse says one of his most important tasks will be to replace the culture of mediocracy and complacency with one of productivity and proudness to be part of the Community Services Directorate, through acknowledging and rewarding excellence. Paulse and his wife Adré have four children, Dino (deceased), Curnick, Adlen and Iviwe.
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