Richard Flinton will oversee a budget of some of £1.4 billion as the new North Yorkshire Council is created
“And it's very much been an ambition of mine, to try and help to bring that to fruition.“You are caught by the size of the role and the magnitude of the issues and responsibilities that are involved.
“We hope on that first day that they'll see no difference because the idea is that all of the places that they would access council services from will continue.The public shouldn’t see any immediate impact,” he said. “They know where to go to access services. Leisure centres will be open, bins will get collected, all of those normal things will still happen.”
He said: “We’ve got to go through a number of years of some really in depth transformation as to how council services can operate, where we will need to make savings because we know that austerity is going to once again hit local government very hard. “There are just so many issues pressing on everybody's daily lives, whether that's threats from emergencies relating to climate change or cost of living impacts.have more and more got to be seen to be standing alongside people and working on these massive issues.”
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