States chief executive resigns
Friday 18th February 2011, 3:01PM GMT.
Bill Ogley, who is leaving at the end of May
Jersey’s top civil servant Bill Ogley is to leave his post at the end of May.
A statement from Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur at lunchtime today said that he and the States chief executive had ‘agreed to a mutual termination of employment’.
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Is he not able to stand the pressure like Warcup then?
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Great news..
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How much will his replacement be on if the hospital one is considered to be worth £300k we’re looking @ lottery numbers possibly (UK one )
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Despite this gentleman’s phenomenal salary, the good ship Jersey has still run aground…..now look who is abandoning the sinking ship.
The sycophantic establishment keep telling us we have to pay for quality leadership – what proof do they have that the Island has had value for money?
Was he pushed or did he jump?
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People of Jersey do not be fooled. This is to take your attention away from the furore surrounding the extravagant payments to hospital UK contractors.
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Mr Ogley is being paid off as Mr Stuart Syvret predicted. Infact I start to wonder if Mr Syvret has a crystal ball, as he has been so right with all of his predictions. I wonder how much the golden handshake has cost us.
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fine and its about time too……….hes done enough to **** up this island and now he is grabbing the cash and running……..However how much is this costing us in the GOLDEN HANDSHAKE that is now the norm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hallelujah….at last ..how long has it taken to see the light of day..? No more of these non profit making freeloaders please.we can not afford these expensive drains on the community any more…we now need rid of Izatt and the ridiculous £320,000 Mc Laughlin got rid of then we can afford all sorts of goodies….
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Ode on the Announcement of “Sir” William Ogley’s imminent departure
Better, simpler, cheaper,
Gone.
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“agreed to a mutual termination of employment”
Wonder if it went the same way as Andrew McLaughlin’s interview.
Bill: I’m sorry Terry, I’ve had enough and fancy doing something different. A bit of gardening maybe.
Terry: Noooo!!!! Don’t leave me this way!! Stay. I’ll do anything.
Bill: No, I’m on the next boat out of here.
Terry: Please, at least stay for a while. Just until the end of your contractual notice period.
Bill: [Thinks]
Terry: I’ll give you lots of money.
Bill: [Thinks]
Terry: And recommend you for a knighthood.
Bill: [Thinks]
Terry: A guaranteed pension of lots of money. And a knighthood. And a lump sum – hundred grand, call it a relocation fee. It’s my final offer.
Bill: And can I have all the newborn males in Jersey for the next 5 year?
Terry: Yes, anything.
Bill: OK, I’ll stay for my contractual notice period.
Terry: Phew! I’d almost forgotten what a tough negotiator you are. (starts writing cheques and instructions to mcLaughlin to seize all newborns)
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Did he jump or was he pushed..? Either way, a good start. Now let’s cast our eyes towards WEB..
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A trimming of the bloated civil service starting at the top.
Well done Terry, now can we work our way down the tree?
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Whether he jumped or was pushed is irrelevant,it is good news, can he take Mr. Izatt with him?
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This is good news in my opinion. I hear complaints about him from people who work in the states, and much criticism around the various scandals in recent years seems to connect him in one way or another – although that doesn’t make it true of course. Hopefully we won’t need to replace either, since John Richardson’s ensconced.
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there’s Over £200,000.00 the states can save, use it to re introduce the milk for the kids. Money better spent in my eyes than Mr Ogley’s contribution to Jersey.
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Good riddance. Could someone please escort him to the boat and make sure he gets on it. Tonight preferably.
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I’d resign too, if I found out that the person who runs the hospital, gets a third more than I do, for running the island!
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Where’s the transparency? What is he being paid to leave? £300k, £500k? Some insane anount no doubt.
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This will leave us politically rudderless then
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12 – Mark
I agree with sentiment, but the precedent salary offered for the role has been set..will they just bring someone else in on that huge pay packet? You would hope not but this is the States….
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Good comment # 10 Donald Pond !
Put a smile on my face, which is more than Bill Ogley has ever done with the wages he has been getting … Not to mention Steven Izatt ‘s of Waterfront kwango fame . Just to much money been spent on these civil servants in my opinion.
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good , let hope the next one , has the wage cropped.
less than 100k, if no one wants the job(a outsider) get a local person to do it.
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Stuart Syvret right again. Does make you wonder.
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I might apply for the job…. any references? Truthseeker? Pip? Adrian?
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If he is replaced (and I am sure he is not needed) then a severe pay cut should be given to his replacement
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Best news this year!
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I take it that his severence terms and pension deal will never be made public?
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RT – I believe that you have exactly the qualifications, political persuasions and personality that our SOJ Human Resources Department will be looking for in the person to fill the job.
But I’m afraid that you’ll have to write your own references – you seem to do that every day of the week on these forums!
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HOORAY! Goodbye and good riddance. All we need now is a few more out and we will actually start to save some money!
The problem with this is that they will now employ another non job employee on more money than the last one. Will we even notice he has gone?
NO IS THE ANSWER TO THAT!
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“I might apply for the job…. any references? Truthseeker? Pip? Adrian?”
An excellent idea!
Coming up close to the States’ machine and its workings might disabuse you of some of the peculiar notions that you hold.
More to the point, I wonder if we will ever be told why he felt the need to go with what is remarkable speed for the most senior Jersey civil servant?
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When did Chief Minister Le Suer start having meetings with BO concerning his leaving? BO was disciplined ref the Napier Report. He is neck deep in the scandal of the unlawful suspension of the former Chief of Police. He is neck deep in the removal of former Health Minister Stuart Syvret.
David Warcup= Full Pension (golden handshake)
Bill Ogley= Full Pension (golden handshake)
Mike Pollard= Full Pension (golden handshake)
Now you see why they want the Syvret case struck out
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Stuart who?
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Never an admirer of this man, what has he done for the good of Jersey in the last 7 years. Nothing, I challenge anyone to produce one tangible positive result. But he is not a stupid man, he can see the storm clouds coming. The elections in October….he was going then in any event as are a lot of the house who support this extreme right wing ideology instigated by Ozouf and implemented by Mr Ogley. At least the Egyptians stood up and it’s time for middle Jersey to put an end to this madness.
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Good bye, do you need a lift to the airport?
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Jersey’s Chief Minister, Senator Terry Le Sueur and Mr Ogley agreed to a ‘mutual termination of employment’
Just how much did that cost the taxpayer????
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Isn’t it interesting how all the posts feel the same….why does the man in the street know what is wrong on the rock…and yet the powers that be splutter inane excuses hither and yon…then pay OUR money through the nose to be rid when it is so obvious that even people in Swaziland know it and cringe….and how relentlessly right Mr Stuart Syvret keeps on being, spot on about most things and usually well ahead of time,I really do not know how the Council of Monsters can look anyone in the eye,they must really go at the booze and Prozac to kill their consciences to such a hellacious degree.
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JEP
Files: ‘Second man’ is named
JERSEY’S top civil servant has told the Chief Minister that he was not involved in the set-up of Operation Blast.
In the States yesterday States chief executive Bill Ogley was unmasked as being the ‘second individual’ named in suspended police chief Graham Power’s memo about the secret police dossiers.
http://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/07/01/39340/
As Terry Le Suer and Phill Ozouf are on the states employment board, the same board that deliberates on Mr Izatt’s pay and bonuses, thought It reasonable to ask a question as a taxpayer.
As the leader of Jerseys Government,did you negotiate a little discount for the benefit of Jersey based on past indiscretions, by the employee retiring early ? go on tell us how much this has cost the hardworking taxpaying people?
Tim South.
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Now would be a very good time to bring back Stuart Syvret to sort out a few more bits of deadwood. What a shame that nobody took any notice of all the warnings and statements made by the only person ready to speak out on behalf of the people of Jersey, just to be castigated by them, and labelled ‘daft’
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Right.. now that Terry le Suere is off in october does anybody else feel a “revolution” coming on.Just lets wait till the tourists (remember them) go home .Looks like everything Stuart Syvert wrote is coming true. Come october, looks like Phillip O will be HOME ALONE. If i were him, I`d be afraid,very afraid.Power to the people.
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perhaps as a leaving present TLS could buy him his own personal shredder
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I am really saddened to hear this news because I thought he did a great job in his 8 year tenure. A man of honesty and integrity and a high calibre to replace so a happy retirement Mr Ogley you deserve it.
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As BO once said to Lenny Harper “This could bring down a Government” A nice pension should see BO ok. He really could bring down the Government if he wrote a book. How about it Bill? Write a book. Please shed some light into what went on between you Frank,Mick,Dave,Andrew and the Law Office.
Could you please tell us why you did it. Was it all about jerseys Image? People in high places?
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Bill Ogley is a decent bloke who did his best for Jersey.
I for one think he has done a decent job, in very challenging times.
Lets be honest, like David Warcup and Mike Pollard he has a wife and family, children, all who will have been hurt by the constant abuse and allegations from the author of the vile blogg and a few other sickos.
Tragic really that decent people can be hounded like this.
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This is from early 2003
The States has appointed a new chief executive
Jersey’s most senior politician has said islanders can expect to see better public services thanks to a strategic policy which will be overseen by a new civil service head.
Senator Frank Walker, president of the Policy and Resources Committee, said the new States chief executive’s brief will be to focus on domestic issues, specifically ensuring better public services.
Bill Ogley is due to start work in May as the new chief executive.
Mr Ogley has said he knows he has a huge task ahead of him and that he will work to ensure the government commands public respect.
“I’m looking forward to the challenge”
Bill Ogley
Mr Ogley said he believed there was a huge distance between the public and the States.
He said one of his first tasks will be to bridge that gap and put the public at the heart of government decisions.
Mr Ogley, who is credited with making Hertfordshire County Council one of the best performing authorities in the UK, said: “I’m aware of the problems and looking forward to the challenge.”
He said he wants to make islanders access to services quicker and faster.
Senator Walker said changes will not happen overnight but they will be noticeable.
He hopes that in so doing, they will help Mr Ogley deliver more cost-effective services.
Mr Ogley is due to start work on 12 May 2003
What did our Chief Minister say…………..
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I think this man’s treatment and others is horrific by a couple of wayward bloggers who bark a lot but have no real bite because its all lies. Lets hope karma comes back to them all soon.
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I agree with rico. Bill Ogley was a man of integrity and his decision making was of the up most brilliance you can only expect from a justifiably paid head CO with experiance in staffing issues. All the best Mr Ogley.
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“Mr Ogley, who is credited with making Hertfordshire County Council one of the best performing authorities in the UK”
How much was his salary there?
Mr Eric Pickles MP will not be supporting anything like the salary he was on here,but then with what he has made out of here & will continue to do so no doubt with payoff,pensions etc he won’t need to work again.
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so stuart syvret was right again but just how much has terry le seur and ozouf paid him to leave another scandal me thinks
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“Looks like everything Stuart Syvert wrote is coming true. Come october, looks like Phillip O will be HOME ALONE. If i were him, I`d be afraid,very afraid.Power to the people.”
Why do you think Mr Ozouf is so desperate for those extra 2 senator seats this coming election? Nothing to do with democracy. The Chief Executives position was untenable after the Napier Report just like David Warcups.
Joel 43 & Rico 41
Just like the Real Truthseeker pure farcical
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Joel 43,
Joel, I am getting on a bit, and I sometimes do not pick up on everything, so in order to prevent futher criticism on my part directed at Mr. Ogley,I would be forever grateful it you could remind me just exactly what contribution Mr. Ogley has made to Jersey, what in effect did he do to justify his enormous salary, what exactly will he go down in history for?
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Stuart who?
Funny how when the States start getting rid of the biggest salary earners the same idiots come on with stupid conspiracy theories that are a complete tangent away from reality.
If Jersey is really run like this then were are all the whistle blowers? Oh I forgot they meet up in secret on a few blogs and never come up with proof of anything.
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As someone who once worked on a project or two with Bill Ogley, I would say that he was very sharp and extremely hardworking. He was also very politically astute. On the other hand, civil servants (especially the majority of career civil servants who were essentially loyal but not brilliant) generally viewed him with a mixture of fear and dislike. Some of his mantras “just do it” and “better, simpler, cheaper” never really got off the ground.
But whenever I worked with him, he seemed of the highest calibre. My fear is that the real problem with Bill (as it is with Ozouf) is that he was more busy making alliances and playing politics than he was actually doing things.
And there were an awful lot of ridiculously overpaid appointments that happened on his watch. And not a huge sign of the efficiencies he was supposed to bring (e.g. despite TLS’s statement to the contrary when ITIS was introduced, we still have separate ITIS and SocSec forms to complete).
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Don # 52. Esentially what you are saying is, Bill made a pig’s ear of his role.
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Can’t he go a bit sooner …… hopefully save us a few bob
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Well said Gavin #51.
The rumour mongerers deliver nothing.
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I would say great- about time. But knowing how things go down, the replacement will cost us more in any case, taking into account the probable ‘golden parachute’ for good old Bill.
Oh no – I’ve just had a thought! We may be lumbered with John Richardson, Bill’s deputy. Remember how JR was tasked with saving us all loads of money? Well he hasn’t convinced anyone so far, least of all Scrutiny.
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Perhaps BO slipped on the flying banana? It would be good to know how much he has achieved by financial savings over the 8 years.
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Glad he’s leaving. The man is wasted on an island where a self serving minority conspire to prevent him from making the changes he is capable of achieving, which would benefit all Jersey residents. Your loss will be someone elses gain, as I am sure BO is not ready to don pipe and slippers just yet.
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I wouldn’t dismiss boomerang’s views (58) out of hand. BO is one of a long line of civil servants who appear to be unable to achieve in Jersey what they have managed to achieve elsewhere. Rather than always blaming the civil servant, perhaps we should look closer at the “real establishment” in Jersey (i.e. the unions and middle ranking civil servants) who make real change impossible.
There are football clubs like this: Newcastle and perhaps now Liverpool are the most obvious English ones but globally, Inter Milan were famed for decades for spending top dollar on great players who were rubbish when the donned the neroazzuri. It’s worth recalling Dennis Bergkamp couldn’t score when he played for Inter.
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‘agreed to a mutual termination of employment’. This sentence means that both Bil Ogley and Terry Le Sueur are leaving their jobs. Did he mean ‘mutually agreed to a termination of employment’?
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I think there are several civil servants who have done far less than Bill Ogley.
Look at the scenario at Esc- 6 Directors reporting to a Chief.
Harbours- a Commercial Director and Deputy Commercial Director….
The list goes on..
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Don # 59. Good points made here, however there have also been examples where mediocre ‘players’ have played their socks off when inspired by an excellent leader. Todate I haven’t heard anything inspirational come from the lips of Mr. Ogley.
Leaders would overcome problems caused obstructive and troublesome middle managers. These can be given instructions and deadlines and if they don’t do what is required, meet the standards, or do the job in on time, they can face the discipline code.
The usual procedure is for a verbal warning, followed by a first written warning, a second written warning and then dismissal or demotion.
I am ex-H.M. Forces, where discipline was pretty robust. Senior Officers had a tight grip on things. All you have to do is look at the Foot & Mouth situation, that occurred 10 years ago in the U.K. Local authorities were almost completely lost until the military took over.
He may be good at divising work processes and management speak, but there is little evidence he has achieved a great deal.
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Arthur Smith # 61 – Just because other Senior Managers have failed, it doesn’t excuse Mr. Ogley. Maybe if we had more inspirational political leaders, who knew what they were doing, it would help. We shouldn’t reward failure.
Out political masters should set deadlines and benchmarks for their senior civil servants and if they fail to achieve them, they should be given them the boot. I get the impression however that ‘bull poo’ baffles brains and the Chief Minister plus his cronies are frightened of the senior managers they employ.
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Essentially employed on a 5 yr contract since 2003…..
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#59 You make a good point. Rangers always bought top players that were injured before playing a game for the team. If someone has proven to be very capable somewhere else then there is a chance it is the setting that is the problem and not the person.
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61 Arthur Smith..you are quite right..a veritable golf team….There’s Sugden,Mike King and a whole host of lower profile and less well known ..all on huge salaries and expenses…which is why the Taxpayer is on his knees.
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Errr …. jumped, pushed or sinking ship???
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