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Article: Council chief executive to retire
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- June 13, 2003
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THE most senior officer with a North-East local authority is to
stand down after more than a decade in charge.
Colin Sinclair will retire as Sunderland City Council's chief
executive in December as part of a planned shake-up of senior posts.
The 51-year-old, appointed chief executive in 1993, said: "This is
the ideal time for the council and myself to make a change.
"I've been chief executive with the authority for more than ten
years now and we have achieved a great deal."
The council earned an "excellent" rating in the Government's first
assessment of local authority performance round the country, last
December, and Mr Sinclair recently spearheaded the launch of the
city's peoplefirst ...