20 — Sunday, December 1, 1996 — North Shore News

Salary increase issue
referred to mew council

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Munroe told the gallery on
Monday that while meetings
connected to council business
often iake up feur nights a
week, there are many more
requests from the community
and events that could be sup-
ported.

“A councillor may spend up
to 60, 70 or 75 hours a week
on council business but no pro-
visions are made for a car or car
allowance. If you use your own

car you are essentially subsidiz-
ing council business,” said
Crist.

But Coun. Janice Harris
told ceuncil she doesn’t put
anything like 75 hours a week
into the job “and T wouldn't
really want to quite frankly.”

She later told the News, “I
think the remuneration is rea-
sonable for what is meant to be
4 part-time job.

“There has been long-sim-
mering discontent among
some councillors about this and

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it finally crawls onto the agenda
as the last item of the last meet-
ing of this council.”

Added Harris, “What sort
of signals are we going to send
to our union workers at con-
tract negotiation time with
such a big increase?”

Doug Lawson was one of

the four-member review com-
mittee,

He told the News that the
indemnity should not be con-
sidered a salary for hours
worked.

“The trouble with Ernie is

his loner style. If he worked on
a team basis he wouldn't need
to put in so much time solving
every issue himself'and shaking
everyone by the hand.

“Don't get me wrong. |
voted for him, but he comes
from a union background and
seems to think if he puts in
overtime he should be paid for
overtime.”

Mayor Murray Dykeman
suggested that the UBCM
(Union of British Columbian
Municipalities) should be look-
ing at the concept of indemni-

fication.

“I know this council meets
more often than most.
Whether that is self-directed or
self-inflicted I don’t know,”
said Dykeman.

Of the Lower Mainland
municipalities the district ranks
seventh by population, some
15,000 residents less than
Delta which ranks sixth.

District councillors also rank
seventh in terms of the size of
their indemnity — taking home
some $200 less than their Delra
counterparts.

Only Vancouver's (pop.
521,048) pay scale stands out
significantly at $40,050, bur
Vancouver City is “governed
under a charter not the
Municipal Act.

Crist ultimately withdrew
his motion calling for an imme-
diate pay increase tied to 50%
of the mayor’s stipend.

Instead, Coun. Don Bell’s
motion referring the issue to
the new council and recom-
mending the increase was
approved in a 4-2 vote (Coun.
Jim Cuthbert was absent).

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