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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-02-12, Page 19Huron East council set a policy instone at its Feb. 3 meeting that willsee council receive the same raise itsemployees get for the foreseeable future. At council’s first meeting of 2009, on Jan. 6, there was an investigation into a past bylaw that saw council receive the same pay raises as staff and discussion that while the bylaw had been enacted, council hadn’t been following it, having not received a raise since 2006. After further investigation, however, it was discovered that no such bylaw existed and that it was up to council to enact a new policy on pay raises. Then council passed a resolution that would give them a two per cent raise, mirroring the cost of living expense raise the municipality voted to give its staff. However, there was some confusion among councillors at the Feb. 3 meeting as to what raise had been voted in. Deputy-mayor Bernie MacLellan and councillor David Blaney saidthey were under the impression theyhad voted in a raise based on the factthat council hadn’t got a raise since2006. This, according to MacLellanwould give council a close to 6.5 percent raise, in accordance with the two per cent raise in 2007, the 2.5 per cent raise in 2008 and the two per cent raise for 2009. If the raise was approved, however, all councillors agreed the raise should not be retroactive. However, with no such bylaw in place, such a raise couldn’t be justified. The rates, as previously reported, will go from $125 to $127.50 per council meeting, a meeting exceeding four hours will go from $160 to $163.20, a half-day seminar will go from $80 to $81.60 and a committee meeting will go from $60 to $61.20 and the councillors’ per diem will go from $4,500 for mayor Joe Seili to $4,590, $3,500 for deputy-mayor Bernie MacLellan to $3,570 and $2,500 for councillors up to $2,550. If council had voted to receive the updated rates year-by-year,councillors would receive $139.97per meeting along with anhonorarium of $5,038.79 for themayor, $3,919.06 for the deputy-mayor and $2,799.33 forcouncillors. Councillor Bill Siemon made the motion to enact a policy that would see councillors receive the sameannual raises as staff, saying “Noone can say we’re paying ourselvesoff. We’re treating ourselves thesame as we treat our staff.”MacLellan said he was thinking ofclerk-administrator Jack McLachlan and treasurer Brad Knight when discussing a possible pay increase, recalling the new pay grid HuronEast implemented last year.“The reason we did that wasbecause we felt that we had staffbeing underpaid in comparison toother municipalities in HuronCounty,” MacLellan said. “We agreed to hold off last year because of the tax jump though.” THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009. PAGE 19. 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