Huron Expositor, 2015-02-11, Page 3Wednesday, February 11, 2015 • Huron Expositor 3
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Seaforth TD branch donates to Summer Fest
The Seaforth TD Bank branch has donated $2,500 to the Seaforth Business Improvement Area (BIA) to help fund the community's 2015 Summer Fest extravaganza on July 17. Pictured: TD Seaforth
branch manager Jason Baird with TD employees Lindsay Bambrough and Mary Reynolds and BIA members Carol Anne Doig and Maureen Agar.
Huron East council pay and expenses down in 2014
Cost of wages
and expenses
drops to $129,000
Marco Vigliotti
Huron Expositor
The cost of wages and
expenses for Huron East coun-
cil members totalled just less
than $129,000 in 2014, marking
a roughly $14,000 decline from
the previous year, according to
annual renumeration figures
released by the municipality.
Council members received a
combined $117,775 in honorar-
iums and meeting and conven-
tion reimbursements, with the
remainder paid out for mileage
and miscellaneous expenses.
Miscellaneous costs include
Canadian Pension Plan and
Workplace Safety and Insur-
ance Board payments, as well
as other assorted expenses.
As expected, Mayor Bernie
MacLellan received the highest
level of compensation, earning
just shy of $18,600 in 2014 for
his work as the municipality's
top elected official - about
$8,000 of which was for his
base honorarium.
MacLellan and Coun. Alvin
McLellan were the only mem-
bers of council to post mileage
expenses above $1,000. Coun-
cillors Ray Chartrand, Bob
Fisher, Nathan Marshall and
Larry McGrath filed no mileage
claims, though all council
members posted at least $51 in
miscellaneous expenses.
Chartrand was the only
councillor to receive less than
$1,000 in payment, collecting
$940 for his time on council in
2014.
Council remuneration fig-
ures have jumped considerably
in recent years, peaking at a
combined total of $142,000 in
2013.
In 2002, that figure was about
$95,000.
Determining a trend line,
however, is difficult, with the
renumeration amounts varying
greatly year -by -year.
On average, council mem-
bers received between $8,000
and $12,000 for their services in
2014 - slightly less than the
annual wages of a part-time,
minimum wage worker.
Most council members work
a full-time job in addition to
their legislative duties.
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