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LETTER: Mayor, council should consider taking wage rollbacks

To the editor: I made a deputation before city council recent special budget session. I asked city council officials to take a 10 per cent pay cut in salary and benefits.

To the editor:

I made a deputation before city council recent special budget session. I asked city council officials to take a 10 per cent pay cut in salary and benefits.

This would see the following reductions: The Mayor makes $90,000 a year, which would save taxpayers $9,000 a year. Meanwhile every councillor makes $30,000 a year, so that would equal $3,000.00 less a year per councillor, or $36,000.

I also asked that they give back additional $2,000 a year for the free food and other perks of their jobs. All totalled, this would save $62,000.00 a year in their salaries a year.

I don’t think that they need to direct administration to tell non-union and union emloyees to go without while they still have not given back anything.

Thunder Bay city council must lead by example. To many of them this is their second job, so they can afford to go without something. What are they asking of their constituents.

Jon Powers,
Thunder Bay

 





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