City councillors voted in favour of a 33% pay increase for themselves and an 8% increase for other officers in the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) during the council’s statutory meeting yesterday.
By a show of hands, 13 councillors voted in favour of the workers’ increase while nine indicated that they were in favour of the 33% increase, raising councillors’ monthly salary from $45,000 to $60,000.
City Treasurer, Andrew Meredith, had announced that council had approved the 33% increase, but this was strongly contradicted by GGG Councillor Patricia Chase-Green who emphasized that such an