City Treasurer faces calls for suspension over incentive pay

Hamilton Green

Although some City Council workers did not get salaries for December, the staff members of the Treasurer’s Department were paid in full and were also granted incentives—a disclosure that yesterday prompted calls for an investigation and the suspension of City Treasurer Andrew Meredith.

At yesterday’s statutory meeting of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) at City Hall, furious discussions ensued when Meredith announced that about nine to 10 workers did not receive salaries and efforts were being made to have the situation resolved by yesterday afternoon.

“Why is it that one group of workers, who got salaries, got incentives also and the people who clean the streets and do