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City of Chilliwack’s 10 most highly paid employees earned an average salary of $166,686 in 2013 BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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inety-four employees of the City of Chilliwack were paid more than $75,000 last year and of those, 36 made more than $100,000. Chief administrative officer (CAO) Peter Monteith topped the list with his salary of $235,146 in 2013, an increase of just under one per cent over his 2012 pay. Monteith also logged $4,404 in expenses last year. This includes a vehicle allowance. Second on the list of highly paid staffers was deputy CAO Chris Crosman who earned $187,793 in 2013 and billed for $4,950 in expenses. That’s an 8.5 per cent increase over his 2012 pay. Third was director of corporate services Robert Carnegie who made $177,974 plus $827 in expenses in 2013. His salary increased by 4.8 per cent. The information comes from the annual remuneration report all municipalities are required to file by June 30 of each year. While other municipal govern-

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Ex-teacher sentenced in child porn case BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

Top 10 highest paid city employees

1. CAO Peter Monteith 2. Deputy CAO Chris Crosman

$235,146 $187,793

3. Director of corporate services Rob Carnegie $177,974 4. Director of engineering David Blain 5. Director of operations Glen MacPherson 6. Director of recreation Gordon Pederson 7. Project manager Eric Dyck 8. Fire chief Ian Josephson 9. Director of finance Glen Savard 10. Deputy director of corporate services Delcy Wells ments present the remuneration report to city council—both the City of Abbotsford and the City of Langley did so at meetings in May—Chilliwack does not. The city is required, however, to make the information available to the public, but it has to be requested. The number of staff members who were paid more than $75,000 in Chiliwack did not increase over 2012, when there were also 94. Those paid more than $100,000 a year at city hall increased from 34 in 2012 to 36 last year.

$175,525 $170,766 $169,238 $154,462 $134,976 $130,942 $130,042

Of the 94 most highly paid employees, approximately one-third are firefighters. Chilliwack RCMP salaries are not included in the remuneration report. To compare the Chilliwack CAO’s $235,146 salary to others, City of Langley (population 25,000) CAO Francis Cheung was paid $199,000 in 2013, and Abbotsford (population 150,000) city manager George Murray was paid a salary of $230,000. Abbotsford had 114 employees who earned more than $100,000 in 2013. Mayor Sharon Gaetz’s salary of

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$87,000 puts her in the middle of the pack on the list of 94 top paid employees. Chilliwack’s six part-time city councillors earn $31,119 in 2013. Total remuneration and expenses for the 94 employees who earned more than $75,000 2013 was $9.6 million. Total remuneration and expenses for the other 381 employees who earned less than $75,000 2013 was $12.5 million. The total paid to all 475 employees and seven city council members in 2013 was just under $22.8 million.

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former Chilliwack elementary school teacher has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for possession and distribution of child pornography. John Patrick Davy offered up no emotion in Chilliwack Court Tuesday as Judge Roger Cutler handed down the sentence. Cutler said that while there was no legal breach of tr ust in that Davy—a Grade 6 EB IRST teacher at Greendale elementa- First reported on r y school—was chilliwacktimes.com found with more than 27,000 digital child pornography images and 866 videos, his role as an educator made the case particularly disturbing. “There can be no doubt that his position as a teacher is regarded as an aggravating factor,” Cutler said. The judge said the “great paradox” of the case, and something that defied comprehension, was how a man with a “stellar reputation” as a teacher and who had made considerable contributions to the community could simultaneously be downloading and trading images and videos of children as young as infants being sexually assaulted. “This ultimately self-ruinous conduct is perplexing to all of those concerned with this case including the defendant,” Cutler told the court.

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