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Raises all around for mayor and council
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ew people run for political office for the money, but the gigs get more and more lucrative all the time. Pay for the top job at city hall increased 18 per cent since 2010 when the mayor made $78,097.
Councillors’ pay bump equal to 7.3%, mayor gets 2.5%
This year Mayor Sharon Gaetz will earn a tidy $92,361 and the six city councillors take home $34,448 for the part-time job. (By “top job” we mean top elected official. The city’s chief administrative officer Peter Monteith made
$235,146 in 2013 and 53 staffers earned more than Gaetz.) That’s because, once again, a formula used every three years means a 2014 raise for Chilliwack municipal elected officials. This is something that does not come before city coun-
cil and is not reported by city hall in any way unless requested. In January 2011, the mayor’s salary quietly went from $78,097 to $87,022 and city council salaries went from $26,648 to $31,025. Those raises were based on a
council remuneration bylaw that sees pay rates reviewed and adjusted every three years through an averaging of the five B.C. local governments immediately larger than Chilliwack, in terms of population, the five immediately smaller, and Abbotsford.
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A Jehovah’s Witness is baptized in a pool during last Saturday’s convention at the Prospera Centre. The Witness was one of 16 immersed in water at the three-day event that hosted almost 3,000 attendees. A person only gets baptized in the faith once they have studied the Bible, and understand the principles.
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