Two and a half minutes well worth the time for TNRD directors
It took TNRD directors roughly two and a half minutes today to give themselves record-setting increases. A new remuneration bylaw provides for an increase in the annual indemnity for electoral area directors by 2.4 per cent plus $5,000 each. Municipal directors get the same thing.
The quick passage was a cheap political tactic, of course. Keep your head down, say nothing, don’t give the media anything to quote you on. Only directors Al Raine of Sun Peaks, and John Sternig of Area P (Rivers and the Peaks) spoke against the increases. Nobody spoke in favour because nobody wanted to have to defend voting for such an outrageous increase.
As a Daily News editorial said last week, the increases mean city directors will get about $230 an hour based on the average workload for municipal members of this board.
The handsome pay hikes are in keeping with the TNRD board’s long record of rewarding itself well beyond what is reasonable or defensible.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
The TNRD entitlement issue deserves a couple of quotes ! “Some animals are more equal than others’, George Orwell and “Ask not what your country can do for you,ask what you can do for country” Kennedy or Cicero . Politics ,nice work,enough said!
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Interesting. Did anyone notice that the board just purchased weigh scales for their waste collection operation from a multi-national company for $70,000 more than the bid from a local company?
The local company supplies truck scale to the Greater Vancouver regional district and many others BC and Alberta, so quality was not the issue.
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