The Metro Vancouver board of director's chair and vice-chair are attending more meetings and need more compensation, according to a report to the board.
On Friday, Metro Vancouver’s board of directors will debate not only how to tax the region’s property owners for an extraordinary $2.8-billion cost overrun at the North Shore wastewater treatment plant, they will also decide if the chair and vice-chair ought to be granted a further $51,450 in addition to their regular salaries that are pegged to inflation annually.
Right now, the chair and vice-chair are paid for a maximum of 18 additional meetings annually, with compensation set at 0.5 per cent of their annual salary.The 18-meeting cap was imposed in 2007 in part to prevent abuse, Shermer’s report to the board notes. The current but outgoing chair is George Harvie, Delta’s mayor. Last month members of Delta city council voted to remove him from the position citing a lack of cooperation on his part when handling municipal matters.
Metro Vancouver taxpayers forked over $17,336 to fly Harvie to Brisbane, whereas they paid only $9,166 for vice-chair John McEwan and $10,165 for finance chair Brad West, to attend the Asia Pacific Cities Summit.
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