Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi’s yearly salary will increase to $55,785 from $35,436, while councillors will jump to $27,892 — half the mayor’s new pay — from the current $17,718
Colwood council has unanimously agreed to give themselves a generous bump in pay — though it comes in lower than what was previously planned.Staff has been directed to draw up a bylaw that will be adopted in the next few months. The increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, and pay will increase annually based on the consumer price index for Greater Victoria.
MacDonald said comparative factors included population and geographic area, population densities, operating budgets and annual expenditures and service responsibilities. But in December, a few months after the civic election, when Kobayashi successfully unseated Rob Martin as mayor after campaigning in part on quashing the remuneration formula, council repealed the pay increases and brought in the consultant for another look at compensation.“This was an intense discussion … this is the only place I know of where you can approve your own wages,” he said. “It’s the weirdest thing. Municipal government is different to me. It’s never a win-win situation.
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