Kelowna city council's decision to usher in a pay raise for themselves while residents are 'struggling' is unacceptable, says B.C.'s director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Kelowna's mayor is defending the hefty pay hike city council approved for itself on Monday. Tom Dyas says the increase was long overdue but as Klaudia Van Emmerik reports the Canadian Taxpayers Federation doesn't see it that way, instead calling it unacceptable, especially given the economic times.Kelowna city council’s decision to usher in a pay raise for themselves while their constituents are “struggling” to make ends meet is unacceptable, says B.C.
It was about a decade ago when the council of the day decided it was going to use consumer price indexing as a measure of pay increases. But Dyas said that formula simply doesn’t work and that’s why Kelowna politicians have fallen behind. This follows along with concerns raised during the meeting that low pay would amount to fewer qualified candidates in the years ahead.
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