Councillor Miriam Mutton is looking for a ‘pay increase’ for members of council. She relates what councillors are paid for their services to ‘regular increases for its [the Municipal Council’s] staff.’ This is nonsense. Councillors receive honoraria; council staff are paid salaries. An honorarium and a salary are not the same.
To parody Giuseppe in The Gondoliers, the culminating pleasure that I treasure beyond measure is the gratifying feeling of being in agreement with Mayor Peter Delanty. He disagrees with Councillor Mutton and one has to agree with him. Remuneration for councillors should be decided by the citizens of Cobourg.
If Councillor Mutton believes that remuneration for those who serve should be equated with services rendered she should stick to her business of landscape architecture. What is a town councillor worth – $30,000, $50,000, $100,000 a year? If that’s her idea of payment for services rendered she had best apply for employment with the town and leave the serious business of volunteer service to those best able to carry the burden.
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Academy has been used in Scotland for some decades. Our previous government peppered with socialist Scots would have imported it.
Colin MacMillan
That’s the trouble with today’s compulsive seekers after public office: they have the barefaced gall to expect the rest of us to reward them for the tencity of their pursuit. I think the anarchists said it best – don’t vote; it only encourages them.