By Cheryl Jahn

Exempt Wages at the City under scrutiny

Sep 30, 2020 | 3:29 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The compensations packages for exempt staff at the City is coming under the microscope, in line with a decision of Council.

“We need to be fiscally responsible all the time. That’s why I’ve been working on this for the past two years,” says Councillor Kyle Sampson, who raised the issue of the exempt staff survey at the last Council meeting. “But we really need to sharpen our pencils right now with all that’s going on.”

“All that’s going on” is COVID-19, which is costing the City a fortune in lost revenues.

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The exempt staff survey was a policy introduced in 2011, which also identifies the need to do the review every three years. It has been three years since the last one was done.

The survey involves comparing the wages and benefits with nine other BC communities, but there was some discussion during the Council meeting that the pandemic may make meeting the December deadline.

However, Council unanimously voted to have the survey done by the end of December.