Remuneration decision averted

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But the Council of the day wanted to have a review of the process.

Last night, Council heard two possible options for determining the pay for Mayor and Council.

Option 1: Update the Peer Municipalities in the Council Remuneration Bylaw

The first option presented is to maintain the current framework set out in the Council Remuneration Bylaw, but direct staff to review the peer municipalities referenced in the Bylaw with a view to determining if changes should be made to the peer municipality list. The intent would be to remove and/or replace one or more cities on the list with other cities that are more similar to the City of Prince George in terms of population, trends or challenges. Under this option, staff would return a report to Council with the findings of that research, and present Council with recommendations to amend the Bylaw accordingly.

Option 2: Establish a New Method to Adjust Mayor and Council Remuneration

The second option presented is to amend the Council Remuneration Bylaw by removing the references to the advisory committee quadrennial review and peer municipalities and instead of forming that advisory committee, provide for automatic future annual adjustments to Mayor and Council remuneration based on one of the following:

(a) the currently established formula for annual adjustments as set out in the Bylaw; or

(b) the annual rate of change as adjusted by the Consumer Price Index, British Columbia, over the previous 12 months; or

(c) the annual increases provided to Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA’s); or

(d) the annual increases provided to Members of Parliament (MP’s).

There was much discussion amongst the new Mayor and Council around the need to maybe revisit the peer municipalities, with City Manager Walter Babicz noting the list was “dated.”

It was Councillor Kyle Sampson who noted it was not an issue to be made in haste and introduced a motion to give the third party committee more teeth in the decision make ing process in terms of Council remuneration.

Council has sent Administration back to look at ways to rejig the bylaw to that committee more decision-making authority.