By Mark Squibb/January 20, 2023
Members of council and City management staff are getting a slight pay increase.
During the January 10 meeting, council approved a two percent remuneration increase for management employees and Council effective December 22, 2022 and retroactive to July 1, 2022.
“As a part of the budget process, council considered the appropriate cost of living increase, and again that’s for non-bargaining employees, which includes council renumeration,” explained councillor Jim Locke, who added that non-bargaining wages had been frozen since Budget 2021.
“With the rising cost of living, its important to ensure that wages reflect the current environment,” said Locke. “It was determined that a two percent cost of living increase was appropriate.”
He noted that, as the increase is retroactive to July 1, it will coincide with unionized worker wage increases that were borne out of collective bargaining this past summer.
Deputy Mayor Nicole Kieley seconded the motion, and the motion passed unanimously.
Mayor Dave Aker allowed that a two percent rise “was a very reasonable percentage increase.”
Aker then noted that though the motion was only just now tabled, the actual increase was built into Budget 2023, approved back in December.
