Editor: Kudos to councillors Ryan Doyle, Michael Bondy and Rhonda Jubenville for proposing a five-per-cent voluntary reduction in their salary of $36,900 per year.
That amounts to a whopping $1845 cut. Are you sure you can survive that much of a cut? That means your salary would only be $35,055.
Plus catered meals, security guards et al.
And, you (councillors) still have the “right” to vote for your own salary increases?
Who’s bright idea was that? Oink, oink.
Before you implement such a drastic change, please be sure it won’t make you homeless and on the streets, like so many of your constituents increasingly are.
The preliminary view of the tax increase for 2025 could be more than nine per cent. Colour me cynical but to me and everyone I talk to, such an increase is criminal.
I repeat my offer to serve as councillor for $10,000 annual salary. And in good faith, let’s reduce that by ten per cent, down to $9,000 per year.
Bryan Marino
Chatham
