Alastair Bourne's excellent letter prompts one to ask what can be done about these obscene salaries. One suggestion is to get rid of the Higher Salaries Commission, whose only function seems to be to keep ramping up the incomes of the highest paid bureaucrats.
By their very nature bureaucrats are impelled to build empires, so they appoint middle management, all adding to the cost of the operation they are supposed to run. This is meant to be controlled by our elected councillors and mayor but are they competent to do so and do they have the bottle to stand up to bullying employees?
Unfortunately it seems that too many citizens vote on face or name recognition but is being a superannuated TV presenter or sports star a qualification for election?
John Wightman, Avenues.
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Salaries at TCC
Posted on 11-03-2012 09:31 | By Murray.Guy
This is meant to be controlled by our elected councillors and mayor ... the salary of the City Council CEO, Mr Ken Paterson, is the only salary determined by the elected members. Elected members, however, could influence salaries by passing a resolution that capped the total salary spend. The CEO would have to either reduce staff or re-juggle salaries. A very real risk and cost to our community is the salaries and conditions applied by CCO's as these are set by the CCO Board with NO reference to Council! This must change.
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Posted on 15-03-2012 22:29 | By algail
Here is a typical day for a councilor in England and they are paid a pittance for this work. The person here is my sister a councilor in the Aylsbury / Bucks districts. Read on and compare with what councilors do in NZ for their huge stipends. My sister earns around 14.000 pounds a year for these long days. Long day. Started with a site visit 9am to the area where there is a proposal to build 2400 houses. Very chilly. We then went to the office for lunch before starting the meeting at 1.00 pm. We finished at. 7.30pm with a decision to support and delegate two officers to sort out some legal complications. Then straight out again for the Mentmore parish council meeting. Home just before 10.00 pm. Off to bed. Bye Posted by Alastair Bethlehem
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Posted on 15-03-2012 22:33 | By algail
Here is a typical day for a councilor in England and they are paid a pittance for this work. The person here is my sister a councilor in the Aylsbury / Bucks districts. Read on and compare with what councilors do in NZ for their huge stipends. My sister earns around 14.000 pounds a year for these long days. Long day. Started with a site visit 9am to the area where there is a proposal to build 2400 houses. Very chilly. We then went to the office for lunch before starting the meeting at 1.00 pm. We finished at. 7.30pm with a decision to support and delegate two officers to sort out some legal complications. Then straight out again for the Mentmore parish council meeting. Home just before 10.00 pm. Off to bed. Bye
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