BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter was sent in response to an article about Simcoe County council approving an incremental raise for council members over the next three years.
So, Simcoe County council, an indirectly elected body, is raising its 32 councillors’ basic annual pay by 246 per cent over three years? (My math: a raise from $12,054 to $41,717.)
Where is the public outrage over this misuse of taxpayers’ money?
These council members are also paid separately as mayors or deputy mayors of individual municipalities, by the way.
Part of the problem is that county council is considered an “upper-level” regional body that often escapes scrutiny by local residents.
At the local level, councillors would not get away with this sudden, extravagant move.
James Dalziel
Collingwood, Ont.
