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Pay plan for board members
• By Louis Day
CITY COUNCILLORS could
face a financial dilemma this
year: Sacrifice some of their
salary for lower paid community
board members.
The Remuneration Authority,
which sets
the pay of city
councillors and
community
board members,
said if the city
council wished
Andrew
Turner
Sara
Templeton
to increase community
board
remuneration
following the
October 12
elections, it
would have to
come from the
money allocated
towards the
salaries of city
councillors.
After the elections,
councils
around New
Zealand will allocate their governance
pools, deciding on the
salaries of city councillors and if
any money from the pool will be
put aside for community board
members.
Deputy Mayor and Banks
Peninsula Ward city councillor
LOW PAY: Banks Peninsula Community Board member John
McLister is not running in the local body elections because of
concerns over money and time.
Andrew Turner, who is paid
$118,220, said he would support
a decision to sacrifice the salaries
of city councillors to supplement
the Banks Peninsula Community
Board.
“I think the level of pay for the
Banks Peninsula Community
Board is not adequate and is certainly
out of line when compared
to other city boards,” he said.
Heathcote Ward city councillor
Sara Templeton, who is paid
$102,400, said she would also be
open to city councillor salaries
being used to better remunerate
the board. She is concerned the
current model was preventing
people from running for community
boards.
“We need to enable a wide
range of people to stand for our
community boards, not just
in Banks Peninsula but across
the city, part of that is better
remuneration,” she said.
Four members of the Banks
Peninsula Community Board
told the Bay Harbour News they
may not stand in the local body
elections due to concerns over
the money they receive and the
time pressures they face.
Banks Peninsula board members
– excluding the chairwoman
and city councillors – currently
receive $9670 a year. That is
less than half the $24,098 paid
to Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board members.
Banks Peninsula chairwoman
Pam Richardson is paid $19,342,
while Halswell-Hornby-
Riccarton Community Board
chairman Mike Mora ($48,196).
The current remuneration
model is set by population, so
boards with larger populations
get better remuneration.
Banks Peninsula Community
Board member John McLister
said the remuneration board
members received was
“ridiculously low” for the
amount of work they have to do.
“I will not run because
financially, it is harmful,” he
said. “I don’t think we do less
than the inner city community
boards and I don’t think they
have the complex issues that we
have.”
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NEW CHANGING ROOM
A new changing facility has been
proposed for Sumner Beach. The
planned site for the facility is on
The Esplanade, near the existing
toilet block. It will be made from
stainless steel and will have
four separate changing cubicles
with a rubber mat floor. Public
submissions close on May 27 and
can be made on the city council’s
Have Your Say page.
PLAN APPROVED
The landscape plan for Scott
Park has been approved by the
Linwood-Central-Heathcote
Community Board. The plan
will be implemented in stages
as funding becomes available.
Heathcote Ward city councillor
Sara Templeton said the board
was looking forward to tidying
up the park for all groups and
members of the public who go
there.
SUMNER CAR FIRE
Firefighters were called to a car
fire at St Leonards Square in
Sumner on Monday morning.
Firefighters attended the fire at
about 3am and took 3min to put
it out. No one was in the car.
The cause of the fire is unknown
and has been referred to police.
Firefighters were alerted to the
fire after a neighbour heard a loud
bang and saw the Mazda station
wagon ablaze.
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