Council Hears Details of Council and Committee Remunerations

In City Hall, Local

By Cecilia Nasmith/Today’s Northumberland
A breakdown of the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on council and committees was broken down in a report to Cobourg council at its April meeting.

Council cost $245,585.48 for remuneration and $11,785.78 for expenses. This breaks down to Mayor Lucas Cleveland’s $54,216 remuneration (with $5,195.71 for expenses), Deputy Mayor Nicole Beatty’s $36,485.17 (with expenses of $2,884.22), and the councillors. Brian Darling and Randy Barber each got remuneration of $31,421.85 (with expenses of $2,246.64 and $1,459.21 respectively), while Aaron Burchat, Adam Bureau and Miriam Mutton each got remuneration of $30,656.27 (with no expenses paid in these cases).

On the Police Service Board, Councillors Beatty and Bureau got no remuneration, but did submit for expenses – $1,484.77 and $1,622.12 respectively. Members Dean Pepper and Sean Graham each got remuneration of $7,706.24 (plus expenses of $4,553.89 and $3,006.75 respectively), and Ronald Kerr got remuneration of $9,633.08 and expenses of $3,619.39.

No councillors sit on the Committee of Adjustment. Robert Marr got remuneration of $850, with $750 each for members Terry Brown, Peter Delanty, David Deter and Brian Murphy. Only Murphy received expenses, totalling $2,095.12.

Mayor Cleveland received $3,501 for his service on the Town of Holdings Inc. and $23,242.44 for his service on Northumberland County council (with expenses of $7,191.01). Deputy Mayor Beatty got no remuneration for county-council service but did receive expenses of $407.80.

For the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority, Councillors Barber and Mutton received remuneration of $525 and $600 respectively (and expenses of $104.94 and $133.43 respectively).

In all, these payments represent in $301,224.48 in remunerations and $35,993.99 in expenses.

Such a report is required to be made public annually under the Municipal Act, and it was received without comment by council.

Cecilia Nasmith
Author: Cecilia Nasmith

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