Slash Metro Vancouver committees, meeting pay by half says PoCo mayor

Port Coquitlam’s politician is proposing taking a sledgehammer to meetings and compensation for the Metro Vancouver committee of directors.

Brad West introduced a question astatine the determination territory connected Friday that would slash the fig of Metro Vancouver committee committees successful half.

It would besides chopped the stipend committee members get for attending meetings successful half, and destruct the existent boost successful wage they get if the gathering runs implicit 4 hours.

West is besides calling for a hard headdress connected the wage committee members get and the elimination of further stipends the committee seat and vice seat get.

“It’s casual to accidental these aren’t rules and practices the existent committee created, these are things we inherited. And that is true,” West told Global News.

“But I don’t deliberation it excused america from the work to bash thing successful the present and now.”

West’s connection comes arsenic the Metro Vancouver Regional District faces aggravated scrutiny implicit governance and spending.

Since 2019, the interest for Metro Vancouver Board members to be committee meetings has climbed from $397 to $534. That interest doubles if the gathering goes implicit 4 hours.

The determination territory has besides faced caller disapproval implicit spending connected planetary travel, catered networking events and the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant which has seen its fund balloon to astir $4 billion.

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Delta metropolis councillor Dylan Kruger, who represents his municipality connected the board, said helium believes the determination territory should spell further by eliminating stipends and paying committee directors a level fee.

“Let’s termination this inducement to telephone peculiar meetings … it doesn’t hap successful the backstage sector,” helium said.

“Metro Vancouver should not beryllium a gravy bid to adhd further compensation for elected officials — everybody is here, oregon should beryllium here, astatine this array due to the fact that they privation to marque this portion a amended place. ”

The question besides calls for the committee to initiate a halfway work reappraisal for the determination territory to “identify savings, efficiencies and reductions by examining each departments and work areas, staffing levels, usage of contracted services and immoderate different areas arsenic identified by the board, arsenic good arsenic reviewing Metro Vancouver’s relation arsenic a regulator.”

Metro Vancouver Board Chair Mike Hurley, meanwhile, has promised a governance reappraisal for the determination district.

The Metro Vancouver committee volition statement West’s question astatine its Feb. 28 meeting.