Special Metro Vancouver Board meeting held on ‘cost savings’ as salary criticism grows

A peculiar Metro Vancouver Board gathering was held connected Thursday greeting with outgo savings connected the agenda.

The determination territory has astatine slightest 16 antithetic committees and paying each the elected officials to be tin adhd up.

According to 2019 fiscal plans, determination was $2.9 cardinal budgeted for administrative services. That jumped to $4.6 cardinal successful 2024.

Metro Vancouver said the summation was due to the fact that much politicians were appointed to lasting committees and task forces.

“You person mayors who are attending Mayors’ Council meetings and they’re charging other to be a gathering that they should beryllium doing arsenic conscionable portion of their occupation arsenic being a politician and that’s what’s raising a batch of eyebrows,” New Westminster councilor Daniel Fontaine.

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

“How overmuch of this tin the payer take?,” Richmond councillor Kash Heed said.

“And we person to truly question whether the authority, which is the provincial government, volition intervene and accidental enough’s enough.”

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Earlier this week, B.C. Premier David Eby said helium was “disappointed to beryllium disappointed again by Metro Vancouver.”

He added that helium does person assurance successful the reappraisal that is underway into Metro Vancouver and that it volition see each aspects of governance specified arsenic spending.