Mapleton council approved a pay increase for itself and staff at its June 14 council meeting.
Council passed a bylaw giving everyone a raise of 2.5 per cent.
It has become common over the years that councils in Wellington County take the same pay increase that they give to their staff.
The raises to staff are retroactive to Jan. 1, but council raises took effect only upon passing of the bylaw.
Mayor Bruce Whale will be paid $15,655, and councillors will be paid $12,176. That pay includes all council and committee of the whole meetings, as well as all special meetings for which the mayor has requested all councillors attend.
The mayor’s base pay last year was $15,273 and for councillors it was $11,879.
The mayor and council will receive a fee for extra committee meetings and for attendance at conferences and seminars. They will receive $120 per full day, $70 per half-day meeting, and $50 for a night meeting.
Councils are not permitted to divulge the actual pay for employees under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Instead, those salaries are presented as a range, and the actual pay depends on where each employee sits within five different sections on a salary grid.
Chief Administrative Offi-cer Patty Sinnamon is paid a range of $46.09 to $53.04 per hour for a 35 hour work week. That means a salary range of $82,056 to $96,532.
Public Works Director Larry Lynch is the only top executive who works a 40 hour week. His hourly rate ranges from $35.22 to $41.43. That is an annual pay range of $73,257 to $86,174.
Finance Director Mike Givens has the same hourly rate, but works a 35 hour week. His annual pay range is $64,100 to $75,402.
The senior services coordinator, deputy-treasurer, deputy-clerk, facilities manager and building inspector all have an hourly range of $25.36 to $29.83 and an 35 hour work week.
The township’s bookkeeper, facilities maintenance manager, fleet safety manager, parks and cemeteries manager, and the operations and construction manager are all paid a range from $22.89 to $26.93 per hour for a 35 hour work week.
Equipment operators in Mapleton work a 40 hour week and have an hourly pay range of $17.96 to $21.13.
That pay range also applies (at varying hours per week) to seasonal equipment operators, the finance clerk, assistant arena manager, the administrative assistant at the seniors’ centre, and administration assistants in categories one and two.
An arena attendant is paid from $15.50 to $18.23 per hour, and crossing guards are paid a range of $13.03 to $15.33 for 150 hours a year.
The township fire chief is paid an hourly range of $32.75 to $38.53 per hour for a 35 hour week.
The township has a points system for its firefighters.
Those include one point for:
– responding to a call;
– going to the call;
– staying for clean-up;
– training sessions before 7:15pm;
– training sessions before 8pm; and
– monthly meetings.
There are two points allotted for attending monthly mutual aid meetings and another two points for weekend truck checks.
The point value is not to go below $10 per hour, and a firefighter is allowed $20 per hour after being at a scene of a call for over two hours. The total allotted for points for 2011 is $115,000.
The total set for the $20 per hour rate is $10,000.
The fire fighters receive the same per diem for meetings as council does, except those for which points are accumulated.
The total cost for all wages for the fire department, including the chief, is estimated to be $171,900.
