It cost taxpayers $690,685 last year to pay salaries, benefits and other costs for Wellington County council.
The 16-member council had a total salary of $501,253, total benefits of $82,325 and total expenses of $107,107 – bringing the grand total to $690,685.
Warden Joanne Ross-Zuj received pay of $76,953. That is broken down into a salary of $51,302, and $25,651 in a municipal allowance that is considered incidence to her duties as a warden. Her total salary and benefits were $86,338, and she had expenses of $19,781, for a total of $106,120.
That $25,953 is actually part of the salary, but there is a bylaw that states one-third of council pay shall be considered expenses incident to the discharge of their duties and thus is tax free.
Benefits in the report were deemed to include the employer portion of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), as well as dental and extended health coverage. Not all councillors received the same amount in benefits.
The remaining councillors received, in order of salary (total pay of their deemed salary and municipal allowance), benefits, expenses and total:
– Barb McKay, $28,286 in salary and allowance, $5,823 in benefits, expenses of $8,226, for a total of $42,335;
– Brad Whitcombe, $28,286, $5,823 in benefits, expenses of $8,067, totaling $42,177;
– Bob Wilson, $28,286, $5,823, $7,828, for a total of $41,938;
– John Green, $28,286, $5,823, $7,211, for $41,320;
– Chris White, $28,286, $5,823, $6,701 and $40,810;
– David Anderson, $28,286, $5,823, $6,186 and $40,296;
– Lynda White, $28,286, $2,874, $8,069 and $39,229;
– Gord Tosh, $28,286, $5,823, $5,095 and $39,205;
– Mike Broomhead, $28,286, $5,823, $5,021 and $39,131;
– Jean Innes, $28,286, $5,823, $4,026 and $38,136;
– Walter Trachsel, $28,286, $$4,064, $5,763 and $38,114;
– Carl Hall, $28,286, $3,874; $5,525 and $37,686;
– Councillor Rod Finnie, $28,286, $1,948, $4,760 and $34,995;
– Mark MacKenzie $28,286, $1,948, $4,680 and $34,914; and
– Lou Maieron, $28,286, $5,823, $169 and $34,279.
Six members of the accessibility advisory board were paid a total of $4,024.
Five members of the library board were paid a total of $3,5033. In both cases the payments were for meetings attended and expenses.
