Revisit raise
Having been away, I recently caught up on past issues of the Peak and saw that council came up with an “innovative “ formula to pay themselves 58 per cent of the average pay [“Council seeks pay parity,” February 15] of the Powell River workforce.
Did anyone stop to think that this puts council in a direct conflict of interest when it comes to negotiating union and non-union salaries of municipal employees?
There is no longer any incentive to cap municipal wages or salaries since any increase to city employees, who represent a substantial portion of the Powell River workforce, influences an automatic increase to council and mayor.
Really? I urge council to revisit this decision now.
Milda Karen-Byng
Westminster Street
Corrupt agenda
The bluster and blather of big money is notably evident in this election campaign [“Forum addresses key community concerns,” April 26].
In this province of homelessness, food banks, the working poor and resulting child poverty, it tells you who benefited from a so-called “successful” BC Liberal economy, whose interests were actually represented and who profited at the expense of the interests and rights of the people of this province.
The province-wide proliferation of moneybag campaign strategy is clear evidence of who gained from a corrupt agenda of self-serving privatization, who betrayed the people of this province and who left honourable governance and the common good in tatters.
Lynn Smyth
Okeover, BC
