Dear Editor
It was with a sigh of relief that we read that Burnaby city councillors and other city staff (some 700 of them) earned the modest sum of $70,000 per annum (before considering various write-offs and the mystical/mythical “returning allowance”). We are given to wonder if this has anything to do with Maclean’s magazine’s honorific of Burnaby as being the country’s “Best Run City” designation, some years back?
All told, $153.83 million, last year!
If that weren’t enough, we are absolutely giddy when made aware that school district salaries (2015) added up to about $170 million, before expenses.
Especially given that provincial exams are to be done away with, leaving parents with little to judge as to whether they are getting value for money. If I were a betting man I would give you good odds, they aren’t.
Larry Bennett, Burnaby
