Councillors were only a few dollars apart in individual total spending in 2011.
The township treasurer’s Feb. 14 report included a remuneration summary for all councillors last year.
Mayor Bruce Whale, as expected, was the most costly councillor at $18,938. That includes a salary of $15,640, just over $3,000 more than councillors, who are paid $12,164.
Whale also had meeting expenses of $570, charged $240 for convention and seminar costs, had registration fees of $1,067, hotel expenses of $55, mileage and parking fees of $290 and meal expenses of $1,073.
The expenses of the four councillors were within a few hundreds dollars of each other.
Those expenses, salary, meeting per diem fees, convention and seminar fees and pay, registration, hotel costs, mileage and parking, and meal costs, in that order, are:
– James Curry, $12,164, $920, $480, $915, $327, $329, $119, miscellaneous of $23, for a total of $15,279;
– Mike Downey, $12,164, $1,010, $720, $813, $56, $356, $182, for a total of $15,303;
– Neil Driscoll, $12,164, $550, $600, $843, $752, no mileage or parking charges, $199, for a total of $15,110; and
– Andy Knetsch, $12,164, $410, $960, $843, $752, $315, $100, for a total of $15,547.
Mapleton also has six committees whose members receive remuneration and expenses, but that bill was not very large. Nobody billed for any expenses, and the total cost of all six committees was $5,350. Further, one committee did not operate this year and its members were unpaid.
Two of the three cemetery committee members, Jean Campbell and Kathryn Fowler, were paid $100 for attending meetings, and Lorrie Spaling received zero.
Two members of the committee of adjustment, Kathleen Ayres and Floyd Schieck, were paid $210 each, and two more, Carl Israel and Peg Schieck, received $140 each.
The election audit committee did not operate and cost nothing in 2011.
The Maryborough housing board had member Jean Campbell receive $450; Angela Claussen, $500; Kerry Doig, $550; and Sandy Vallance $600 for meetings.
The parks and recreation committee has six members. Five of them – Craven, Kelly Culp, Peg Schieck, Carla Schott and Spaling – were paid $300 each, while Arthur Freeman received $150.
There were four members on the property standards committee. Three of them, Ayres, Israel and Floyd Schieck were paid $210 for their attendance, and Peg Schieck received $70.
