Committee to compare N.B. council salaries with other municipalities

Members of the administration from the City of North Battleford will be checking in with other similar-sized municipalities in the province to compare how it pays its council members.

City Manager Randy Patrick proposed the review of indemnities for the council and mayor positions. Council approved the resolution at its recent meeting.

He raised the issue that the existing policy pertaining to council salaries is dated and actually isn’t being used. The policy indicates that council’s salary is based on a percentage of the city manager’s salary. Patrick said this policy also doesn’t make much sense as it can be quite arbitrary.  

As a result, he suggested an outside committee compare the salaries of councils in similar-sized municipalities so they could give their feedback to North Battleford council, in time for the 2019 budget deliberations. Administration will first collect the information from the other appropriate municipalities.