City of North Vancouver council is starting the year with a small bump in pay.
Council members quickly and without discussion voted Monday night to increase their pay by 1.33 per cent.
The city uses a formula that takes into account one third of the annual increase negotiated with the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 389, one third of the increase for the International Association of Firefighters local 296 and one third of Vancouver’s consumer price index increase for the previous year. CUPE’s wages and the CPI both went up by two per cent in that period and the firefighters have been without a contract since before 2013, cutting them out of the formula.
The mayor’s total annual remuneration is $97,776, one third of that tax-free. Council members will receive $33,823, with the same one-third exemption.
Council voted in 2012 to tie council pay raises to the formula including the CPI, CUPE and IAFF increases. In previous years, council opted for increases using only CUPE as a benchmark or the average of increases approved by other councils in the Lower Mainland.
