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Originally Posted by Bunk
Farkas just got booted from a Council meeting on a 14-1 vote for posting (clearly deliberately) false statements on Facebook about Council pay, and refusing to "apologize to the meeting".
He'll love it - fits his martyr complex beautifully.
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If I'm following this saga correctly, it would appear that Farkas may have been correct in posting the numbers he did:
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In an email sent to council members and the mayor Thursday morning, the CFO apologized for the “confusion” on council renumeration.
“I am sorry that there is some confusion around how council members’ compensation is calculated,” wrote Male.
She went on to say that since 2012, the city’s human resources department has used a formula to calculate annual changes to council pay based on a 12-month average of Alberta’s average weekly earnings.
Male said her suggestion that council pay would decrease was based on a different policy, one that made a simpler September-to-September comparison of weekly earnings.
“It is obviously essential that we determine which documents accurately reflect council’s most recent decision on this topic,” Male wrote, adding that she hopes to investigate further and return with a report to council in the new year.
Finalized wage numbers for the fall were released by Statistics Canada Thursday.
The formula used by HR, and cited by Farkas, would yield a pay bump of 2.37 per cent in 2019, increasing councillor salaries from $113,325.63 to $116,011.45.
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...hes-vindicated
I'm certainly not a fan of Farkas' brash antics on council, but it appears that he was the only one out of 15 members paying appropriate attention to detail on this matter.