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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
They only look dumb if you don't actual follow what happened.
Sutherland talks about a 2.6% potential increase and proposes a pay freeze. Not Farkas.
Someone else says that they may be looking at a reduction anyways (ergo a payfreeze would be beneficial), they defeat the motion. Everyone agrees that they won't take a pay increase, but will wait for actual numbers. Extremely reasonable.
There's really three sides of the debate:
- Those who don't think that the council should have any right to adjust their pay, good or bad and leave it out of their hand. (Perfectly reasonable position)
- Those who don't want to get a payraise. (Perfectly reasonable position)
- And Farkas' side which is being a dingle.
Some of the council members already donate a bunch of their salary back anyways. |
Well you kind of forgot the part about everyone accusing Farkas of lying and then running him out of chambers. That part also happened. Farkas was also the one proposing a wait period to get the proper numbers. The other 9 decided to vote based on the existing incorrect numbers.
I just think it's a bit easy to say Farkas was the one grand standing when he was correct.
I don't care at all about the salaries even though they are higher than any other big city in Canada. It just bugs me when it's a popularity contest and everybody has to play the game the same way.