Job Well Done? Councillors Set to Pocket Pay Rise

FRIDAY 31 JULY 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Responding to the report that Auckland’s Councillors and Mayor Len Brown look set for a 2.3 per cent pay increase, just days after voting to increase the average rates burden by 9.9 per cent, Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesperson, Carmel Claridge, says:

“This is an insult to Aucklanders who are suffering under a completely unjustifiable rates burden. At a time when Aucklanders are having to go without in order to meet this increase, the Remuneration Authority seem to want to congratulate councillors on a job well done.”

“In what other organisation would you give a pay rise to bosses who have blown out the budget and left the public picking up the pieces?”

"With his shattered promise to keep rates rises to 2.5%, Len Brown should turn down this pay rise."

ENDS