City councillors being paid based on attendance

City councillors yesterday learned that their monthly stipends are being adjusted based on their attendance at statutory and committee meetings, according to the directions of acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba.

Since last year, the mayor and councillors of Georgetown have been complaining about unexplained deductions from their stipends. In February of this year, Mayor Hamilton Green wrote to the press saying Sooba had for several months been deducting monies from the meagre stipends of both him and councillors. He stressed